Letter of the day 'u'

Use a stick to practice writing the letter u in either sand or dirt.

Letter of the day 'b'

Draw a big butterfly. Fill the wings of your butterfly with pictures of other things that start with the letter b. e.g. banana, bug, block, balloon.

Letter of the day 'b'

See if someone can help you can learn this tongue twister above.

Draw all of the b things you just said in your work book.

Colour words

Write the words from the butterfly chart in the colour of their box. i.e. In red write is, the, and, for, a, on. Put a circle around all of the words can you read on your own

Magazine letters

Cut out the letters you need from a magazine or newspaper to make some of your sight words.

Sight word stomp

Choose some of your words to write down on the ground: use chalk outside, or pieces of paper inside. Have someone call out the words you chose. How quickly can you jump on the word that has been called?

Pour some sand or salt onto a plate. Use your finger to write some of your sight words in the sand/salt.

Story Syllables

Get your child to say these words and the clap the syllables (parts).

seahorse (2: sea – horse)

drifted (2: drif-ted)

Listen out for other 2 syllable words in the story.

Draw an underwater picture with lots of different sea creatures. Make up a story to go with your picture. Tell your story to a family member or record it for your teacher on SeeSaw.

You will need a table and some toys. Put the toys in different places around the table. Ask your child to tell you where the toys are? Use words like: under, next to, on top of, left, right.

Try out the Position Words activity on the Seesaw Activity tab.

Learn the position song by watching the YouTube clip. What words to describe position did you hear in the song?

You will need: 2 small empty boxes, 2 toys and something as a barrier.

Take turns to put the toy in different positions and tell the other person where your toy is e.g. under the box. The other person follows your instructions to put their toy into the same position.

What am I?

Describe a minibeast without actually saying its name, and have someone in your family guess its name.

Run To Game

You need four different objects (cereal box, doll, ball, jumper). Put them in a square, get your child to stand in middle. Tell your child to run to different objects.

Run to the ball, Run to the doll.

Set Up Shop

Look through the recycling bin and collect empty packages to make a ‘shop’ at home. Make some play money and ask someone in your house to buy things.