EXTERNAL WEBSITES: 3-4 YEAR OLDS
These carefully chosen websites help to develop key skills and provide great ideas for parents during long summer holidays.
LITERACY & PHONICS
Polly's Phonics: Useful website to practise phonics and keep children's skills up over the summer. Videos and activities from Espresso.
EARLY READING
Provided free of charge on desktop (paid app), this interactive program covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences.
It has been designed in collaboration with leading academics and complements all synthetic phonics programmes used in schools.
NUMBER SKILLS
This whole series of activities from BBC learning guides your child through from the very basic number skills development through interactive videos
ACTIVE LEARNING & PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation for children. Interactive adventures which build strength, balance and confidence
COMMUNICATION & LANGUAGE
As well as songs and rhymes, there are hundreds of great family based activities to explore and enjoy, including crafts
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD: SCIENCE
10 experiments to help your child explore and make sense of scientific phenomena. Simple and easy to carry out!
PUZZLES, LOGIC AND PROBLEM SOLVING
The best way to develop logic in children is to do it in a fun way using puzzles. This website offers puzzles that develops abilities in areas such as reasoning, memory and deduction. Encourage your child to persevere if their first attempts fail, because resilience in problem solving needs to be developed as early as possible.
There are lots of other games on the site that support development in other areas of learning, too.
DEVELOPING MOTOR SKILLS
Dough Disco is a series of fun physical development videos for developing the muscles in the hands ready for writing through exercises with playdough to music! Essential for building strength ready for fine motor skills such as writing, drawing and cutting with scissors.
Tips for Reading with your child at home.pdfREADING DEVELOPMENT
The Education Endowment Foundation research page has produced a range of resources for parents to support home learning. These 'Supporting Reading at Home' tips provide helpful hints for encouraging reading and development of early reading skills.