Sounds and common words to revise

Some ideas for Spelling and Phonics revision

• Rainbow letters – write your words using a range of different colours
• Write a sentence or a silly story using as many of the words as you can.
• Sound hunt – look for as many examples of your sound as you can in a book or magazine.
• Have someone write some of the letters from your common words. Can you fill in the missing space without looking?
• Make some cards with capitals and small letters and play a game of matching!

Reading, Writing, Listening and Talking activities you can do

• Read for enjoyment daily – nothing improves your reading like reading regularly
• Choose your favourite page in a reading book and draw a picture of that page. Tell an adult why you like it.
• 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 about a day at home!

Maths Challenges

• Practice counting in twos, fives and tens.
• Ask someone for a number between 0 and 20. Now write down as many addition and 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.
• 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!

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!