Children's Activities for school closure
If the school is closed or your child is off for a period of time but well enough to try some school work below are some generic activties children can be doing. There are also links to TTrockstars/numbbots for maths activites and Oxford Owl for reading. Please also look at your child's class page for information from the Teacher of what they will be learning.
Reading:
- •Child reads to an adult
- Adult reads to a child
- Discussing illustrations, why an author is the child’s favourite, comparing stories by the same author and different ones
- Paired reading (child reads a bit, adult reads a bit)
- Asking questions about the text
- Predicting what may happen Looking at how the author has described a person, place or event Finding features which keep the reader interested (description including similes and metaphors, a mix of long and short sentences, questions and that moment where you go wow! What is coming next).
- Reading different texts (eg comics, newspapers, leaflets, dictionary, the Bible, advertising cards etc)
Writing:
- Writing for different purposes (eg newspaper report, a diary, a poster advertising something, a persuasive letter, a factfile about something they are interested in)
- Using key words from the statutory word lists Practising the cursive style of handwriting with the lead in and lead out stroke.
- Punctuation – full stops, capital letters, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, speech marks, brackets, colons, semi-colons, dashes, ellipsis…
- Spellings from their key words list (perhaps build up a bank of words relating to their summer term topic)
Maths:
- Number bonds to 10 and 100
- Times tables (upto 12 x 12 in Year 4)
- Inverse operation (3+4=7, 7-4=3) to make links
- Fractions, decimals and percentages (eg 50% = ½ = 0.5)
- •Telling the time Comparing measures (cm – m, m – km, ml – l, g – kg etc)
- Recognising 2D and 3D shapes
TTRS parent guide
Additional Needs:
For children who are on the Special Educational Needs Register or who may need to access activities to support learning further, please follow the route below:
Go to 'About us' then to 'Key Information' and scroll down to Special Educational Needs.