Reception Home Learning Grid Spring 2 2018-19 You will receive a sticker for completing your homework At the beginning of each half term we provide a list of suggested activities for you to do with your child at home. These activities are designed to reinforce your child’s learning, develop their vocabulary, understanding and knowledge about the topics and curriculum areas we are covering in class. Over the half term, you and your child can choose to do as few or as many of these as you would like. As a guide, you might like to do one per week. Your child can record it in the homework book provided or in any way you choose – photographs (these can be uploaded onto your child’s online learning journal), drawing, writing etc. Please send the book to school when your child has completed an activity so the teacher can share and enjoy your child’s home learning. We will be sharing and celebrating children’s homework on Thursday afternoons. Can you follow baking instructions to make a superhero biscuit? Take a photo and put it in your book. Can you label your superhero? What is their superpower? Can you count in 10s? Use this video to help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs Can you use recycled materials to create a gadget for a superhero? Your superhero needs a new pose! Can you come up with one and take a picture or video to show us? Read a superhero story with your grown up. Can you discuss what has happened and come up with a different ending? Use one of your toys at home and create a parachute for them. Think about what materials you will need and what the parachute needs to be able to do. Take photos and put them into your book. Write the materials that have been used. Do you know a real life superhero (i.e. a doctor, a nurse, a relative)? Ask them some questions. Draw a picture and write a couple of sentences so that we can see what you have learnt? WANTED poster! Can you come up with a name for your villain? Why are they wanted? What is the reward to find them? We welcome you to upload your child’s work and achievements from home on EEXAT.

Last term we have learnt the following Tricky Words: Tricky words are frequently used words that the children cannot read and write by blending and listening for the sounds. They are words that need to be remembered. Children learn not only to read these words but also to write them. There is a lot of fun things you can do to help you practise: Listen to the Phase 3 Tricky Words song you love to sing in class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY Think up sentences with these words and have a go at writing them. Look for tricky words in the books and magazines you read at home. Use the phase 3 mat attached to re-cap some of the sounds and tricky words that we have been learning, give the children a chance to show off what they know! Numbers Can they order the numbers correctly 1-20. Can they order them counting backwards 20-1. Spelling bingo The old ones are the best! Playing games that help the children recognise the spelling words on sight can really help. The more they see a word the more familiar it becomes and the more likely they are to remember it; if they can visualise it, they are more likely to spell it correctly. Print and cut out the words your child has to learn. Draw out a bingo board and write some of the spellings in the boxes. This works best with more than one player, so see if you can rope in someone else to play. Every time your child ‘gets’ a spelling word, go through the spelling together and then cover it and ask them to spell it again.