FS1 Home Learning Ideas

For our FS1 parents, here is a selection of ideas to challenge your children at home.

Sharing lots of stories

As you look at books, why not try these ideas?

• Predicting what might happen next in the story
• Choosing your favourite part of the story
• Deciding who your favourite character is and drawing a picture of them
• Re-telling a familiar story using the pictures as prompts.

Singing lots of nursery rhymes

You’ll find a lovely selection on the BBC School Radio. Use the link below:

Mark making

Large or small, in lots of different contexts; you could try using mark making skills to:

• Writing a shopping list
• Write a recipe
• Make a sign
• Write a letter/message
• Label a model or picture

Don’t forget to ‘nip, flip and grip’ your pencil!

Practising Phonics Skills

• Discriminating between sounds – you could try playing a mystery sound game! (one person hides and makes a sound e.g. clapping/stomping/yawning, whilst the second person guesses what the sound was!)
• Spotting words that rhyme in songs or stories

You can also find some online Phase 1 Phonics games on Phonics Play.

Challenging careful counting

You can practise these skills in lots of different contexts. Have you tried counting: toys, pieces of food, coins, buttons, steps, claps and jumps?

Here are some online counting activities: