If the school is closed here are some ideas for learning at home.
- Read every day – swap books if you can, use audio books too
- Practise any sounds/words in your book bag
- Practise spelling words – using different colour pens/pencils
- Keep a diary about the weather/thoughts and feelings/news
- Make your own story/cartoon strip about an adventure
- Measure items around the house/garden and record the heights. Compare the heights. Display information in a graph/diagram
- Make your own cards – thank you/birthday/Easter etc
- Use letters and pictures from magazines to create your own art work, poster or notice
- Follow a recipe and make something tasty. Cooking and baking are great opportunities for measuring, counting, reading and calculating time
- Draw/sketch a famous building or person
- Learn a new skill – knit or crochet, change a plug, use the washing machine, First Aid
- Improve a skill
- Digital skills – coding, make an iMovie, use apps like Book Creator, Chatterpix,
- Play pencil and paper games – Hangman, Bingo, Beetle, Battleships etc.
- Playing cards – play games, pairs, recognise number patterns
- Top Trumps cards – put in alphabetical order, compare height/length etc.
- Play a board game – Scrabble,Monopoly, Snakes and Ladders etc.
- Write a review of a book or film
- Listen to the radio or music
- Make a scrap book or personal project about an interest you have and use ICT (if you have access to it)
- Improve or learn to play a musical instrument
- Learn a new language or sign language
- Clean around the house
