This week was our first week of #lockdown in the UK and social distancing with kids although hard has been rewarding for us as a family. More time spent together playing, home learning and searching (for socks, toys, ourselves, space and God – the list can literally be endless). We’ve done so much thanks to the help of #JasperBean’s school teacher who has been an absolute rockstar! He’s provided us with weekly/daily home learnings that has guided us through these tough times. We really appreciate everything he has done and #JasperBean looks forward to receiving his daily emails giving us feedback about the things he has done. These are a few of the things we got up to this week.

Note: #JasperBean is in Reception (age 4-5: EYFS), therefore his home learning is specific to him/his age. I have received permission to share parts of his home learning plan from his teachers.

English

• Revised
  • Sounds ch, sh, th and ng and wrote sentences with these sounds (click on each phoneme for lesson packs on Twinkl)
  • Phase 2-3 sounds, tricky words and “what”, “out” & “so”
• Played “Captions to Picture” game on Twinkl (phase 2, phase 3)
• Phonics worksheets
• Watched “The Train Ride” and discussed it
  • Listed a few things we saw
  • Wrote a sentence about one of our experiences on the train
  • Drew a picture of a view from a train and wrote a sentence about it
    • You can get the book from here.
• Wrote about our favourite zoo animal
• Independent Reading
  • Bizzy Bear, Fun on the Farm
  • The Zoo
  • I can Fix it
  • Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you see?

Maths

• Watched Numberblocks on Doubling and did some worksheets
• Doubling with groups of toys, legos, food
• Sudoku

Lots of activities and worksheets on Twinkl and Mrs Mactivity.

Some activities

• Daily PE with Joe
• Painted a rainbow for the #rainbowtrail
• Built Duplo Train as “The Train Ride” activity
• Visited Chester Virtual Zoo
• Water/bubble play
• Trampolining
• Scooter racing
• Animal tracing in the sun
• Cooking

Board games

• Rollercoaster Challenge – a fun STEM toy that is 50% logic, 50% rollercoaster building.

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Thank you for reading and until next time…  have fun and happy social distancing!

Love MsMamaBean.

Disclaimer: English and Maths support links and suggestions are part of the children’s at-home learning plan provided by their teacher during social distancing/lockdown. I have only added supplement worksheets, reading and activities to support his learning.