Mathematical development ideas

Count forwards and backwards to 20 from different starting points

• Count to 100.

• Count in 2s to 10 and count in 10s to 100.

• Count everything! Toys, pillows, shoes etc…

• Practise writing numbers to 20.

• Order number flashcards from 0 to 20.

• Add two numbers together. Lock the biggest number in your head and count on using your fingers. Add two

amounts of objects and count how many altogether.

• Sing number songs e.g. 5 little speckled frogs . ( You tube—counting songs for children).

• Recognising / matching / counting coins e.g. play ‘shops’.

• Time – talk about day time / night time and morning/afternoon. Recognise o’clock.

• Say the days of the week each morning and months of the year – What day was it yesterday? What day will it be to-

morrow? Sing our days of the week song ( tune— The Adams Family).

• Recognise and name 2D / 3D shapes: square, rectangle, triangle and circle. Cube, cuboid, cylinder and sphere.

• Hide objects under a blanket. ‘Close your eyes’. Take one away. How many are left?

• Play Simon Says – Focus on forwards, backwards, right and left. ‘Take 2 steps forwards.’ ‘Jump 3 times to the left.’

Sort objects – sort blue socks and red socks. Sort big shoes and small shoes. Sort coloured blocks.

Make repeating patterns using colours, toys, shoes, blocks – red car, blue car, green car, red car, blue car, green car …

Measure ingredients when cooking – heavy/. , temperature—hot/cold

• Capacity – use the language full, half full, half empty, empty - jugs /cups/pots and pans in the bath/sink

• Positional language - put the toy in/on/under/next to/behind/in front of a box , Turtle on Jit.

• Use the language ‘long’ and ‘short’ e.g. “find me something longer than this”

•nd things that are taller and shorter than you.

• measure objects in the house using lego blocks, hands etc. How long is the newspaper/sofa/rug?

• Make graphs and pictograms—hwb Jit

Websites

Topmarks—www.topmarks.co.uk.

Bee Bot app for computing (free),

code-a –pillar app.

ICT games for Literacy and Maths—www.ictgames.co.uk.

Cbeebies Numberblocks—www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks.

Www.twinkl.co.uk—UKTWINKLHELPS.

Hwb— j2launch—jit5—turtle, chart, pictogram.

You Tube—number songs and rhymes.

Literacy ideas

• Recognise their name and family names.

• Write their name and surname using the correct formation.

• Practise letter formation - holding the pencil correctly trace over and copy

letters .

• Recognise capital letters and match to lower case letters.

• Practise phonic recognition of phase 2 and 3 sounds—flashcards, Teach your

monster to read, phonics play, games on Topmarks.

• Identify sounds in CVC words—give the children a word like cat—can they hear what sound is at the start? Mid-

dle? End? Spell and write the word.

• Practise reading and spelling tricky words— words in B-link book, Spelling Blast on J2E.

• Bug Club book practice—read a book from allocated list and answer the questions.

• Listen to a range of stories – Discuss author, illustrator, title, blurb, ask children to point to and talk about a cer-

tain character, think what will happen next in the story. Can they read any of the words. Ask questions – What?

Who? Why? When? How? Where?

• Practise blending sounds together and then segmenting them (eg. blending sound, - t-i-n = tin , p-a-t = pat and

then segmenting sounds – tin ,robot talk what sounds can we hear t -i – n).

• Find rhyming words in stories—can they think of words that rhyme. Play rhyming and alliteration games, make

up silly sentences using the same sound “Silly Simon squashed a sausage” Think about what word sounds like

cat? Put a timer on a see how many you can think of – nonsense words are fun too!

• Keep a diary. Write a sentence about what you’ve enjoyed learning about every day. Ask your child to say the

sentence out loud and sound out each word as they write it. Remind them about capital letters to start, fingers

spaces and a full stop at the end. Draw a picture to illustrate your writing.

• Can they copy your writing? Words they find around the house/on the fridge/on the TV/on books?

• Make up a story and write it on Jit (HWB).

• Design and write birthday cards, thank you cards etc.

• Write messages to family and friends.

Websites:

www.topmarks.com Browse by age to see what games are available for ‘Early Years’ Age/ability appropriate games

to search for on topmarks.

Twinkl free resources available – Use code UKTWINKLHELPS on www.twinkl.co.uk to access the free resources.

www.phonicsplay.co.uk - use code USERNAME: march20 PASSWORD: home

Bug club—www.activelearnprimary.co.uk.

www.teachyourmonstertoread.com.

Songs and rhymes on You Tube.

www.lettersandsounds.com

Vooks storybooks—www.vooks.com

www.spellingshed.com

Alphablocks—www.bbc.co.uk./cbeebies/shows/alphablocks.

Expressive Arts and Design—(Creative Development)

• Blow paint using straws.

• Roll marbles over paint.

• Make musical instruments from household items and recycling

• Listen to different types of music – find out what everyone’s favourite song is.

• Collage making (ripping and sticking)

• Painting with unconventional tools e.g. forks, string, pasta, potato masher, leaves, twigs, stones, cotton

buds, cotton wool etc.

• Painting with brushes and water.

• Chalking letters, name, tricky words.

• Dance party in the living room! (lots of karaoke and dancing videos on YouTube—Just dance kids).

• Sing nursery rhymes and songs.

• Dying dry rice for messy play.

• Make a card for someone special .

• Shaving foam – write letters, numbers and name .

• Act out your favourite story.

• Thread beads onto string/shoe laces or pipe cleaners through holes in kitchen roll tubes

• Pretend to be a character. Can you family guess who you are? ‘I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house

down!’ Who am I?

• Copy a repeating pattern of claps, jumps, taps on your knee etc…

• Can you sing using a LOUD voice/quiet voice/DEEP voice/high pitched voice?

• Hide an object around the house. Give clues to someone to find it by clapping fast when they are close

and slow when they are far away (the hot and cold game) .

• Baking! What happens to the ingredients when you mix them together? How do they change.

Websites

Twinkl– www.Twinkl.co.uk - EYFS Expressive Arts and Design (Lots of activities and ideas).

www.activityvillage.co.uk.

Cbeebies - www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/make and colour/ watch and sing/topics.

www.scrapcolouring.com.

Hwb—j2launch—jit5 : paint, animate.

Pinterest—craft ideas for kids.

Humanities (Knowledge and Understanding of the World) ideas

Point to body parts / sing heads, shoulders, knees and toes .

• Learn about your senses—what is each sense for? Play sensory games , guess the smell/taste/ blind man’s

buff/ feely bag/ go on a sound walk.

• Talk about ‘Special Times’ – Easter / a family birthday

• Talk about ‘Special People’ – who is special in your family? Why?

• Talk about ‘Special Places’ – church at Easter etc… Where is your special place? Why?

• Go on a nature walk or colour hunt in the garden and collect items. Talk about signs of Spring in your garden.

• Keep a weather chart each morning – link to days of the week

• Taking care of the planet – how to sort the recycling bins at home

• Freezing/Melting ice – which substances help melt the ice cubes the quickest? Salt, sugar, flour, vinegar, milk,

water?

• Add food colouring to ice lollipops and paint with them

• Look through old photos and share memories / recognise familiar people

• Talk about old and new

• Talk about famous people in history

• Talk about your locality – what’s in Baglan, Cwmavon, Port Talbot? How many different buildings can you

see?

• Draw a pirate map and hide some treasure. Follow the pirate’s map around the garden. Find golden coins

where X marks the spot!

• Look at your house, the school using Google Maps.

• Plant flowers/vegetables in the garden and watch them grow!

• Go on a bug hunt! What minibeasts live in your garden?

• Go for a walk – what can you hear/smell/taste/feel/see?.

Websites

www.Twinkl.co.uk - Understanding the World resources and STEM outdoors

www.explorify.wellcome.ac.uk.

www.natgeokids.com.

www.topmarks.co.uk.

Www.Youtube.com. ( Just dance, songs, rhymes).

PE, PSE and Wellbeing ideas

• Move in different ways around the garden – run, hop, jump, side step, crawl, bunny hops,.

• Balancing - Can you balance on 3 points? (a hand and 2 feet) Can you balance on 2 points? (1 hand and 1 foot)

• Practise throwing and catching large and small balls.

• Can you develop your aiming skills? Throw a ball into a box/bucket. Make it harder but moving it further away.

• Dressing up clothes – encourage children to use zips, poppers, buttons , laces.

• Cutting skills—cutting shapes, straight lines, zigzags, pictures

• Threading - beads, cotton reels, pasta.

• Den building indoors and outdoors—blankets, sheets, pegs, cushions.

• Parachute games with a bed sheet and ball.

• Play tennis with balloons

• What do you like? What don’t you like? Make a healthy meal for a toy.

• Talk about what makes a good friend .

• Talk about what is fair .

• Turn taking games and sharing activities .

• All about me – make a poster about yourself, your likes and dislikes, hobbies, your family, pets, favourite food, fa-

vourite book, favourite TV show .

• Why is it important to be honest? • Why is it important to be kind? • What is teamwork?

• Emotions – Lucy’s Blue Day.

• We are all different! How are you different to your friends and family? - Twinkl book ‘We are all different’.

• Go Noodle – You Tube.

• Joe Wickes workouts – You Tube .

• Cosmic Yoga – You Tube .

• The Learning Station – You Tube .

• Debby Doo – You Tube.

• Jack Hartmann— You tube.

Websites

Www.Twinkl.co.uk— Personal, social, emotional development, Physical development—activity ideas and ebooks.

Www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers.

Smiling mind—https://app.smilingmind.co.au/.

Relax kids— www.relaxkids.com/freepack