Author: Clare Griffin

Reception Home Learning Activities — Spring term B
My Dinosaur — 25th February
If you could design your own dinosaur what would it look like? What features would it have? Can you draw your dinosaur and add some labels?
What’s in an egg? — 4th March
Can you think of a creature that comes from an egg and create a poster or fact sheet about it?
Beautiful Butterflies—11th March
In Maths we have been exploring doubles, using butterflies to show how dots or shapes can be doubled by adding the same on both sides. If you would prefer to draw or paint a symmetrical butterfly you can do that instead of competing the online activity.
Humpty Dumpty — 18th March
You might like to research some simple experiments and have a go at them. Make a poster explaining what you have done.
Easter Eggs - 25th March
As we move towards easter and think about how we celebrate, design your own Easter egg. You could use different media to colour, paint or collage you egg.

If you have any photographs you would like to share of your projects please send them to
office@allsaints-standon.staffs.sch.uk and ask that they forward them to Mrs Griffin.

Reception Home Learning Activities — Spring term B
An Easter Garden— 1st April
In class we have been learning about the easter story and Easter gardens. Look at this little garden on a tray. It has a flowerpot on its side for a cave, stones for a path, some grass (moss) and flowers.
Could you make your own easter garden, including features such as a little cross of twigs or a stone to cover the front of the cave? Let your garden tell ‘the Easter story.’
Talk about why you have you made a cross and what do we want to remember?
If you put people in your Easter garden, who would you need?
Here are a couple of other gardens to give you some more ideas.
You can share your gardens by sending photographs to the school Office and asking them to be forwarded to me.
If you would prefer not to do this activity I have set a garden design activity on Purple Mash instead. Can you add some of the features talked about above to your virtual garden?

Reception Home Learning Activities — Spring term B
Big Cat Phonics reading books
Our home reading books link closely to the Little Wandle Phonics scheme we follow in school. Each child will read a shared book 3 times in school, with sessions focussed on word reading, prosody and comprehension. Their weekly book will then be shared with you at home. Some children will also have an additional home reading ‘school book’. Please read this at least 3 times.
All books should be read regularly at home so children build up fluency, and understanding of the text. Children should be able to sight read at least 80% of the book before they move onto the next which means practice makes perfect!
When doing any reading at home, please date, sign or initial every time they have read at home.
Phonics
The Phonics Play website is where you will find some free games to practice reading words containing sounds we have learnt. Your Home-School diaries will tell you which sounds to look at, linking to the new sounds we have looked at each week. The three free games are ‘Buried Treasure’, ‘Dragon’s den’ and ‘Picnic on Pluto’.
After you have selected one of the three games shown here, select Phase 2 or Phase 3 and filter the selection to show words using phonemes, digraphs and trigraphs we know or need to practice. Children then have to decide if they are real or nonsense words and put them in the correct place.
Maths
Mathletics is available to complete activities and gain certificates in celebration Assembly. Look for your log-in at the back of your reading diary.
Some activities linked to the Maths learning we have been doing may be assigned for you to complete, but you can log in whenever you like and access the games to earn points. When you have received particular points totals you will receive bronze, silver or gold certificates in Celebration Worship!

Letter-join
Look out for some writing practice at https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/
Please check home-school diaries regularly for which letters to practice.