Welcome to Clover Class's Home learning page.
We hope that you will find the ideas and videos here useful whilst your child is at home.
Your child has a routine that they follow at school.
Routines help children to understand the world around them and can reduce anxiety. Visual information and auditory cues such as songs help children to understand what is happening now and next. We are working on creating resources that can help maintain this routine and that you could use after their usual morning routine ends at home.
Summer Term
Welcome back to the second half of the Summer term. This half term our focus in Early Years and Key Stage 1 is around the theme of Holidays. We will be providing a range of resources for this theme with lesson ideas, videos, storys, songs, and fun activities for you to try at home.
We will leave the Spring and first half of Summer terms resources on the page as well so that you can continue to enjoy them or refer back to them at a later date.
Please click on the resources below
Suggested Activities For Holiday Topic

Literacy:
Holiday Themed Stories To Share At Home:
Sheldon The Snail Goes To The Beach
. Can you create your own passport? Draw yourself for your passport picture!
. Can you make a postcard and send it to a loved one?
. Create an itinerary map-start from your home and show where you are going on your holiday.
. Travel picture: Draw a picture of how you will travel; by airplane, car, boat. Can you think of other ways that you could travel?
Bedtime story - Froggy Goes to Hawaii
The Carter Family 4 - A Camping Trip!
Holiday Themed Songs:
Debbie Doo Vacation Song - "Holiday"
Holidays Are Coming Song
Holidays Are Coming Song | Holiday & Vacation Songs | Ski and Snow in HD by Fun For Kids TV: Holiday is coming! Holiday is
Summer Songs - The Singing Walrus
Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday
Maths Activities/Resources:
Counting shells and pebbles.
Providing big and small containers/buckets for children to fill and make sandcastles.
Hide shells and pebbles in the sand or water tray for the children to find and count. Provide the children with small baskets for their collections. Have they all collected the same amount? Who has more? Who has a less?
COUNTING TO 10
Learn to count to 10 with fish, crabs, octopi, and other sea creatures. ...
In the Big Blue Sea - Counting Song
Science - Understanding The World
- Light and Dark- Do you think it will be light deep under the sea? Or is it Dark? How can we make the living room dark? What might we need in the dark to see? Try making somewhere in your house as dark as it can be and then shine a torch through a colander, look at the lights refelected on the ceiling and walls, just like fish swimming through the water!
- Environments- Imagine what a sandy beach looks like or how it would feel to walk on. Can you make somewhere in your houseor garden look like the seaside? You could use blankets or pillows and towels to make rock formations or try to make a sand pit or paddling pool! Would it be cold do you think? Or would it be hot?
- Travel- How would you travel to you holiday? Could you catch the bus or cycle or walk? Would you need a special way to get there? Perhaps an aeroplane or a ship? Once you get to your holiday destination how will you trvel around? Walk, cycle, skateboard, ride a horse, get on a train?
- Forces- Think about the diferent forces we feel or experience each day
- Pushing & Pulling: Try pulling on a stringed toy does it feel different to push it instead? Did you use the same movement? Is it easier to push something or pull it? Or is it the same?
- Fast & Slow: Can you sing a favourite song really fast? Or play an instrument really slow? Can you walk really slowly across your garden or living room? Now try it walking fast! which one took longer?
- Stop, Start & Go: Play a game that involves stopping and starting perhaps musical chairs or musical statues
- Forwards & Backwards: experiment with moving things or even yourself back wards and forwards
- Ourselves- Similarities and Diffrences; What foods do we like or dislike? Do we all like or dislike the same things? Understanding our bodies and the functions of body parts. What do we use to walk or pick things up? Which part of the body do we use to hear, see, taste, smell, touch? Stranger Danger can also be talked about whilst exploring these ideas not everyone we meet can be friendly and how to be safe or cautious when meeting new people.
Science Resources:
. With support, make a picnic-take it into your garden and pretend you are at the beach-what will you make?
. Use old blankets/sheets-hang them over some chairs and set up a holiday campsite-
. Holiday hunt around the house-find items around the house you think might be useful to pack in your case, ready for a hot/cold holiday.
Sensory Resources:
Taste Box
• wafers/sauces/sprinkles
• lollipops
• candyfloss
• stick of rock
• ice cream
• orange juice/cola
Smell Box
• sunscreen
• ice cream flavours or sauces
• a beach-scented candle
Sound Box
Recordings of:
• lapping water
• crashing waves
• music from ice cream van
• sound from amusement arcades
• seagulls
Sight Box
• shells
• beach umbrella
• seaweed
• buckets and spades
• pebbles
• driftwood
Touch Box
• dry sand
• wet sand
• buckets and spades
• water spray
• pebbles
• shells
• rock pools
• seaweed
• driftwood
• body scrub
Creative and Expressive Arts:
. Junk Modeling- Create a holiday scene using empty boxes or old packaging. How are you travelling to your holiday? Create an airplane using plastic bottles and the bottle tops for windows.
. Modeling with Playdough-Check out the recipe for making Playdoug at the bottom of the learning page! Try cutting out sandcastles, and make things to pack in your case.
. Sensory tray play-using flour, rice, dried pasta, soil, shaving foam-Imagine the tray is the beach-what will use to create the sea? Can you build some sandcastles and place pasta boats in the sea? Use your fingers to create wave patterns in the shaving foam.
. Water play- fill the washing bowl up with water-use figures and pretend they are swimming in the sea. Make some boats and see if they will float.
Previous Half Term's Resources:-
Early Years & Key Stage 1 Curriculum Booklet for Parents
Space Themed Stories to Share Together
A Story Read By Clover Class' Teacher Emma - Alien Tea on Planet Zum Zee
Space Learning Challenge
Literacy Resources
Space Themed Songs
The Solar System Song
A song about the Sun and the planets for children of all ages.
Zoom Zoom Zoom We're Going to The Moon
Five Little Astronauts Phonics Letter- T song
Story Time
Stories to listen together with your children
How to Catch a Star - Oliver Jeffers
Eric and the Red Planet: A Space Adventure with Numbers
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Maths Activities
Try ordering objects from smallest to biggest.
- What will an Astronaut want for their dinner? which food is biggest?
- What might an Astronaut need to do before going to bed? can you put all the things he needs in order from the smallest to the biggest?
- Draw or colour the planets in our solar system: - Which planet is the smallest? which planet is the biggest? Can you put them in order
Maths Resources
Maths Slideshows
Counting to 10 Forwards and Backwards
Numbers Song - Space Rocket Ship
5 Little Men in a Flying Saucer
Science - Understanding The World
- Light and Dark- Do you think space is light? Or is it Dark? How can we make the living room dark? What might we need in the dark to see? Try making somewhere in your house as dark as it can be and then shine a torch through a colander, look at the lights refelected on the ceiling and walls, just like twinkling stars!
- Environments- Imagine what the Moon looks like or how it would feel to walk on it's surface. Can you make somewhere in your house look like the Moon? You could use blankets or pillows and towels to make rock formations or deep craters where aliens might pop up from to say hello! Would it be cold do you think? Or would it be hot?
- Travel- How would you get to space or the Moon or another planet? Could you catch the bus or cycle or walk? Would you need a special way to get there? Perhaps a rocket ship or a flying saucer! Once you land on the Moon or an alien planet would you walk or fly around in your spaceship? You could even drive around the planet in a special car or bounce everywhere on a space-hopper!
- Forces- Think about the diferent forces we feel or experience each day
- Pushing & Pulling: Try pulling on a stringed toy does it feel different to push it instead? Did you use the same movement? Is it easier to push something or pull it? Or is it the same?
- Fast & Slow: Can you sing a favourite song really fast? Or play an instrument really slow? Can you walk really slowly across your garden or living room? Now try it walking fast! which one took longer?
- Stop, Start & Go: Play a game that involves stopping and starting perhaps musical chairs or musical statues
- Forwards & Backwards: experiment with moving things or even yourself back wards and forwards
- Ourselves- Similarities and Diffrences; What foods do we like or dislike? Do we all like or dislike the same things? Understanding our bodies and the functions of body parts. What do we use to walk or pick things up? Which part of the body do we use to hear, see, taste, smell, touch? Do Aliens look like us? What is different about them? Stranger Danger can also be talked about whilst exploring these ideas not everyone we meet can be friendly and how to be safe or cautious when meeting new people.
Science Resources
Physical
Moving and Traveling-
- Walk like an astronaut! Use big slow movements, jump slowly, hop or skip gently as if you are bounding along the Moon's surface!
- Stretch your arms outwide and "fly" through the air ustretch your arms up high as you reach for the sky! Now crouch down low as you come into land on the surface.
- You might travel to a planet that has a friendly alien or two that would like to play a game with you! Even aliens play musical statues! What other games might they like to play? Perhaps you could teach the "aliens" some of your favourite games.
Creative and Expressive Arts
- Junk Modeling - Create a planet from the empty egg boxes or cardboard packaging or material. Make a rocket ship from an empty plastic bottle, or even make your very own astronaut's suit from cardboard boxes and tin foil!
- Modeling with playdough- Not everyone has playdough at home or sometimes it can get lost, dry out or sometimes even eaten! But there is a recipe for making playdough at the bottom of this home learning page. It is made from common ingriedents found at home and is safe for our children to build and explore with. Since its made from edible ingredients whilst it really won't taste very nice there is no need to worry if some of it does get eaten. Once you have made your playdough the you can try cutting out stars or moon shapes. or maybe modeling it into an asteroid or a 3 eyed alien!
- Sand tray Flour or rice or dried pasta if you prefer- Imagine that the tray is the surface of the Moon can you draw a pattern in the materials in the tray? Use your fingertips to leave "footsteps" on the surface of the Moon. What might an alien's footprint look like? Could you draw it? Perhaps try using differnt parts of your hand or maybe even you own feet to make marks i n the sand tray! You could even hide some figures in the tray and go exploring to find them.
- Water trays or washing up bowl with sponges and cloths- splash down in the water "landing your rocket" on a mysterious planet. Does your spaceship look like it needs a clean? Give it a wash and you will have it looking like new in no time!
Creative And Expressive Arts Resources
Additrional Summer Term Resources
Spring Topic Lessons & Resources
Stories relating to zoo animals
Sensory mark making play: using writing materials or sand, water, playdough or similar materials to make marks and explore the early stages of writing and drawing
Song time: Singing familiar rhymes or songs
Construction play: Building using toy blocks or boxes etc.
Role Play: Dressing up clothes, dolls, teddies, action figures etc.
Lesson Slideshows
So the Zoo Sent Me A Pet - Story
Write Dance: Mark making and pre-writing skills lesson
Song Time: Selection of songs for choice making activity
Literacy / English Resources
Below are a selection of learning sheets that you may find useful please have a look through them and select the ones that are most appropriate for your child.
Maths Resources
Below are a selection of learning sheets that you may find useful please have a look through them and select the ones that are most appropriate for your child.
Time Capsule
We are living through History in these extraordinary times right now. Below you will find a " Time Capsule" that you can create for your future self to look back on.
Daily Routine
Below you will find the songs and videos we use throughout the school day to help our children with their learning and also to help them to recognise the routine of the day.
Weather Song
Song used at the beginning of each day to discuss the weather.
Hello, How Are You?
A song used to greet the children in Circle time and to discuss our emotions
Days of the Week
A song used to help children identify what day of the week it is today and to help them think about what lessons they will be doing on that particular day.
Lunch Time Songs
Songs we use before lunch. Pupils chose a song that they would like to hear.
Aided Language Display Board for Activities At Home
- An ‘aided language display’ is a symbol display where all the relevant words for a specific activity are displayed on a single page in symbol form
- Ensure that symbols are easily accessible in activities
- They can be used to supplement systems already in place such as Makaton, Communication books or with purely verbal communication as they are quick to make and easy to implement
- They are a useful tool to support students to communicate in a functional way, within various activities throughout the day
- Vocabulary is organised to help combine words and build simple sentences from left to right across the display
- Certain key symbols such as ‘more’ and ‘finished’, which frequently appear on displays, should always be located in the same place each time to help the learner’s understanding and use of them. At Cherry Oak these key symbols or ‘Core Vocabulary’ are located on the left hand side of the display in yellow boxes.
- When using an Aided Language Display, or ‘ALD’ for short it is important for the person communicating with the child to use the ALD as well.
An example of using an ALD to play a game
Here is a short video of two people playing a game using and ALD to support communication. Although the display is slightly different from the ones we use at Cherry Oak the principle is the same.
Aided Language Display Boards: