Ideas for catching up with Reception work

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My daughter attends a speech therapy unit two days a week, therefore she only attends school three days a week. I thought that the summer holidays could be a good opportunity to go over the phonics / maths learnt in Reception before moving to Year 1. I was thinking maybe half an hour a day after breakfast. Does anybody have any ideas of some fun activities that we could try? I want to keep it quite light hearted.

Have a look on Pinterest as there are lots of lovely ideas for fun activities on there and most are easy to do. ☺

DD2 enjoyed this:

make a letter box out of a cereal packet and cover it nicely.
then
use flash phonic cards (from whatever scheme they use at school, we used RWinc). Any cards she knows she gets to post into the letter box. any she doesn't go to the back of the pack. Open up box and see how many get posted.

small cards with CVC words (or wherever she's at) that match to objects. match the objects to the word

for maths, general counting as and when, using mathematical language, cooking, weighing measuring

keep reading every day

If you've got an iPad, there are some good apps. I particularly like Maths 3-5 for that age group, as it's really well designed for children who can't read yet, and is in short enough chunks to hold their interest.

On phonics, alphablocks is good. And of course, the reading challenge at your local Iibrary over the summer (she doesn't have to read the books herself, you can read them to her) is always good.

And of course the general talking about stories, noticing numbers, helping with cooking etc.

The libraries are doing a summer reading challenge each year, read 6 books for a medal and certificate. Most children love it and it is easy to keep on reading.

You can easily incorporate maths into every day life. Play boardgames with dice, go shopping, bake/cook, let her pay for things with cash and count the money she got back.

Write a little diary, most teacher ask children to do, make a scrapbook she can than take into school.

if you want to do workbooks I found Letts does nice ones, we had a fairy land one, I think I saw an animal one, they are less boring than the standard ones.

Thanks all, some nice ideas.

Mine is motivated by writing shopping lists and I buy at least one thing on it. Her spelling is phonetic but comprehensible. Both kids got the hang of reading by Easter Egg hunts - hide about 10 clues round the house with some chocolate at the end, like 'under the sink' 'look in the bath' 'see under the plug' etc.
Number bonds are a good thing to quiz when on the bus etc, and I Spy is good for sounds and spelling (can do ends with X for variety)

she will need to sing/watch all the jolly phonics songs a a ants on my arm etc. They are on YouTube. xxx

Play shops with real money. Cook , lots of maths with weighing, double the amount, half amount, count out bun cases etc. And great for fine motor skills.
Count everything, lamp post steps, make up some treasure hunts,
Cut cakes and pizza in half, quarter,
Read lots of books to her, go the library, get out and about, parks , river, beach, museums if local, they often have kids activities,
Have fun, don't try to hard, everyone learns best when they are enjoying themselves

I recommend diary. Write short sentences/words , draw some pictures, stick some tickets, pictures, pressed flowers, postcards, anything. Fun for her to do, and great treasure for you to keep!

I'd do a summer diary every few days with drawings, writing, things stuck in.

And reading. Lots of reading

I wouldn't formally sit for half an hour after breakfast at all.