Lockdown ideas to keep you busy at home!

 

Basics

- Learn to follow a recipe (scones, muffins, pancakes)

- Learn how to look after the house (cleaning, jobs - recycling, setting the table)

- Build fine motor skills  (drawing, cutting paper, crafts, art, chalk drawing)

- Keep a journal of daily activities, thoughts and wins.

- Stem challenges (building a tower, boat, building, bridge with items from around the house)

- Learn to tie your shoe laces

Oral Language

- Talk with your children. Ask them questions about how they are feeling and what they think about stuff.  Use the what, where, when, why and how questions to help them to extend their thinking and speech.

- Spend time colouring in with your child, check that they are using the correct pencil grip.

Cutting out

- Spend lots of time cutting pictures out of magazines and creating collages which you can talk and write about if you want to.  

- Create stories and books.

Playing Games

- Teach simple card games like memory and snap. 

- Play games like snakes and ladders with two dice so they have to add the numbers together.

Reading

Read to your child.  Or look at online websites  like https://www.storylineonline.net/ or http://www.scholastic.com/100BestReadAloudBooks/#logo that will read books to you for example storyline online where actors read the story.  Listen with your child and when the story is finished discuss: 
- What was the best bit? - Why
- Who were the characters?  
- What happened first, next and last?

Keep practicing the alphabet, the name of the letter, the sound it makes and a word that starts with that sound. 

Read to your child, have your child read to you. Let your child read to a teddy or favourite toy.

Maths 

We have recently been learning about shapes. Explore the shapes you have around your house and garden. Take photos of these shapes and discuss how many corners and sides it has.