EYFS
Please see below for activities that children can do at home, you can also access Tapestry to share the activities which your child is doing at home.
Cbeebies:
Interactive games:
Maths and Literacy
Free ebooks to read together
Videos to support Phonics teaching at home
Play games like:
- Snap – take it in turns to turn over the cards one and a time if the cards math shout snap and collect all the cards the winner is the player with the most cards at the end of the game.
- Matching pairs – lay cards face down on the table turn two over if they match keep them if not turn them back and play moves to the next person.
- Play ‘Kim’s game’. Put a few items on a tray (e.g. a crayon, an apple, a building brick, a toy car). Then look, cover, remember and check!
- Simon says – touch your head, touch your arm. Make it more challenging by asking children to stand behind / in front / next to / on top or under and item. Or add a maths twist Simon says find me a circle, square, 3 pencils, 2 cushions.
Board games like:
- Snakes and ladders – develops turn taking skills and counting
- Frustration - develops turn taking skills and counting
- Guess who – develops descriptive language and memory
- Hungry hippos – count how many balls you won who had the most?
- Buckaroo – develops coordination, finger and hand strength required to hold writing implements
- Jenga - develops coordination, finger and hand strength required to hold writing implements
- Pop up pirate - develops coordination, finger and hand strength required to hold writing implements
Playdough
Roll, pinch squeeze, flatten, cut (with scissors and knives), stretch