Things I can do at home
Some ideas of things you can do at home with your child
Parents
have asked how they can help their child at home. The possibilities are
endless but here are a few ideas that might help.
· Oral Language
Allow
your child time to express their ideas and respond to them and
encourage conversation when playing together. Puppets, masks and
dress-ups are great to encourage imaginative and role play which
allows the children time to practise the conventions of being a good
listener and speaker i.e. looking at speaker when listening and looking
at audience when speaking etc.
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· Reading
Your
child will bring home a reading book most nights. The books will be
chosen by them from their independent box, although sometimes I will
send home an instructional reader. On Fridays they will bring home
their poem book to share their weekly poem with you.
When reading you could :-
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discuss the pictures / characters
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get your child to retell the story in their own words
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predict what they think might happen on the next page, in the story. After the story has ended what might happen next etc
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share their favourite character and say why
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talk about a similar experience that you have had
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think of another word that has a similar or opposite meaning e.g. big / enormous; big / small
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read to your child, get your child to read to you; and share reading with your child
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· Blend card
Your child will have a blend card in their reading folder. We will be concentrating on 1 blend a week.
You
could :-
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find things around the house that begin with that blend
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draw or find pictures in magazines of things that begin with the blend
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build up a list of words beginning with a blend
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find words in books beginning with the blend
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· Spelling
You could :-
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look at patterns in the words
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practise previously learnt words
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find the words in books
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practise writing all the words they can write in
10 minutes
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generate lists of words that rhymes eg cat, mat, fat etc
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use Spelling City to practise your words
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· Handwriting
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practise by using a drink bottle filled with water and practise writing letters on the concrete
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draw the letters in sand
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use felts / chalk to write with
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write on a whiteboard
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· Maths
You could :-
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practise counting forwards and backwards from a given number
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what number comes before,
after , between
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help you measure when baking
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use the words longest, shortest, biggest, smallest, heavier, lighter taller, shorter etc when discussing things
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play board games and card games together
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let your child buy items when shopping and hand over the money and get change
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put
counting into real situations – e.g. counting out the number of
potatoes for tea; reading the numbers on number-plates; reading the
numbers on letterboxes
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Go on to Mathletics
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