Hi, l hope you are all taking care and enjoying your second snow day. Here are a few activities and web sites to keep some of you busy and learning at home.
If you are allowed you could go outdoors, or if you prefer to stay indoors and cosy you could bring a tray/basin of snow indoors. Use the snow like a whiteboard and try to sound out and write words, form letters or numbers (using a stick/pencil or even paint) in the snow. Or you could try to see if you can remember how to spell some of your tricky words. Remember to use any of the stories/rhymes/mnemonics you made up to help you recall the patterns.
You could also try to make more rhymes/mnemonics to help you with other words you find tricky to spell e.g said – Snowy Afternoon In December (even though it is March!!) . We can add these to your tricky word keyrings when we are back at school. Remember to draw a picture to go with your mnemonic.
Ask someone at home to challenge you to a game of ‘Round the World’ (like we do in some of our group times). See who can recall the sound to match the colour in the vowel house e.g. yellow – oa, ow, o_e. Extra challenge see if you can think of a word with the sound colour.
You could use old books or magazines to cut out and build words. Try to make a sounds/tricky words poster.
Play snowman bingo – draw an outline of a snowman for each player. Then fill it with 4-8 of your target sounds/words. Make cards with the sounds/words on them. Take turns to turn them over or read them out. Cover the word using a counter, scrap paper, cotton wool snowballs (if you have any at home). First one to cover all of their words is the winner 😀.
If you have paper/reusable plastic cups write or stick your target letter/words onto them. Set them out like bowling pins. Ask someone to say the word/sound/number then see if you can use a cotton wool snow ball or scrunched up piece of scrap paper to hit the correct cup.
Spotty Snowman counting – draw the outline of two snowmen . You will need 5,10 or more counters, cut out bits of paper or cotton wool balls for each snowman. You can either start with them already on the snowman or put them on as you roll the dice. Use one or two dice. Roll and add or take away the number of items to or from your snowman.
Practice your typing skills for using Clicker on Dance Mat typing. Bit.ly/keyboardtyping
Read lots of books or if you prefer listen to online audio books. Storyonline.net
