Homeschooling during the pandemic- resources

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Does anyone know of a good (free) website on how to homeschool for KS1? DD is in reception and I'm worried now that schools have closed. I want to make sure she reaches all her milestones and doesn't fall behind so need to know how to do things correctly.

Shouldn't the schools be providing information?

I dont know. I want my DD to have a day structured like a school day. I can imagine many parents are unable to do this and will just leave the kids in front of a device.

Reception is mainly learning through play. But a site like this will give a few pointers here.

I would try and play together, do some art, read stories, build some Lego, do some baking.

Learning at home is very different to learning at school and under no circumstances would I try to replicate a school day. I would try to do cutting and sticking, art, read stories etc. Go over any phonics she has learned, work on counting skills, do a maths trail etc. Try to do a bit of writing if they've started that in school.

In primary school in Ireland we work on kinds of jumps with the kids (one foot to the opposite foot, one foot to the same foot etc) so you could do something like that with hopscotch etc. Or make up a game. Lots of ways to learn when they're little.

School should be providing a minimum of 4 hours of activities per day, this is the national expectation. They will be sharing this all when they are back next week.
There has been a huge amount of support available for schools to enable this, in case we had a second wave. Most schools will offer daily registration and story time and support for learning as well as video lessons for English and maths.
You can check out oak national academy, white rose maths home learning and also reading eggs if you need any more ideas- these are what our school is using.

Yes your school should give you a full day of work to do each day, but to get you started:
Oak academy
BBC teach
These talk for writing packs are great:

www.talk4writing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/R-Rabbit-F.pdf

Plus look at this website for interactive worksheets, saves printing:

Liveworksheets.com

YouTube and Vimeo are great resources for things like phonics and Maths videos.

Cosmic kids do some great yoga and meditation type videos if that sort of thing interests you.

Great stuff. Thanks

Reception is a lot of learning through play. Lots of fine motor skills and reading are really the most important from what we were told last lockdown.

The school should provide stuff. My kids really enjoyed a bit of routine - songs at 9am, then a project, fruit and outdoors play, another project, lunch, play and milk... followed by whatever they wanted to do. We kept it very loose, did a lot of stuff like baking, art & craft, and getting outdoors whenever weather was good enough. Phonics if you can. My now year 1 child didn’t get behind during first lockdown.