Year Reception Home Activities 1/06/20    

Week 8 

Here are 6 activities you can do throughout the week! You can always show me your efforts on Tapestry, I’d love to see! 

Keep well and remember to try and have some fun too! Miss Demetriou 

Subject  Activity     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This term our focus would have been writing narratives/sentences to 

get the children ready for year 1. I cannot stress how important it is 

for you to take the time to word build and sentence build. Use the 

sound mat provided to help you with this.  

Steps to writing:  

- Verbally compose a sentence 

- What is my first word 

- How can I spell it? Fred talk  

- Write down the word 

- What is my next word (say the sentence again, point out the 

second word) 

- Rpt. how will I spell that, let me use Fred talk  

- Follow through with these steps until you finish the sentence.  

 

This should be a ten minute activity. Start with a sentence and 

build this up as the weeks go on. 

 

Have a go at writing a sentence for this scene in the book:  

 

 

● What do you think the Gruffalo is saying to the Mouse?  

● What will the mouse reply? 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4u0TjAZ38 

 

 

 

 

Understandi

ng the 

World 

 

 

  

The mouse wants to trick the Gruffalo and has given him 

a fake map. The Gruffalo thinks he is going to find 

‘gingerbread mice’.  

 

Can you help create a map leading the 

Gruffalo around in a circle away from 

the mouse?  

 

To help you build up a map you 

might wish to complete this booklet 

on your visit to a woodland area (I 

will attach this to our class page).  

   

What will you need to include:  

- Trees: silver birch, oak, chestnut  

- Lake  

- Flowers - dandelions, daisies, buttercups  

- Snake  

- Fox 

- Owl 

- Mouse 

- A marked pathway  

- An x marking the spot where the gingerbread mice 

are 

 

I have included a map but you can 

create your own.  

 Whilst making your map I would 

like to also see some labels! I 

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Reading  

Here is a song to help with 

learning some previous red 

words. 

 

Let us go back to the start  and 

revise some of our red words.  Lets 

see how many you can 

remember- why not make 

your own snap cards to  help 

you practice! I will add  this 

resource to our class 

page. 

 

 

I have also attached another grid 

for you to work through and practice 

your new set of red words. Get your 

dice and colouring pencils ready and 

get reading :D . You could also play 

this on the computer, you will just 

need a dice and you will need to ‘fill’ 

the cell in wherever your dice lands. 

I will attach this to the class 

page.  

 

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/reading-robo

t You can even use this game to practise your red words on 

screen. Just type them in and have a go. 

 

Online Activities:  

can’t wait to see what you come up with.  

 

 

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https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/tricky-wor

d-trucks 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/flashcards

-time-challenge 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spooky Spellings:  

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.h

tml 

 

I have attached some examples of activities you can create at 

home to learn your red words. 

 

● Make some playdough and write the 

red words 

● Or place the 

red words on 

your 

staircase: 

 

 

 

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Phonics 

Phonics Ruth Miskin (RWI) - select the latest video  

After you complete the video, give your child some time to 

write the sound down. A great challenge will be to write a silly 

sentence using the learnt sound.  

  

Have a go at these games.  

  

 

Login to Phonics play: https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ 

Username: march20 

Password: home 

 

Online Activities:  

This game is so much fun, have 

another go!  

 

Click all of phase 3- to revise all 

your sounds. If you find this 

tricky click phase 2.  

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/grab-a-giggling-gr

apheme 

 

https://www.ictgames.com/phonicsPop/  

 

You can cater this game to  the 

sound of the day, orif you  find 

your child is struggling with a 

certain sound.  

 

 

Maths 

Please refer to My Maths for the next two activities 

- I understand some of these activities are tricky, so do 

what you can. It is the year 1 curriculum we are using, as 

there are no activities specifically for EYFS - Reception.  

 

Sharing  

This will be the new maths topic.The mathematical concept 

of sharing is all about splitting amounts into equal parts.  

  

 

 

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https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/fishy-phonics?phase=2  

 

 

Why not try this game! Practice reading words with your fred talk! 

 

 

 

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/alien-escape?phase=3 

 

Have a play of this game and 

work out how to spell the 

words.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Challenge : I will attach the 

challenge problems to the 

class page for you to 

complete. Along with some 

sharing activity cards.  

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Physical 

Education 

Fine Motor 

Development:   

Make another batch of playdough 

and have a go at this 

song/exercise.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PQ1VxpBtqQ&list=PLgNvw_fXU

zlKZ0mf76Jm07DdvdCQsqQuE&index=3  

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imhi98dHa5w  

 

Get your heart racing with  this 

dance!   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cool yourself down with this yoga sequence 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td6zFtZPkJ4&t=129s 

 

 

Religious 

Education 

 

Why Should We Care For Our Special World? 

 

Show pupils various images / videos of wonderful places in 

the world (Iguazu Falls, Machu Picchu, Niagara Falls and 

other waterfalls, Taj Mahal, beach, spring fields, seasonal 

pictures with snow, rain, storms, sun, etc.) 

What A Wonderful World !  

Top 10 Most Beautiful Places In The World 

● What can you see?  

● What do you like in the pictures?  

● What makes you say WOW? 

 

Explain how Christians believe that God made the world 

like this – amazing and full of good things. 

 

Contrast these images with ones of destruction. litter, 

overgrown derelict places/gardens etc  

What Have We Done! Shocking Images Show Earth 

Drowning in Plastic Pollution | Before The Flood  

● What differences can you see?  

● How do you feel when you see these pictures? 

 

Christians believe that God was the one who created the 

world and He wants people to help care for the world, 

just like a head teacher looks after school, a teacher 

looks after pupils, parents look after a family, a zoo 

keeper looks after animals etc. Christians believe God has 

given people the world to look after. Discuss how should 

you look after something you have been lent eg library 

books, toys, etc 

Who looks after you? (parents/carers, teachers, 

community, God) 

 

Activities:  

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● Make the world on a paper plate, using green and blue 

tissue paper, or by marbling with blue and green paint. 

Extend by sticking fish into the oceans and animals onto 

the land. Alternatively, make a 3D globe out of 

modelling clay or papier maché. Talk about why it’s 

important to keep the world special and clean. How 

would they feel if their art was spoilt? How do they 

think God would feel to see the earth being spoilt? 

  

● Make different 

animals out of recycled 

objects. Talk about where 

our rubbish goes if we 

don’t recycle it. What 

would happen if we ran out 

of space for all our 

rubbish? What would 

happen to our special 

world? How would that 

make you feel? How do you 

think God might feel? 

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 Challenge yourself and think 

about:  

- Where is your 

favourite place on 

Earth?  

- Which country will 

you like to learn 

about?  

- Which place will you like to visit the most?  

- Your favourite country is ..….?  

- I have family in ……?  

 

Finish off learning this song: 

Who put the colours in the rainbow  

This is one of my favourites. Can you come up with actions 

to help you learn this song?