Dear Parents and Carers
Here are some suggestions from your child’s teacher of activities to help you keep your children occupied during the day. Please remember that they are indeed only suggestions and we do not want you to feel pressured in any way to turn your home into a home school. Do what works for you and your family and let us worry about getting your children quickly back up to speed when everything returns to normal. If you do only one thing, it would be best to keep your child reading. Reading to them, listening to them read and talking about what’s been read will be hugely beneficial. Beyond that, do what is easy, stress free and comfortable for you and your family.
Reading
We encourage you to read every day for 20 minutes to an adult at home.
• Take time to share a book together (you can read/ listen to an audiobook or watch a story online together). Amazon have many free audiobooks that can be accessed through
www.amazon.co.uk/Audiobooks • In the absence of reading books, you could access books similar to the ones you bring home
www.oxfordowl.co.uk• Find the definitions of words that are unfamiliar- you could use a dictionary or a google search.
Maths
It would be great if you could ( as often as possible) use these sights to keep your maths skills sharp
History
(and we’ve snuck in a bit of writing)
The Vikings are absolutely amazing. Why not…
• Make a fact file including all of the things you have discovered about the Vikings! Can you include the 5 w’s?
- Who were the Vikings?
- Where did they live?
- When did they settle in Britain?
- What did they do?
- Why did they settle in Britain?
• Make a model of your longship out of junk and recycling!
- What do they look/ sound/ smell like?
- How do they feel about their life in Britain?
• Write a story/ draw a storymap set on your longship, including your Viking character.
For Fun and Fitness