Activities to help your child learn

Not all children are ready to learn at the same time! Below are activities that will help your child to be ready to learn!


Advice for Parents - Maths 

·       Auditory discrimination - the ability to hear different sounds (and remember them).

Games to play-

I spy

Rhyming words 

I sound out c-a-t. What is that word.

Clapping for each word.

Clapping a pattern.

Clapping to word parts pen-cil

Joining compound words- bed-room.

What am I? I am little I am soft, I drink milk.

-kitten

Opposites- Granny is old and you are ……………………….

Memory games  -Mrs Brown went shopping……………. She bought a banana

Mrs Brown went shopping……………. She bought a banana and an apple

Mrs Brown went shopping……………. She bought a banana an apple and a book

·       Visual discrimination- the ability to see likeness and differences in visual information (and remember them).

Games to play-

Spot the difference

Making repeating patterns

Making patterns on paper

Sequencing –from biggest to smallest

Memory games- Kim’s game

Tracing over pictures

Jigsaw puzzles

Cards- Go fish, Happy families, Uno, Memory

Connect 4

Guess who

·       Gross Motor activities

Climbing

Crawling

Balancing

Spinning

Skipping

Hopping

Marching

Catching, throwing, kicking, bouncing a ball

·       Fine Motor activities

Colouring

Joining the dots

Cutting out

Plasticine or play dough.

Lego

Sewing

Bead threading