Activities that you can do at home to promote learning across the 7 areas of development for children


Today’s Blog has been written by Alina.



Sing songs such as 5 little monkeys, 5 little speckled frogs, 5 little men in a flying saucer etc. Songs will help children develop speech and language and if you choose songs with numbers in them this will also help children become aware of numbers and later on learn to count.



Here are some links with a few songs:















Maths is more than just numbers, is time, size, volume, position etc. To help with this, talk about what day it is every day, look at the calendar, ask them, what do they think the weather is doing.



You can draw numbers on the pavement and ask your child to sit on a number such as 5, 2 6 etc, this will help children learn to recognise numbers.



Play with blocks and Lego and ask the children to stack them vertical, horizontal etc. and don’t be scared of using words that they may not understand, just explain them what these words mean, children pick up new words very quick.  To help children with writing provide them with pens and paper and maybe try to have this in every room of the house. I know that some of the children are not keen on mark making to get them to write, every time they build something or make something you can ask them: Should we write your name on it so we know that it is yours? Also demonstrate this to them so they find it easier and have an example to go from.



Talk to the children about your job and what you do, talk about your family member’s jobs and what they do, this will help children learn about people and communities, you can also provide them props for them to pretend working in an office, hairdresser, police etc most children love role play.



Talk to your children about the special times in your family, about events etc, for them to learn about their family and talk about other people doing different things so that children learn that families are different and what makes them unique.




Wind Speed Indicator: 



Measure the rain:



How to make a water filter:



You will need a big bottle cut the top part and put it upside down in the bottle, you will need stones and soil and dirty water so you can filter it.

Maths activity










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