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Worried about her learning

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SCB21 · 26/07/2022 19:55

Hi, just wondered if anyone could offer some advice. My 5yo does not want to do any reading, writing or drawing in the holiday and I am getting concerned. She can read all the books sent home from school but she fights us to practice key words and refuses to write. She is left handed so letter formation has been tricky for her but when going through all her school work from p1 she is doing well. I'm concerned that she doesn't want to get things wrong and is therefore not wanting to try. I have explained people make mistakes and that this is how we learn and we make games with words but as soon as she realises she throws a tantrum. I am hoping this is just a phase but just getting worried about p2 starting in a couple of weeks and her falling behind her class mates.

Many thanks for any help, or tips you can offer x

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Kite22 · 26/07/2022 20:46

Read to her
Do activities where you model reading (following a recipe or looking up details of something you want to visit or travel timetable)
Do lots of fine motor activities so exercise the muscles in her hands (playdough / water play / threading / lego / other construction / peg boards / sewing cards / playing with clothes pegs / games with tweasers
Go out and about and talk with her about everything you see - expanding he knowledge of the world. Then a couple of times a week you write in a scrap book, making it into a diary of the holidays.....she tells you what to write and you physically do it. Get her to stick in the ticket for the attraction or a leaflet or a train ticket or a feather she picked up or a postcard you bought. Whilst you are writing make available paper and colours an encourage (but don't make) her do a picture to do alongside.
Enhance her learning in other ways - looking at a clock to look out for an important time - looking for a number on a bus - maybe follow a city trail or a trail round a historic attraction together etc etc. There's lots of reading to be done without "practising key words".
Play "I Spy"
Play board games
Play games with playing cards
Play pairs or lotto games (you can sneak the odd key word into those if you must)
Do sticker books and mixed puzzle books

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