Name: End of academic Year. Summer Holidays
Start: 2024-06-27T23:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-08-14T22:59:59+00:00

Listening and Talking

The better children are at talking, the more words they have, and the more confident they will be.
Tell your child about things.
Describe what you see.
Play games.
Talk is essential for development and future success.
Playing games, singing songs, reading stories all counts.
Encourage as many family members as possible to be home to have a meal together and chat.
Don’t just give your opinion, use the ‘because’ word to explain why you think that.
Give contrasting opinions and use the ‘because’ word to explain why they may be different.
Ask your child his / her opinion and ask them to use the ‘because’ word.
Link the topic back to something you remember from when you were a child and say why things may be different now.
Project forward to how things may be different in the future.

Writing

Lots of fun activities including play dough, drawing in shaving foam, threading, using pegs, sewing, knitting, using tools such as screw drivers, playing musical instruments, crafting, etc
Look up fine motor skills on Pinterest for ideas
Try writing using cursive script by using chalks, sandboxes etc. The bigger the better!
Create rhyming lists
Create oral sentences, punctuate them with Kung Fu Punctuation

Spelling

Dots and dashes – marking the graphemes in a word e.g. b oo k
Magnetic boards (writing messages to your child on the fridge and then asking them to read and reply)
Flashcards (support learning of sounds)
Throw it on the wall spelling (identifying a tricky word then deciding what is it that makes it tricky, how many syllables it has, the consonants and vowels)
Playing active games to support learning, for example: hiding spelling/common words written on paper around the house, your child has to find them and then read/put them in a sentence for you.
Dictated sentences; using spelling words, create a sentence using words your child knows how to spell. Say the sentence, ask your child to repeat it, say it again perhaps in a silly voice/putting emphasis on a particular word then together construct the sentence (focus on punctuation too)! Then look over the sentence, how many words, sounds etc. Then hide it and ask your child to write it on their own. Mark each word individually so your child can see their successes too.

Reading