Reception
Please see the suggested activities for your children, linked to the book Oliver's Vegetables.
Write a diary ...
Make Oliver’s vegetable diary. What did Oliver eat every day? See if you can remember, if not look back at the book to check.
Make a simple book and write Oliver’s vegetable diary with pictures of everything he tried during his week at Gran and Grandpa’s.
Make your own Mr Potato Heads. What would they say? Can you label him?
Make some pictures using your favourite foods at snack time.
Think about how different vegetables grow. Can you sort them for those that grow underground and those that grow above ground?
Make a shopping list of the different things that you would buy from the shop. How much would they cost?
Do some printing with different vegetables. What patterns do they make on the page? Can you make a repeated pattern using the different vegetables?
Practice writing your sounds using a carrot. Can you write the names of the different vegetables from the story?
Reading
What books should I read by the end of Reception? See the document below for a list of fantastic books to work your way through.
Please see the suggested activities for your children, linked to the book Sam Plants a Sunflower.
Make a picture of a sunflower using paints, pens or crayons. This sunflower has been made using hand prints for the petals and black paper for the seeds. What could you choose to use to make your sunflower?
A famous artist painted pictures of sunflowers called Vincent Van Gogh. Can you make some pictures of sunflowers like him? You could draw them on paper or draw them on the floor outside using chalks?
A really fun thing to do is to collect leaves or flowers from your garden or on you daily walk and put them into a cup. Add some water and then put it into the freezer. Take it out of the freezer the next day, what has happened? How can you get the flowers out again? What does it feel and smell like?
Sunflowers starts with the letter s. How many things can you find in your house that start with the letter s? Can you make up some silly alliteration rhymes using the letter s? Such as Silly sausages sing songs. You can tell them to an adult or you could try and write them down.
Cook some spaghetti and practice cutting it with some safe scissors.
Look at some of the different fruits and vegetables in your house, Draw a picture of them and then look at the seeds inside. What do they look like? How many seeds does it have?
Make some pictures using seeds, flowers or leaves that you have found. These can be stuck on your paper or you can put them underneath and rub a crayon over the top. What can you make? What patterns can you see?
Please see the suggested activities for your children, linked to the book What the Ladybird Heard.
Make pictures of different animals and mini beasts and count how many legs they have.
Use the book or this picture to discuss the animals in the story. Talk about who you are going to draw next e.g. this animal has feathers, this animal has 1 beak or this animal has 4 legs! Can your child guess? Get your child to test you - Play I am thinking of an animal!
Make ladybird biscuits and count the spots and that you add to each one. How many spots do you have altogether? Set a challenge of each biscuit having to have 5 or 10 spots. How many on one side, how many on the other? Talk about the calculation on both sides of the biscuit to make 10. Another way! Each ladybird must have the same amount of spots on each side. How many different doubles have you got? What do these make?
Find something to write a plan on, paper or an old bit of wallpaper. Even baking paper in a roll! Use the plan in the book or the front pages to make your own map. Talk about what is next to each of the buildings as you make it. Then talk about planning how to get the cow making turns, next to, over, under and beside.
Make a ladybird using an a toilet or kitchen roll. What other mini beasts could you make?
You could paint some ladybirds on some pebbles and hind them around your house and garden. How many spots did you add? How many ladybirds did you find?
Make a home for your ladybird in an old box. What types of things would your ladybird like in their home?
Play dominoes together and match the different number of spots. You can make your own dominoes by drawing and cutting them out of paper.