Home Learning
At this age children are always learning, here's a few ideas and activities for you to do at home with your little one.
Learning ideas that you can do everyday:
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Reading story books with your child
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Helping your child practice dressing and undressing- using buttons/zips/fasteners
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Count up to 5, then 10 use objects, jumps or steps! You can count anything.
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Practice singing your favourite nursery rhymes
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Talk to your child about a television programme/ picture
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Go on a listening walk around your house/garden and make a list of sounds you hear
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Go on a ‘scavenger hunt’ around your home to find a given amount of objects e.g. 3 spoons
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Help to hang out the washing and count the clothes as you hang them up
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Go on a shape hunt in your house/garden- see how many shapes you can find
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Look for different colours around your house and garden
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Filling and emptying different shapes of containers, full, empty, half-full/ half-empty
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Go for a walk and look out for different types of transport
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Create a musical instruments using a plastic bottle and by adding rice/pasta/beads etc. Use this instrument when singing your favourite nursery rhymes.
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Go on a minibeast hunt in the garden or park
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Have different types of races in the garden
Here's some helpful websites with more ideas:
Early years - England - BBC Bitesize
Early learning and development - Start for Life - NHS - NHS (www.nhs.uk)