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Early Literacy and Math Activities

The document outlines topics and activities for literacy, maths, and understanding the world for reception students. Literacy activities include practicing letters, sounds, writing names, and understanding fiction vs non-fiction texts. Maths focuses on addition, subtraction, counting, shapes, and measurement. Understanding the world involves using media like iPads, learning about celebrations, and safety. It suggests books, visits, role play, and online learning links to support topics. It provides challenges for students to practice safety, numbers, and sentence writing.

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Early Literacy and Math Activities

The document outlines topics and activities for literacy, maths, and understanding the world for reception students. Literacy activities include practicing letters, sounds, writing names, and understanding fiction vs non-fiction texts. Maths focuses on addition, subtraction, counting, shapes, and measurement. Understanding the world involves using media like iPads, learning about celebrations, and safety. It suggests books, visits, role play, and online learning links to support topics. It provides challenges for students to practice safety, numbers, and sentence writing.

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Topic outline:

Literacy:
Revisiting letters and sounds, which include
single sounds, diagraphs and tri-graphs.
Practising writing our first names and surnames,
words and sentences.
Using books and ICT to research.
To understand the difference between fiction and
non-fiction texts.
Creating a story using different characters and
settings.
Maths:

Addition and subtraction.


Concentrating on numbers to 20
Counting in 2s, 10s and 5s
3D shapes
Capacity: full, empty, half full, nearly full.
Measurements- Does your child know how tall they
are. Use non-standard units of measurements (hand
spans, foot spans).

Understanding the world:


Use a variety of media, for example, IPhone, Ipad
and a computer.
Learn about different celebrations: Easter.
Learning how to keep safe in our environments.

Suggested books:
Its not a box Antoinette Portis
Its not a stick- Antoinette Portis
The Little Red Hen
Farmer Duck

Suggested visits and things to do.


Go to the Museum Cartwright Hall
or Bolling Hall
Use climbing frames and outdoor
equipment to develop gross motor
skills.
Encourage role-play using props
and resources such as capes, hats,
dressing up clothes and wands.
Visit the Imax.
Visit a forest.
Topic challenges.
Help your child to

1.

Learn safety rules and what to do in an


emergency.

2.

Know what to do if there was a fire in


your home.

3.

Internet safety: know how to stay safe on


the internet.

4.
5.

Know how to cross a road safely.

Talk about home safety and the fire exits


in the home.

6.

Practise writing and ordering numbers to


20 and use numbers in the environment.

7.

To construct, remember and write a


sentence.

Learning links:
Watch Its not a box story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KXuBcdmktY

Internet Safety: How to be safe on the


internet.
http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/

Family Learning
Letter

Practise reading at home:


http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading-owl/reading

Phonics and Reading:


www.phonicsplay.com
www.mrthorne.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/p
honics/
http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html
Your child will
reading you can
sounds, reading
questions about

be sent a reading book, when


practise looking for letter
tricky words and answering
the book.

Find more on our School Blog:


www.bowlingparkprimary.net
Look at our Reception page for
challenges and activities.
There is a parent page too, why

Reception
Lets Pretend

Imagination.

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