Phonemes to revise
- ow – snow, grow, blow
- aw – saw, law, awful
- oi – soil, boil, foil
- au – sauce, pause, because
- ew – flew, grew, drew
- th – think, thorn, thick
- ow – owl, brown, growl, now
- ou – round, round, mouse, house
Spelling words to revise
- yellow, grow, again, food
- very, took, fast, there
- their, some, them, last
- blue, best, number, other
- because, week, keep, when
- what, many, book, soon
- this, that, then
- how, where, now, too
- round, found, wish, men
Some ideas for Spelling and Phonics revision
- Rainbow letters – write your words using a range of different colours
- UPPER and lower spelling – write each word in upper case and then lower case
- Pyramid spelling – write your words in a pyramid, starting with one letter at the top, two letters underneath, then three, and so on…!
- Backwards spelling words – write your words backwards!
- Write a sentence or a silly story using as many of the words as you can.
- Phoneme hunt – look for as many examples of your phoneme as you can in a book or magazine.
- Type them spelling – type your words. Change the font and colour for each word
Reading, Writing, Listening and Talking activities you can do
- Read for enjoyment daily – nothing improves your reading like reading regularly
- Keep a list of the books you read and review some of them – you could record video reviews or review in a written format of your choosing. You could even take photographs of every book you read and count them all at the end of each week!
- Create an information poster about your favourite book character. Remember to include a character picture, text and colour!
- Ask someone to give you a letter of the alphabet. You have two minutes to think of an animal, place and food/drink beginning with that letter!
- Practise handwriting – use doorway online for handwriting formation
- Practise your typing skills – use BBC Dance Mat Typing
- Write a story or diary entry about a day at home!
Maths Challenges
- Practice your times tables! You should focus on the 2x, 5x and 10x – but why not challenge yourself to learn different tables?!Times Tables
- Ask someone for a number between 0 and 100. Now write down as many addition, subtraction questions you know that can make that number!
- Gather some of your toys together. Now put them into order. First tallest to shortest. Then shortest to tallest. Then heaviest to lightest. Then lightest to heaviest.
- Add up all the ages of people in your house!
- Create a maths board game to play with others!
- Find a pattern in your house, e.g. wallpaper, tiles, on the duvet. Can you describe it? Draw and colour in the pattern.
- Walk around your house. How many shapes can you see?
- Can you find a cube, sphere, cuboid and a cylinder?
- Create a symmetrical picture!