Year R – Thursday 16th April

Share your work!

We’d love to share a piece of artwork your child has done. It can be of anything – a rainbow for the NHS, a piece of home learning, a poster, a drawing, a painting, a design, anything! Just make sure you only send in a photo of the work, not the child or anything on the photo that may identify them (e.g. full name). Simply email it to posters@stmarksce.org.uk and we’ll do the rest! We’ll make a video montage of it, and share it on our website. We would love to have as many entries as possible. Closing date is Sunday 19th April!

Holiday Activities – 

• Sketch pad activity– look closely and draw garden flowers or signs of spring. What colours can you see?  What shapes are they made from?
• Write someone a letter and send it.
• Play “Name that Song” – hum a little bit of a song – can your grown up name it?
• Build a den.
• Play a game “Hide and Seek in the dark with torches” – if you’re feeling brave!
• Play “Hide the Teddy” – say Hotter/Colder when someone is getting near your hiding place.
• Video call a friend for a playdate (you could have a dough disco together!)
• Set up a treasure hunt inside or out. Give the children clues using language such as in front, behind, next to, between, under, on top. If you can hide things of different sizes you can ask them to describe the size of what they have found. Can they describe where they found them using the positional language that you modelled?
• Continue with the Lego Play challenge. See here for details

Easter Themed Activities –

• An Easter egg hunt.
• A “Busy Bodies” Easter hunt in the garden. Click to download ideas and resources.
• A “Keyword” Easter hunt in the garden.  Click on the sheet below to download and print (alternatively make your own or make your own keyword hunt: write out pairs of keywords – keep one set, hide one set and when you find a word match it to the word in your set.)   

 

• A “Number” Easter hunt in the garden – Download and print the sheet below, cut each egg in half and hide all the parts. Once the children have found the egg parts they have to combine the correct ones to make a total of 10 e.g. 8 and 2, 7 and 3 etc  

• Making Easter nest cakes. Click for recipe
• Bunny Hop pencil control activity Click here to download
• Easter dot to dot Click here to download
• Play some Easter games together Click to open
• Ask a grown up to read you the Easter Story Click here to open
• Fork painting an Easter Chick 

• Make an Easter cross from sticks.

Bye for now!