This week our focus has been on Space. It has also been the week of the red weather warning! So a lot of time has been based around water play and keeping cool.
Activities we have enjoyed include, alongside other child initiated activities, have been:

• Making up space stories
• Learning about each planet in our solar system in turn throughout the week
• Matching aliens to their numbered planets
• Making space patterns
• Making models
• Lots of mark making and handwriting practice
• Learning all about our planet and how to look after it
• Lots of water play!

Most activities are available throughout the weeks for all of the children to enjoy.

We also throughout the week:

• Did a lot of mark making in various forms: water painting, wipe board marking, pencils, pens, tracing patterns
• Enjoyed movement, music and dancing
• Focused on fine motor skill activities such as threading and using tweezers
• Played lots of matching games
• Learnt about different 2d shapes and their properties and created different shapes with them
• Played lotto games and puzzles
• Had lots of free craft including painting and creating some lovely artwork
• There was name writing practice and practice finding and recognising own name
• Also a lot of listening games, songs and rhymes
• Along with counting games and action songs.
• We listened to lots of stories and looked at books
• We counted objects and also matched numerals to quantity
• Enjoyed lots of fun phonological activities
  

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to our curriculum.
For further home learning ideas you can look back through the previous weeks to find more ideas of things you can do at home.

Best wishes, Julia, Claire, Hannah, Lisa and Adam

Home Learning Activities
Summer