We know that parents and carers often want to find out a bit more about how to support their children at home. We have included some links below that we think may be helpful, and if there are any other topics you would like covered then please let us know.

Speech and Language

Speech & Language UK Progress Checker

Learning to Talk 3 to 5 years

Helping your bilingual child

Healthy Development

Children's Oral Health

Lunchbox ideas and recipes

Building healthy sleep habits

Early Education

Starting School

What to Expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage

Potty Training

At Little Apples Preschool we are happy to work with parents to support potty/toilet training.

Please see below for advice and our policy.

Potty Training Advice

Let's Go Potty

Potty and Toilet Training Policy

Managing Emotions

Parenting Tips & Tricks

Help managing temper tantrums

Helping your child with anxiety

Phonics and Reading 

 Phonics Presentation for Parents

Supporting your child with reading at home/How to use wordless books 

Pronunciation Guide Autumn 1

How to say your sounds Autumn 1

Capital Letter Formation

Speech and Language

Learning to Talk 3 to 5 years

AUTUMN MATHS

Match, Sort and Compare

Providing children with a wide range of the same objects allows them to explore sorting and matching at a deeper level.

Think about colour, size, shape and texture of objects to support children’s language development and descriptions.

Compare Size

Model the use of language such as ‘big’, ‘little’, ‘large’ and ‘small’ and encourage children to describe what they notice. Moving the objects they are comparing close together can support understanding.

Compare Mass

Model use of language such as ‘heavy’ and ‘light’ and give children the opportunity to pick up different objects to develop their understanding of the words.

Explore Simple Patterns

Support your children to recognise that a pattern is a repeated unit. Can you explore different patterns and learn that patterns can be both visual and auditory (involving sound).

It's me 1 2 3

Support your child to say confidently the number names ‘one’, ‘two’ and ‘three’ out loud.....can they match the verbal number names to numerals and quantities? Encourage your child to count to three using objects in different arrangements by carefully touching each object as they count. Your child should understand that the final number they say is the quantity in that set.

Circles and Triangles

Support your child to notice circles and triangles all around them and begin to describe their properties. They may use informal language such as ‘pointy’ or ‘sharp’ to describe what they notice, but also encourage them to use the correct mathematical language for describing the properties of circles and triangles, such as ‘sides ’, ‘straight’, ‘corners ’ and ‘round’. Children learn that triangles are flat shapes with three straight sides and three corners, and that circles are flat shapes which are perfectly round. 

1,2,3,4,5

Share stories and pictures which show 4 and 5 and count (carefully) the groups. Encourage children to find 4 or 5 objects at home and spot 4 and 5 wherever you are!. A number hunt around the house is a great activity to support this.

Shapes with 4 sides

Help your child to notice squares and rectangles all around them and begin to describe their properties.

Point out that a shape can have other shapes within it, just as numbers can be made up of other numbers. Show -how shapes can be joined and changed in everyday contexts, such as preparing sandwiches for lunch.

Pre-cut gummed paper shapes are a great resource to support children both in making shape pictures and combining shapes to make other shapes!

Autumn Term Number rhymes-Enjoy these at home too!

 Five little men in a flying saucer - BBC Teach

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed - BBC Teach

Five little speckled frogs - BBC Teach

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I caught a fish alive - BBC Teach

Five little apples - BBC Teach

Five little ducks went swimming one day - BBC Teach

One big hippo balancing - BBC Teach

Five currant buns - BBC Teach

 

 

 

Spelling Strategies

Reading

Supporting your child with reading at home

How to say phase 5 sounds

Year 1 Maths

Videos to support the teaching on addition and subtraction:

https://vimeo.com/732387996 - Introduce parts and wholes

https://vimeo.com/732388035 - Part whole model

https://vimeo.com/732388064 - Writing number sentences

https://vimeo.com/732388094 - Fact families (addition facts)

https://vimeo.com/732388131 - Number bonds within 10

https://vimeo.com/732388233 - Addition (add together)

https://vimeo.com/732388330 - Addition problems

https://vimeo.com/732388396 - Find a part

https://vimeo.com/732388436 - Subtraction find a part

https://vimeo.com/732388628 - Subtraction (take away - how many left?)

https://vimeo.com/732388673 - Subtraction on a number line

https://vimeo.com/732388730 - Add or subtract 1 or 2

 

 

Year 2 Maths

 Videos to support the teaching on addition and subtraction:

https://vimeo.com/732387212 - Bonds to 10

https://vimeo.com/732387173 - Addition and subtraction within 20

https://vimeo.com/732387121 - Related facts

https://vimeo.com/732387078 - Bonds to 100

https://vimeo.com/732387037 - Add and subtract 1s

https://vimeo.com/732386935 - Add by making 10

https://vimeo.com/732386825 - Add 3 1-digit numbers

https://vimeo.com/732386724 - Add across a 10

https://vimeo.com/732386680 - Subtract across 10

https://vimeo.com/732386638 - Subtract from 10

https://vimeo.com/732386557 - 10 more 10 less

https://vimeo.com/732386500 - Add and subtract 10s

https://vimeo.com/732406422 - Mixed addition and subtraction

https://vimeo.com/732406458 - Compare number sentences

https://vimeo.com/732407526 - Missing number problems