Reception Home Learning – Theme: Traditional Tales

Text: The Three Little Pigs https://www.storyberries.com/the-three-little-pigs/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtP83CWOMwc

Language, Literacy and Communicat

ion

Read the story of The Three Little Pigs. Draw pictures to show what happened in the Beginning, Middle and End of the story. Can you retell the story to someone in your family?

Write the word ‘pig’ and practise correct letter formation for the letters.Can you write words that rhyme with ‘pig’?

Draw or paint a picture of the wolf. Describe what the wolf looks like using adjectives (describing words).

Write words from the story such as pig, wolf, straw, sticks, bricks, mum, house, man etc. Make two sets and cut them out. Play pairs and find the matching words.

Phonic Hunt – search for objects beginning with ‘p’, ‘s’, ‘b’ and ‘w’. Group the objects together according to their initial sound. Play eye spy with the objects and then try Kim’s Game (close your eyes while one object is taken away, can you guess the missing object?).

Mathematical

Development

Measuring sticks or straws – if you can, go outside and find some different length sticks. Or, you could use straws from the kitchen instead. Using a non-standard measure like pasta shapes or lego blocks, measure the length of the sticks. Order them from shortest to

Collect 3 sets of objects, e.g. lego blocks, pasta shapes, pencils. Practice making patterns such as lego, pasta, pencil, lego, pasta, pencil or lego, lego, pasta, pasta, pencil, pencil and so on.

Using your sets of 3 objects practise adding and taking away. For example, Three lego blocks and four pasta pieces is how many altogether? You could practise writing these down as an addition or subtraction sentence, 3+4=7

Find different shaped objects to draw around to create a shape house. Name and count the shapes you have used.

Using lego blocks if you have them, or sticks or straws, take a handful and estitate (guess) how many there are before counting accurately to find the exact number.

longest.

Physical Developmen

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Play a game of ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ If you can, go outside. Take turns with others to be the wolf.

Make some homemade play dough – use red food colouring or pink paint if you can. Make models of the Three Little Pigs.

If you can, go outside or a walk. Look for different types of sticks. Take a bag with you to collect some interesting ones.

If you have straws at home practise your scissor skills by cutting them different lengths.

Make a pile of the sticks you collected. Have a running race to collect the sticks one at a time and put them in a different place or empty container (e.g. from one end of the garden/park to the other.

Topic Fun – Including

Knowledge and Understanding of

the World, Creative

Development Personal and

Social Development

Build a house of your own – you could use Lego, Duplo, K’nex, cereal boxes or packaging or even build a den with blankets and furniture.

If you can, log in to HWB.Use Jit5, Turtle and find the Three Pigs themed challenge. Direct the wolf to each of the pigs’ houses. Can you save your work?

Make a mask of the wolf (paper plates are good if you have one).Act out being the wolf – can you pretend being mean? Then act out saying sorry to the pigs.

Where do pigs really live?Use books or the internet to find out where pigs like to live. Why do they like mud?

Identifying Materials – can you find objects and identify their materials including things made of wood, paper, metal and glass? Draw pictures of the things you find.