EASTER ACTIVITIES

Hi Reception,




 As promised here is a huge list of activities, websites, apps and links to free printables.

This should keep you very busy for the next couple of weeks. Feel free to dip in and out of these as you so wish and feel free to keep uploading pictures on to Tapestry or email them in to me.
I hope you all have a lovely Easter.
Please stay safe, look after yourselves and each other.

Fun Easter Activities 

• Create an Easter bonnet (hat)
• Make an Easter card
• Decorate paper Easter eggs, hide them around the house and garden then go on an Easter egg hunt.
• Create an Easter garden
• Make an Easter nest for a chick
• Draw a chick, bunny.
• Make Easter Rice Krispies cakes - yum!!
• Have an Easter egg and spoon race 
• Make and decorate a pair of bunny ears
• Easter egg picnic with their teddies
• Baking Easter biscuits
• Decorate Rich Tea biscuits with coloured icing and sweets for Easter
• Easter baskets for your toys
•   Make your own bunny using egg boxes!
• Decorate an old T-shirt with pictures of Easter eggs and bunnies
• Draw some Easter eggs on card and decorate a tree in your garden
• Draw a picture of Miss Letherby in an Easter outfit!!  Ribbons in her hair etc
• Draw an Easter picture of Mrs Rowland in an Easter T-shirt with bunny ears doing an Easter egg hunt!
• Find out about how Christian’s celebrate Easter https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-celebrate-easter

Other fun home learning activities

• Help cook a delicious meal
• Hand and footprint art 

• Create cinema tickets and have a cinema day/evening at home where you can all enjoy your favourite film together.
• Try a coding activity online (Comes with tutorial videos and talks you through what to do)

            Go to https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn select the pre-reader option and play puppy adventure or candy quest.  When you have mastered these you could play another pre-reader game.

• Learn to tie your shoelaces
• Make bubbles with washing up liquid, bubble mixture or bubble bath
• Design and make your own kite. Take it outside and fly it.
• Star gazing - after dark go outside and look at the stars!
• Take photos of your 3 favourite things and explain why they are your favourites.
• Play a board game with your family. If you don’t have any why not create your own snakes and ladders, hopscotch, noughts and crosses.
• Turn a cardboard box into something extraordinary
• Go outside can you spot any unusual clouds - Once I saw a cloud that looked like a heart.
• Play your favourite song and sing along
• Make your own musical instrument - a shaker, a drum, a tambourine?

Educational websites and resources online

Phonics and reading

 https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Username: march20

Password: home

Collins reading books

https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx

Username:parents@harpercollins.co.uk

PW: Parents20!

Oxford owl reading books

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading/

Maths - 

https://nrich.maths.org/13371

Number blocks

Science and Technology activities

https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary

Nursery Rhymes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-songs-index/zhwdgwx

Shows, games, quizzes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

Alphablocks

Educational Games

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://www.ictgames.com/

Craft ideas

https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/easter-crafts-for-kids/

Good apps to download

Scratch Jr

SketchUp

Teach your monster to read

Read with phonics

Spelling bee English words

Bee-Bot

Mussila Music School

Puppet Pals free

Busy things  free

Meet the alphablocks

Hopscotch

Websites offering free printables 

• https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/school-closures
• Twinkl - www.twinkl.co.uk/offer

             Code PARENTSTWINKLHELPS

Wishing you peace, health and happiness!

Have a lovely Easter!

Miss Letherby

3.4 Morning Reception

Good Morning :)
Today is the last day before the Easter Holidays!
I know this Easter is going to be a bit strange because we wont be able to do all the things we would normally do during the school holidays. The most important thing over the next two weeks is to look after yourselves, try and have lots of fun and keep your selves busy at home.
This will be my LAST DAILY post until Monday 20th April. I already Miss you lots I will miss you even more!
Later today I shall upload a separate post containing loads of activities, websites and links to free printable resources for you to use over the next two weeks. I will keep an eye on my emails and on tapestry so you could keep uploading any great activities that you do!

Here are your activities for today.

Are you ready for the day ahead? Wake yourself up with Joe Wicks or GoNoodle - My favourite is Maximo!

1. Fill in your weather chart
which  was the most frequent type of weather? Finish the sentences.
e.g It was sunny the most. It was cloudy  least (IF ONLY)

It was _______ the most.
 It was _______  least.
My favourite type of weather is ________ because ______.

Don't forget finger spaces, a full stop at the end. Try and keep your writing a consistent size and write neatly on the lines!! No being a lazy bones on your presentation because you are at home! ;)


2. Sing the days of the week song (to the tune of the Adam's Family)
It's Monday and it's Tuesday it's Wednesday and it's Thursday it's Friday and it's Saturday and then it's Sunday too days of the week (click x2) days of the week (click x2) days of the week days of the week days of the week (click x2).

Go on a number hunt around your house! Write down all the numbers that you find.
Challenge can you put the numbers in the right order?

3. Find yourself a rock from outside (if no rocks available you could draw one or use some household recycling materials or your pall of playdough etc)
Decorate your rock, give it a face, some hair and a name.

Most importantly please know that I am so grateful for and proud of you for the way you have all engaged with this process of home learning. You are working so hard at home and producing such great work.
Parents thank you for regularly uploading to tapestry, offering suggestions, sending emails, it has been great!

Have a lovely day :)

Miss Letherby

Today's Reflection

Well done everyone for your fantastic participation in completing the activities set. I have loved seeing the pictures you've sent in. You look like you have been having a great time completing the challenges.

Here's what you've been getting up to today.

 Some excellent rock faces :)

Some brilliant work on the weather.

Kamil completed the number hunt challenge and found so many things! Then he ordered his numbers.

Megan has been working really hard on her reading and practicing her numbers when she made her own hopscotch game.

Here are some more great things you have been doing! Well done everyone!

2.4. Morning Reception

Hello everyone!
Hope you are all well?
Well done for working so hard to complete the daily activities I have been setting for you! It's been great to hear from so many of you and see all the great things you have been doing at home. Keep up the hard work!

Wake up with Dinosaur Yoga or Joe Wicks PE.

Here are your activities for today!

1. My favourite dinosaur.
Think about which is your favourite dinosaur and why?
Write a sentence and draw a picture of your favourite dinosaur.
I like the.....… because…...

Don't forget finger spaces and a full stop at the end. Use your phonic sounds to help you spell the words.

2. What is it?
Play this game with some of your family.
Select several of your favourite toys, place them somewhere everyone can see them. Pick one of these toys and think about it in your head (Don’t tell anyone which toy you’ve chosen) Can you give the other players clues by describing your toy so they can guess which toy you are thinking of?
After you've played the game a few times maybe you could sort your toys by size, colour, material etc.

3.Watch this 3d shape song on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A
Then Join in with some of your favourite number rhymes from https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-songs-index/zhwdgwx

Don't forget to fill in your weather chart and complete another activity from the grid on your homework bingo sheet.
Leave me a comment on the class blog https://ctkrec.blogspot.com/

Have a good day!
Miss Letherby


Today's Reflection

• Some brilliant writing about your favourite dinosuars!
• Some lovely pictures of you working hard at home!
• Tomorrow is our last day before the Easter Holidays so make sure check out tomorrows activities.
• I will put up an extra post tomorrow containing activities you can complete over the holidays along with some useful websites as I won't be posting daily over the holidays.

Here are some of your best bits from today :)

Some great writing about your favourite dinosaurs!

Some of you enjoyed playing the What is it game giving clues about your toys for others to guess which one you were describing.

Here are some more things you got up to!

Phoebe did some creative work.

Lianater built a rocket using recyclable materials

Lily made her sister a birthday card.

Lyla practiced her writing. Great sentences about spring!

William and his mum turned an old cot bed into a desk.
Look how busy he is!

Well done everyone - Keep up the hard work. 

Have a lovely evening. 

Miss Letherby

1.4 Morning Reception

Good Morning!
How are you today? I hope you and your families are well?
I'm glad I can still see all the lovely work you are doing from home!
Here are your activities for today.

Wake yourself up with your morning exercise! Joe Wicks PE or GoNoodle on YouTube.
Or try the dinosaur Yoga poses, which did you find easiest/most challenging? (see picture)

1. Phonics challenge.
Add the sound ‘ar’ to make the words.
st__ st'ar' = star
c__
f__m
p__k
__m
j__
d__k
sh__p
b__k

Can you write one of these words in a short sentence? Don't forget to leave finger spaces between words and a full stop at the end of your sentence.

2. Bubble Snakes!
I love this activity its one of my favourites! (See Picture)
All you need to do is ...
Pour some washing up liquid into a shallow container with a little bit of water and gently mix. Cut an end off an old plastic bottle and place a sock over this end.
Dip the sock covered bubble blower into the solution and gently blow. Watch what happens!
You could add some food colouring to the bubble snakes. The kids dropped the food coloring onto the sock covered end. BE WARNED DO NOT GET THIS ON YOUR FURNITURE IF YOU USE FOOD COLOURING! Should you use it you may want to play outside.

3.Using some 3d shapes that you can find around your house can you build a model? I wonder what you will build? Maybe a dinosaur, a castle, a tower. Can you name the different 3d shapes you used. (These could be household items)

              













*Don't forget to fill in your weather chart!

You may also want to practice a phonics game on the phonics play website. Log in details in previous post. 
Complete one activity from you home learning pack.
I have also attached number practice sheet for any children who may need help forming numbers. if you are able to print please do.

Have a lovely day :)
Miss Letherby

Today's Reflection

Good evening everyone! Some of you have been continuing to word exceptionally hard today - well done!
It has been a very quiet day today. Haven't heard from many families yet today.
Please keep uploading to tapestry, email me or comment below on the blog so we know you are OK!


Here are some of today's highlights.

Kamil made a bubble snake! Such a fun activity!

Well done for completing the phonic challenge Kamil, Callum and Lily! You are little stars!

Kamil, Callum, Lily B and Lily made brilliant 3d shape models using a variety of different materials! Great job :D

Flynn got creative and used some loose parts to spell his  name then he practiced his tricky words!

Phoebe had a very busy day reading, baking, making bubble snakes and lots more! 

Well done - please keep up the great work. 
You are doing a fantastic job.
Have a lovely evening!

Miss Letherby