Dear parents / carers,
Firstly I would like to thank you for all your efforts in supporting your children with their learning during this challenging time.
I hope that you are finding the suggested activities and resources useful in supporting the work that you are doing each day.
Please also be reminded of the importance of spending time together during this period and of the impact of talk, imaginative play and social time (playing board games, spending time in the garden, bike riding and walking etc.) on your child’s development and learning.
Make the learning fun and use the opportunity for additional time at home together to put learning into meaningful and ‘real-life’ contexts.
With uncertainty around current plans, I have put together some additional activity ideas relating directly to the Early Learning Goals.
The intention is that, by the end of the academic year, most children will be achieving most of the Early Learning Goals. They need to be achieving all elements of the goal independently in order for this to be considered as ‘achieved’.
Although we are aware that time away from school will reduce the amount of input we can give directly to this, I have listed each Early Learning Goal with some key suggested activities which will support your child in making further progress towards them.
Please continue to support your child in all aspects of their learning and continue to spend a little time (10-15 min) each day to practice phonics, read together and practice letter formation and name writing. It would also be beneficial to keep revisiting basic maths skills each day (10-15 min) such as counting to 20 and beyond, touch counting objects accurately to 20, knowing number pairs to 10 (number bonds) and within 10 e.g. 1 + 4, 2 + 3 and 5 + 0 all total 5 etc.
Keep enjoying quality time together, keep having fun, keep smiling and laughing together and take care of each other.
With warmest wishes
Mrs Slassor
