Reception: Summer Holiday Activities Please look at the ... · Take part in daily practical number...
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Reception: Summer Holiday Activities
Please look at the Summer holiday activity ideas. Try and encourage the children to take part in the different
activities. There are lots of other themed ideas on the school website. The most valuable daily activities are to
read and share stories and rhymes with children. Practise learning letter sounds, read tricky words and begin to use
in early writing. Take part in daily practical number activities including counting, adding, subtracting, doubling and
halving numbers of objects.
Practice singing the alphabet song to learn names of the letters.
Practice reading the common exception words which can also be found on the school website. https://www.hampnurseryandinfantschool.co.uk/newsletters/2020/Year-1-Common-
Exception-Words.pdf
Reading books and sharing stories with an adult is great practice to encourage their reading skills.
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/help-child-learn-age-4-5/
Practice writing their names.
Practice early handwriting skills: to develop letter formation e.g.
Long legged giraffe letter shapes; l i t u j y
One armed robot letter shapes; r b n h m k p
Curly caterpillar letter shapes; c a d o s g q e f Zig zag monster letter shapes; z v w x
Literacy: Share and read favourite stories with an
adult. Read stories about the Summer e.g. ‘Lucy and
Tom at the Seaside’ by Shirley Hughes. https://youtu.be/ww5FPkawJdg Practise learning of
letters and sounds. Read tricky words from list. Write
captions/sentences.
Invent your own story characters/stories. Draw story
pictures/story maps. Make your own story books.
Draw pictures of the places you gave visited and the
things you have seen e.g. mini beasts that you find on
your bug hunt!
Physical: Go outside and play! Play throwing and catching
using a Ball/Frisbee, explore different ways of moving your
body e.g. skipping, jumping, hopping, star jumps, dancing;
make up your own dance routine. Play garden games; skittles,
hopscotch, football, hula hoop, mini golf, badminton, tennis...
Splash and have fun in the paddling pool with adult
supervision. Play with water balloons and toys.
Visit the local park with an adult. Go on a nature walk;
collect a list of natural objects with an adult. Help with
gardening jobs.
Build dens in the garden/inside the house.
Visit the beach; build sandcastles, dig holes in the sand,
write your names/letter shapes/draw pictures in the sand.
Play a game of rounder’s, cricket, or football with your
family on the beach.
Practise hand co-ordination skills: use the playdough to
explore making models. Practise letter formation skills: use a
pencil carefully to form letter shapes.
Communication and Language: Retell your favourite
stories using dressing up clothes and props. Make up
own plays/performances for your grown-ups to watch.
Role-play stories using masks, small world toys e.g.
doll’s house, castle set, dinosaurs, farm.
Recite ‘Summer’ themed poems/rhymes. Ask your
grown-up questions about a topic. Research topic
together.
Understanding the World: Go on a ‘Mini beast’ hunt in the garden or on a
local area walk. What creatures can you find? Where are the creatures
hiding?
Bird watching: What birds can you see? Name the different birds with an
adult. Make a bird feeder.
Take part in cooking activities, e.g. chop fruits to make fruit caterpillars!
Make sandwiches for a picnic.
Make own ice lollies using fruits. Explore ice cubes; how long do they take
to melt? Make a pizza; choose different healthy toppings. Make
homemade slime/potion to explore with an adult!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/the-lets-go-club-robo-slime
Go outside at night with an adult and look up at the night sky. Can you
see the moon and stars?
Collect daisies, dandelions, buttercups during a walk. Stick on to card
with double sided tape to make a pattern. Press the flowers; leave to
flatten and dry out to create a picture.
Take photographs of places and features that you have seen.
Expressive Arts and Design:Create ‘Summer’
themed collage pictures, use sand, shells,
different textured materials.
Paint a picture on a pebble.
Make a moving boat in the sea picture!
Painting: Explore colour mixing to create
different shades of blue for the sea water.
Make sun catchers for the window. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/cbeebies-
house-suncatcher
Play find my shadow outside.
Junk modelling: Make boats to sail in the water!
Investigate which materials are waterproof?
Make a kite using different materials or a paper
airplane. Fly it outside on a windy day!
https://youtu.be/iG91XrEHfGY
Sing your favourite songs; make up your own
songs to sing. Use junk materials to create a
musical instrument. Make up own rhythms.
Mathematics: Practise daily counting to 20 forwards and
backwards. Find one more or less than a given number. Add sets
of objects to find totals to 10 and 20.
Count how many bugs, birds you can see on a Mini beast/Bird
hunt? https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/media/48349/minibeast-
hunt.pdf
Set up a toy shop with toys/price labels. Use the 1p coins to pay
for items in the shop and make totals.
Play number bingo game, snakes and ladders.
Practise doubling and finding halves of numbers of objects.
Play a game of hide the teddy and the child is to describe the
position using vocabulary e.g. under the chair, behind the sofa.
Learn the names of 2D flat shapes. Go on a shape walk to name
Personal, Social and Emotional: Enjoy special times with your family
and friends, e.g. have a teddy bears picnic, go on a day out, play a
board game e.g. snakes and ladders, matching pairs, share stories
together, play hide and seek, prepare food to eat. Think about how
we can be kind to each other? Remember to be helpful at home with
your family. Talk about how you are feeling and tell grown-ups. Keep
yourself safe; sun safety: wear a sun hat and sun cream, drink water,
stay in the shade. Stay with a grown up, road safety, water safety at
the swimming pool/beach.
Seaside Songs
Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside
Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside
I do like to be beside the sea!
I do like to stroll upon the
Prom, Prom, Prom!
Where the brass bands play:
"Tiddely-om-pom-pom!"
So just let me be beside the seaside
I'll be beside myself with glee
And there's lots of girls beside,
I should like to be beside
Beside the seaside!
Beside the sea!
The big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh,
The big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh,
Oh, the big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh, on the last day of September.
The captain said it will never, never do, never, never do, never, never do,
The captain said it will never, never do, on the last day of September.
The big ship sank to the bottom of the sea, the bottom of the sea, the bottom of the sea,
The big ship sank to the bottom of the sea, on the last day of September.
We all dip our hands in the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea,
We all dip our hands in the deep blue sea, on the last day of September.
Five little fish swimming by the shore (To the tune of London Bridge.)
Five little fish swimming by the shore
By the shore, By the shore
One got caught then there were
four , Four little fish
Four little fish swimming in the sea
In the sea, In the sea
One got caught then there were three, Three little fish
Three little fish swimming in the blue
In the blue , In the blue
One got caught then there were
two , Two little fish
Two little fish swimming in the sun
In the sun, In the sun
One got caught then there was one,
One little fish
One little fish swimming straight for home Decided he would never roam
Smart little fishy.
Straight for home, Straight for home
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
To see what he could see, see, see
But all that he could see, see, see
Was the deep, dark bottom of the sea, sea, sea.
A sailor went to chop, chop, chop.....
A sailor went to knee, knee, knee.....
A sailor went to sea, chop, knee…