Thursday, 16 July 2020

Keeping your mind busy!


Want to keep the children's brains ticking over in the Summer Holidays?

Here are some suggestions:

Mental Maths

TT Rockstars
Hit the Button (number bonds to 10 or 20 or 100 or more work on learning times tables including division facts)

Reading

Reading for pleasure - https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/#
Summer Reading Challenge - https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/

Writing

Children should learn to write for different purposes and different audiences but remember if they cannot speak in sentences using good vocabulary they will not be able to write in sentences using good vocabulary. So encourage children to speak in sentences, introduce them to new vocabulary (explaining what it means) and orally rehearse what they are going to write first.
Expose children to new experiences, this has an impact on their writing too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpccwmn/articles/ztph97h

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpccwmn/articles/zsp8srd

Purposes - List, story, letter, recount of a trip or day, diary, information, advert, poem, explain how something works, summary of a book etc. (Real or imaginary)

Audiences - Family member, relative, famous person, someone you've never met, imaginary person, teacher, council/government, friend

Other
Look at all the website ideas on the blogs

50 things to do before you're 11 and three quarters

If you want something more formal, you could try:

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