Useful Webpages

Please find below lots of links to pages for games and activities that you could do with your child at home throughout lockdown. Please remember to check the home learning grid for each week too as this has lots of links to websites specific to each weekly focus.

See below for some rhyming word activities to do at home from Twinkl.

Missing Rhyming Words

Rhyming words

Rhyming hotspots Click on the link below to open an activity where you can explore rhyming words.

Fisher Price Play Games to practise alphabet, numbers and shapes that are suitable for EYFS.

BBC School Radio This is good for nursery rhymes and songs

National Literacy Trust Family Zone Activities to develop your child's speaking, reading, writing and listening at home, as well as access to a virtual school library. Each week a children's author or illustrator will be showcased.

BBCs Tiny Happy People Activities for babies and toddlers to support early development and communication skills.

Hungry Little Minds Fun activities for children from Newborn to 5

LoveMyBooks LoveMyBooks is full of creative resources to support home learning with activities based on great books!

Click on the links below to watch and join in with videos that have activities to help with warming up your hands and fingers for writing. Have fun!!

Finger warm up exercises Use this video and follow the exercises to warm up your fingers ready for writing!

Mr Mc handwriting patterns Working on drawing a square pattern to music

Dough dance / finger gym Follow the routines with the playdough and to the music to warm up your hands and fingers ready for writing.

Field Studies Council - Primary Nature Live Free live lessons with an interactive online nature theme. There are games to play, competitions to enter and free resources to support.

Maddie, Space and You Join Maddie as she finds out about different elements of Space such as rockets, the solar system, astronauts, the space station and space robots! There are 5 episodes to watch.

Topmarks Maths Maths games for children 3-5 years old

Phase 1 phonics - Environmental sounds Work with Maddison and Felix to listen to and identify the different sounds

Phonics letter sounds set 1

Phase 1 phonics - Rhyming Matching Game Click on the picture that rhymes with the word in the box

Phase 1 Environment sounds game - Sounds in the Living Room Identify the sound by selecting the right answer!

Orchard free resources This website has lots of free resources to use when learning from home. There are printable sheets, games and online activities for a range of different topics and areas of learning - and it is all free!

Julia Donaldson free home learning packs To support the work that Nursery children will be doing on Julia Donaldson books over the next half term, Scholastic are offering free home learning packs here. Just click on the pack that corresponds to the book for the week and have a go at some of the activities. Let us know how you get on.

Everyone from the Nursery can sign log into Oxford Owl by using these details:

username: Nursery21

password: Nursery21

There are a range of storybooks books on here that you can read to your child as well as a range of information books that you can look through together. Some of the books have questions and activities that allow you to explore what the children have found out from listening to the story.

Click on the link below to access the website and if you need support with logging in, please see the information document, also below.

Oxford Owl free ebooks

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Phonics Bloom Phonics games for home - use phase 1 and 2 sections to practise letter sounds and play fun games and activities.

Phonics Play More fun phonics games for you to use at home. The website and resources are now free to access for parents throughout lockdown. Please see the home page for login details.

Family Learning Through this website, you can see a range of other websites which focus on phonics games for children of all ages. Just click on a link and it will take you straight to the game.

Youtube Listening games As part of Phase 1 phonics, listening games allow the children to focus their attention and recognise sounds in different environments. Click on the links below for some fun listening games from Youtube that you can play together.

Listening game 2

Listening game 3

Listening game 4

Listening game 5

Jolly Phonics song We use this song in class. Each sound has its own action to help the children learn and remember the letter sounds.

Cbeebies An excellent website for children of Nursery age with games, activities and printable sheets linked to programmes they may have watched on the TV channel

Cbeebies Alphablocks Videos of letters from the alphabet telling stories and using words. There are also games and puzzles to try.

Numberblocks Sing along and learn all about numbers with this group of numberblocks!

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