How you can help me with my learning at home (30-50 months)

 Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Making Relationships

· Help  me build things using big cardboard boxes and pieces of fabric.
-Face time family and friends 

Self Confidence and Self Awareness

· Let me help you match the socks together.

Managing Feelings and Behaviour

· Let me dress up and pretend to be a nurse, doctor, firefighter, mum or dad.

· Explain to me why I cannot do things like run around the supermarket.

 Communication and Language

Listening and Attention

· Play listening games with me like “Simon Says ..”  Where I have to copy an action or “Ready, Steady, Go” where I have to wait to push the ball or car.

· Make up silly sentences with me where each word begins with the same sound as at the start of my name.

Understanding

· When I’m helping you to make the lunch, ask me questions like “What do I need to cut the apple?” or “What do I need to pour your milk/water into?” so that I can find you the things we need.

· When we’re tidying up give me simple instructions like “Put your shoes in the basket” or “Put the remote control on the sofa”.

Speaking

· Talk to me about things we did or places that we went to yesterday.

Physical Development

Moving and Handling

· Let me practice using children’s scissors to cut dough, cooked spaghetti or paper.

· Make an obstacle course in the garden where I have to run around benches or chairs, crawl under a blanket and crawl through a cardboard box.

Health and Self Care

· Make sure I brush my teeth twice a day.

 Expressive Arts and Design

Exploring and using Media and Materials

· Let me use my paints to mix up my own colours

Being Imaginative

· Help me to use some of my toys to make up a story.

· Give me pieces of material to make a cape or a big cardboard box to make a spaceship when I’m pretending to be somebody else or going on an adventure.

Mathematics

Numbers

· Make a train shed with numbers on so that I can match my trains into the shed with the same number on.

· Put numbers on a skittles game made from plastic bottles.  Ask me what number was on the bottle I knocked down.

Shape, Space and Measure

· Let me build from cardboard boxes or wooden bricks.  Use words like “long” or “tall” to describe my model.

· Go on a shape walk inside or in the garden to find things which are the same like “circles” or “spheres”.

 Literacy

Reading

· Set up a pretend shop where I can read the labels on the packets and boxes.

· Read a recipe to me as we’re making dough.

Writing

· Tell me what you’re writing as you write a shopping list.

· Make a name card for my bedroom door or a placemat with my name on.  Let me use these to help me try to write my name by myself.

Understanding the World

People and Communities

· Look through photograph and talk about people in my family, past and present.

The World

· Let me explore mud, rain or snow.

· Plant seeds with me in a pot or in the garden.

Technology

· Limit my time on technology