Grow your own cress
You will need:
To plant your seeds:
While your cress is growing you can:
Draw pictures of your seeds growing
Write a diary each day for your seeds
Decorate your cup/egg/yoghurt pot e.g drawing a face
Take a picture of your seeds growing
Don’t forget to send us photos of how your seeds are growing; we would love to see them!
Here are links to two resources you can access for free. As with any of the activities and links we post on our website for Reception, please explore the links below and use the resources as you wish.
Oak National Academy –
CLICK HERE for to learn more about the academy.
CLICK HERE to go direct to the Reception page. You can then choose the subject area you would like to explore.
The sector-led Oak National Academy has today launched its online classroom and resource hub. The Academy offers 180 video lessons each week for schools to use, across a broad range of subjects. The lessons cover children in Reception through to Year 10 and are free to use by both teachers and young people.
The BBC has today launched an education package across TV and online, featuring celebrities and teachers, helping to keep children learning at home and supporting parents.
Please be aware that the activities on here start at Year One and are aimed at 5-6 year olds. However, there may be topics your child would be interested in learning about, or activities that they may enjoy the challenge of.
Please CLICK HERE to go to the Year One page
Super Why is a TV Show that explores many different questions that children may have!
Search Super Why on google for more ..
What are you doing during lock down? Are you helping your families? Are you learning at home? Are you enjoying family time? Have you learnt anything new? Have you thought about how you are going to save your memories? You could make a Time Capsule!
To make a Time Capsule, you could keep a diary of your daily activities, or use the letter template to write to yourself. You then put them in a box, along with things you have made or pictures you have taken or drawn, school work you have completed, recipes you have cooked, or anything else you would like to include, and when you return to school, seal your box and put it away.
The idea is to keep your Time Capsule and open it again in many years time, i.e. when you are 16 years old and remind yourself of what you did in 2021.
We have made a template for a letter (CLICK HERE to print it off), that you can either write straight onto, or use to help you with ideas of what to put in your letter.
You can fill in All About Me with words or pictures and put that in too! (CLICK HERE to print it off)
Did you know you can make something so many things using salt dough?
Here is a simple recipe, just multiply the ingredients depending on how much you want to make. You can then roll it our and make ornaments, hand prints, the possibilities are endless. When it is hardened, you can paint it, and if you can, when the paint is dry, varnish it too.
The key to baking it is to bake it at a low temperature for a while, and keep an eye on it. You can also leave it to dry, but this does take a long time. (250*F = 120*C)
Click here for some more ideas of what you could make!
(The recipe varies on different websites but the ingredients and outcome are the same)
CLICK HERE to print out the game or see it bigger,
If you can’t print it, you can copy the idea onto paper and make your own!
Any number of players can play this game.
Each player starts with two Lego blocks one on top of the other.
Roll the dice and move your blocks the number of squares you rolled and follow the instructions.
The person with the biggest LEGO tower at the FINISH wins the game!
An activity to try everyday – if you don’t have Lego, you could use a different construction toy, or make the ideas out of paper, or draw them.
CLICK HERE to see it bigger or if you would like to print it out.
Some great ideas I’ve seen being shared online. Go out into the sunshine and explore how shadows move and change through the day.
Turn your handprints into dinsosaurs!
