Year 6 play and fun

Engaging educational exercises for 6-year-olds

Even if your child is most likely starting to read on their own at this point, games and activities can still be an enjoyable method to support their language development overall, phonics, and word recognition.

Signs, notices, posters, newspaper headlines, TV advertisements, and other materials may catch your child's attention more. therefore take advantage of this fresh chance to read!

Here are twelve suggestions that you can use to encourage learning both at home and in your daily activities as a family. Enjoy yourselves!

Games and other activities

1. Language games and tongue twisters

Play with and make up tongue twisters such as Betty Botter buying a little of butter or Peter Piper picking a peck of pickled peppers.

Look for rhymes and poems that experiment with language, such as "There's Mustard in the Custard" by Michael Rosen.

Invent guessing games to play while eating.Through phrases like "I'm thinking of an animal,"" for example. . It is capable of galloping. You're able to ride it. What's that? Alternate between you and me.

2. Games with phonics

See how many words your child can locate in two minutes that have a specific sound—for instance, the sound ai even though it's spelled differently—in the leveled reading books your child gets home from school!

Complete the circle of play! To form a word, use magnetic letters. Up until you return to the original word, create a new word by changing one letter at a time. "Park-part-tart-dark-park," for instance.

3. Games of memory

To aid your youngster in remembering the days of the week, months of the year, and colors of the rainbow, find songs and mnemonics (such as "Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain").

Play a matching game to locate words that start with the same letter and use flashcards to help your youngster learn words that they find challenging.

Engage in "Kim's game." Place a few items on a tray, have a conversation with your child about them, then cover the objects and see how many of them they can recall.

4. Games that need listening

A list of rhymes with similar sounds, like "rain," "brain," and "main," should be written down and read aloud. Next, write a different word, like "the." Find out from your youngster which one stands out.

Use significantly more complex directions than "Stand up/sit down" when playing "Simon says." Try hopping, flapping your arms, rubbing your stomach, and jiggling on one leg!

Engage in yes/no games. Your youngster chooses a thing, someone, or animal and responds to your questions with a yes or no until you can figure out what they are thinking about.

5. Video games with action

Encourage your youngster to read the clues in treasure hunts or challenges so they can locate the treasure.

While engaging in games like charades or What a Performance, make sure to push your youngster to follow the directions.

Engage in timed word games such as Boggle. Give your child a sound, like a short vowel "o," and instruct them to come up with as many words that contain that sound before the egg timer goes off.Choose a one or two-minute timer.

6. Games with tactile elements

Make a tale setting with dolls, puppets, and construction toy figures.

Apply a dab of paint to a sheet of paper, and then use a straw to assist your child in blowing difficult phrases or letter patterns that they need to master!

When your child rolls the dice to see if they can form a word out of the letters, you can play dice games where the faces of the dice are replaced with letters. When pronouncing the word, speak it aloud.

7. Video games

Ask your youngster to read the instructions and explain the rules to you while you play computer games together.

Together, watch educational programs like Numberjacks and Alphablocks. Join any related online groups and have a conversation about it.

Have fun by reading, watching, or playing! Create connections between movies and books—which is better?

8. Video games for road trips

What direction do you believe the truck is heading? Together, create a narrative about the truck's voyage, one sentence at a time from each of you.

Urge your youngster to read the notices and pose inquiries.

Play your favorite music and stories on audio cassettes.