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.
Writing
Here are 2 versions of the Princess and Pea by Hans Christian Anderson you can watch.
This week you could…
• Write your own version of the story ( The Teacher and the Gherkin?)
• Write a playscript of the story (make your own props out of anything you’ve got lying about the house)
• Write diary entries as the characters in the story ( imagine how the characters might be feeling after different events take place in the story)
Spelling
If you have the spelling words sent home in your pack you could…
• practice them and write them in sentences.
• Use the internet or a dictionary to find the meanings of the ones you don’t know
• Use them to make your own word games, word searches, or cross words
Maths
It would be brilliant if you could…
• Practice your times tables every day. These can be practised by writing them by hand, or by using Times Table Rockstars.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Other
You could..
• Choose an activity from your Ancient Egypt activity sheet ( or make up your own!)