Below are some ideas to help practise skills with your child if they are isolating due to Covid-19.

Phonics

• Practise the sounds in your child’s sound book. Look for these sounds in books, packaging and in the surrounding environment.
• Use shaving foam, playdough, paint, colouring pens to practice mark making and formation of the letters covered.
• You can use You Tube to access Jolly phonics songs and stories that accompany the sounds we have covered.

Reading

• Storyline Online – Home This website is great for listening to stories online.
• Share books with your child, Oxford Owl has a parents area with useful information.
• Education Scotland has a helpful website to support reading at home.

Numeracy

• There are lots of fun, interactive games on Topmarks
• Let your child help you to count out ingredients and cutlery, pair socks, match items around the home and spot numbers in their surroundings.
• Focus on associating amounts of things to a number; for example ask your child “Can you find 2 pens?” or “Count out 5 raisins” and so on.
• Focus on numbers to 5, then 10 and beyond.
• Education Scotland has lots of helpful ways to support numeracy.
• Sumdog – they must do this independently as the questions adjust to their ability.

Fine Motor Skills

• Use playdough, foam, gloop and so on to help strengthen fingers and arm muscles.
• Practise colouring in pictures neatly.
• Practise cutting skills; try to cut straight lines, curved lines and more complicated shapes.
• Use beads or bricks to make models.

Health and Wellbeing

• Go outside and play.
• Listen to some of your favourite music or another relaxing activity.

Various Other Activities

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