3 Top Learning Activities For Little Home Learners!

Welcome to Little Learners at home! https://troyoverend.com/Here are my ‘go to’ practical activities for toddlers and Foundation Stage children. They are adaptable to Early Literacy and Maths and can be differentiated for all ages and abilities.

1. Rainbow Rice

Dye some dried rice using food colouring and spread into a baking pan. Perfect for little fingers to make marks or practise writing letters or words. You can use different mark making tools like a paintbrush or pastry brush. To optimise the learning opportunities you can hide letters, numbers or words in the rice and have a treasure hunt. Perfect to learn high frequency words, number or letter recognition and even themed vocabulary eg. animals, food types, transport vehicles.

2. Busy Bun Tray Learning

Using balls from a ball pit and a bun tray you can practice number, letter or colour recognition and matching. Simply label the bun compartments with a colour, number, letter or word (whatever your learning focus is). Label the balls and ask your little one to match to the tray compartments. This activity also has huge benefits for hand-eye co-ordination and development of motor skills.

3. Building Block Phonics

Using a dry wipe pen, write letters/sounds on Duplo/Lego or building blocks to practise segmenting and blending of short words. The perfect activity for Nursery and Reception/Primary One children learning phonics. Of course you can increase the difficulty with this activity by adding phonograms eg- ee, oo, ea, ch. Alternatively you could write numbers on your blocks and practise number recognition and ordering numbers.

Happy home learning to our littlest learners! Remember…take it one day at a time!

Fiona at Little Learners Lisburn.