EYFS Weekly Tasks for Writing

Monday

Starter

Print the eye spy sheet for the children to label with what they can see. This is a great way for your child to practice their segmenting skills (to break up the word to hear al if the sounds in the word). Encourage your child to talk about what they can see and encourage your child to segment (break up) the word using their body e.g. if the word was sun, they would say a sound at a time while touching their head, shoulders and waist to hear s-u-n. if you are unsure what this means or how to support your child to segment (sound out) words then please email your child’s class teacher. Encourage your child to segment and write as many words as they can displayed on the picture. Encourage your child to use the sound mat in their tool kit to support them with their letter formation.

ActivityPlay the video of ‘Oliver’s Vegetable’s’ being read aloud.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTYoaJY7k-QEncourage your child to try a new vegetable or think of their favourite vegetable.You model talking about your favourite vegetable to give your child an example of the language they could use eg “My favourite vegetable is … because it is crunchy and hard. It tastes sweet.” See if you have their favourite vegetable in the house and encourage them to draw their vegetable and feel it and taste it. Encourage your child to talk about what it feels like, what tastes like and why it’s their favourite vegetable.Once they have drawn the picture, encourage them to decide on the sentences they are going to write eg ‘My favourite vegetable is a carrot. It is orange and it is sweet’.Encourage your child to think of their own sentence.Once they have decided in their sentence, encourage your child to remember their sentence by counting the number of words on your fingers, saying the sentence, whispering the sentence, shouting the sentence, stomping the sentence.Ensure they have retained the sentence and remind children of the writing prompts (the things to remember when writing)

Encourage your child to sound out each word they can sound out and to use the sound mat and tricky words while writing to ensure letters and tricky words are correctly formed.Encourage your child to use the writing prompts above (see resources) and read their writing as their writing it to ensure it makes sense.Once your child has finished their sentence encourage them to read it aloud and look at the writing prompts to ensure they have remembered all of them.

Tuesday

StarterProvide your child with some play dough or blu tack or something similar. Watch the video and encourage your child to join in with the hand exercises using their play dough. This is a great way for your child to warm up the muscles in their hands so they are ready to write.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBsNhwxzgc

ActivityOur topic is all about healthy eating.Discuss what healthy and unhealthy means.Healthy food is food that has nutrients and is good for your body to make you fit and strong.Unhealthy food is food that does not contain good nutrients that your body needs to be fit and strong.Print the pictures of heathy and unhealthy food (see resources) or use healthy and unhealthy food from your kitchen. Look at the food and discuss whether they are healthy or unhealthy and tell your children what nutrients is contains eg “yogurt is heathy as it contains calcium which is good for your bones and teeth”Once you have put the pictures/food into groups. Discuss what you have eaten that morning for breakfast and whether it was heathy or unhealthy.Encourage your child to draw a picture of what they have eaten for breakfast.Once they have drawn a picture, encourage your child to think of a sentence eg ‘This morning for breakfast I had jam and toast and it was healthy’.Once they have decided in their sentence, encourage your child to remember their sentence by counting the number of words on your fingers, saying the sentence, whispering the sentence, shouting the sentence, stomping the sentence.Ensure they have retained the sentence and remind children of the writing prompts (the things to remember when writing)

Encourage your child to sound out each word they can sound out and to use the sound mat and tricky words while writing to ensure letters and tricky words are correctly formed.Encourage your child to use the writing prompts above (see resources) and read their writing as their writing it to ensure it makes sense.Once your child has finished their sentence encourage them to read it aloud and look at the writing prompts to ensure they have remembered all of them.

Wednesday

Starter

Print the eye spy sheet for the children to label with what they can see. This is a great way for your child to practice their segmenting skills (to break up the word to hear al if the sounds in the word). Encourage your child to talk about what they can see and encourage your child to segment (break up) the word using their body. Encourage your child to segment and write as many words as they can displayed on the picture. Encourage your child to use the sound mat in their tool kit to support them with their letter formation.

ActivityExplain to the children that to keep healthy it is very important we brush our teeth to keep them strong.

Show your child the pictures cards of how to brush your teeth and explain the steps:1. Put toothpaste on our toothbrush.2. Put your toothbrush under the tap to make it wet.3. Brush the front of your teeth.4. Brush the sides, the back and your gums.5. Rinse your mouth to get rid of all the toothpaste.

Explain the steps again and create actions to support the children’s ability to remember the steps.Encourage the children to do the actions to support the steps.Encourage your child to create a sentence to describe each step to write

instructions.Explain to your child that when we write instructions we must number them so we know which ones comes first, next, after and finally.As your child created their sentences, encourage them to use these time connectives:First, Next, After, Then, Finally.Once they have decided on their sentence, encourage your child to remember their sentence by counting the number of words on your fingers, saying the sentence, whispering the sentence, shouting the sentence, stomping the sentence.Ensure they have retained the sentence and remind children of the writing prompts (the things to remember when writing)

Encourage your child to sound out each word they can sound out and to use the sound mat and tricky words while writing to ensure letters and tricky words are correctly formed.Encourage your child to use the writing prompts above (see resources) and read their writing as their writing it to ensure it makes sense.Once your child has finished their sentence encourage them to read it aloud and look at the writing prompts to ensure they have remembered all of them.

Thursday

StarterFine motor challenge- spread out some rice or any other small items such as beads on a surface and have a container each on the surface to collect the rice/beads. Set a one minute timer and have a race to see who can pick up the most grains of rice/beads in one minute. Once the timer has finished count the total.

ActivityTo create a healthy menu including a starter, main and desert.

Use the picture cards of healthy food used on Tuesday and recap what healthy foods are and why these foods are healthy and good for you.Explain to your child that you are going to create a healthy menu that hopefully you will be able to cook and prepare together.Ask your child to think about what healthy food they would like to use in their menu- you could use the picture cards or food in your kitchen for inspiration.Encourage your child to think about their starter. Encourage them to draw a picture of what they would like to create and label what the ingredients are. Then encourage your child to write a caption of what their starter is by giving it a name or the ingredients they would use.Encourage your child to repeat these steps with a main and desert.

Encourage your child to sound out each word they can sound out and to use the sound mat and tricky words while writing to ensure letters and tricky words are correctly formed.Encourage your child to use the writing prompts above (see resources) and read their writing as their writing it to ensure it makes sense.

Once your child has finished their sentence encourage them to read it aloud and look at the writing prompts to ensure they have remembered all of them.

Ideally use your child’s menu and ideas to prepare dinner together for your family.

Friday

Starter

Print the eye spy sheet for the children to label with what they can see. This is a great way for your child to practice their segmenting skills (to break up the word to hear al if the sounds in the word). Encourage your child to talk about what they can see and encourage your child to segment (break up) the word using their body. Encourage your child to segment and write as many words as they can displayed on the picture. Encourage your child to use the sound mat in their tool kit to support them with their letter formation.

ActivityPlay the video of ‘Handa’s Surprise’ being read aloud.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqdXBhyORugPlay the video again and encourage the children to listen carefully and remember all of the different fruits Handa has in her basket.Recap all of the different fruits. If you have any of these fruits taste them as a snack.Explain to your child that they are going to create their own fruit salad recipe.Explain to your child that a recipe is something you follow to learn how to make something.Show your child the fruit salad pictures so they know what a fruit salad looks like (see resources)

Encourage your child to ask the different members of their family their favourite fruit to include in the fruit salad.

Encourage your child to draw their fruit salad including their owna dn their families favourite fruits.Once they have drawn and coloured in their fruit salad, encourage your child to write a list of all of the ingredients in their fruit salad.As your child is writing, encourage them to sound out the word using their body so they are able to hear all of the sounds in the word and use the sound mat as a reference.After they have drawn a picture of their fruit salad together talk about the steps to make a fruit salad e.g.

1. Get a bowl.2. Get the ingredients.3. Cut up the fruit.4. Put the fruit in the bowl.5. Mix the fruit up.

After talking about the steps of the fruit salad recipe create actions so your child will remember the steps.Encourage your child to do the actions and say the different steps of the recipe.

Once they have decided on their sentence, encourage your child to remember their sentence by counting the number of words on your fingers, saying the sentence, whispering the sentence, shouting the sentence, stomping the sentence.Ensure they have retained the sentence and remind children of the writing prompts (the things to remember when writing)

Encourage your child to sound out each word they can sound out and to use the sound mat and tricky words while writing to ensure letters and tricky words are correctly formed.Encourage your child to use the writing prompts above (see resources) and read their writing as their writing it to ensure it makes sense.Once your child has finished their sentence encourage them to read it aloud and look at the writing prompts to ensure they have remembered all of them.

Once your child has written their recipe it would be great for them to have a go at making their fruit salad as a snack or as part of the family meal.

If you need any further help please don’t hesistate to email your child’s class teacher.It would be great to see pictures and videos of your children completing their writing tasks, making their fruit salad or brushing their teeth following the steps.