Year 5 play and fun
Engaging educational activities for children aged 5
It's likely that your child has begun participating in synthetic phonics activities at school, so making time at home for them to enjoy playing games with letters and sounds can be quite beneficial.
Additional exercises can support your children's development of critical abilities including speaking, listening, and numeracy. If you're unsure about what your child is doing in school, click on their year group to learn more about it in our school area.
Here are our top five suggestions, which we hope you'll enjoy putting to the test!
Games and other activities
1. Games with rhymes
Take part in and listen to rhymes, such as The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson.
Sing an action rhyme or engage in rhyming activities.
Make absurd jokes that rhyme. As an illustration, what do you name a stinky elephant? A foul-smelling elephant! When an elephant watches TV, what do you call it? A television elephant!
2. Games with phonics
Play letter and sound bingo or snap. To make your own DIY flashcards, write letters on pieces of paper or cards. For every letter, make two. Play Snap with them. Another option is to make a bingo card with eight boxes, each holding a letter. As the bingo caller, take turns placing the flashcards in a pile with the face down.
Take a phonics fishing game! Ask your child to "fish" for a specific sound by using homemade letter flashcards, attaching a paperclip to each, and tying a magnet to some rope and a stick.
When you are out and about, play "I spy" games (like "I spy something beginning with a...", utilizing the sound of the letter). See our sound chart for assistance with letter sounds.
3. Games of memory
Engage in "Kim's game." Arrange a few things (such a toy vehicle, an apple, a crayon, or a building brick) on a tray. Next, glance, conceal, recall, and verify!
Discuss, take a picture of, or write down a few "events" from a joint project; can your youngster recall the precise sequence?
Go shopping and work together to recall the list!
4. Games that need listening
Party games like "Simon says" are a great way to practice speaking, listening, and memory abilities without the other person realizing it!
Take in some music, discuss the instruments being played, and look up images online as a group.
5. Video games with action
Create a puppet theater out of cardboard boxes or a towel draped over a chair, and ask your child to tell you (or any willing family members!) stories they have made up or repeated.
To help your child dress up as a character and play out favorite stories, have a lot of fun dressing up with clothing and props at home. Charity stores have a tonne of inexpensive props and costume clothing.
Play games like "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?" but instead of giving them the times, write them down so they can read them.
6. Games with tactile elements
On the refrigerator or radiator, use magnetic letters to spell names and short words.
Make your child's name or basic phrases like "mum" out of modeling clay.
Put together jigsaw puzzles and talk about where to look for the missing parts!
7. Video games
Read the novels after seeing TV shows that are related to them. Charlie and Lola, Little Princess, and Katie Morag are a fantastic place to start. Discuss what they find appealing or objectionable about the characters.
Look for narrative websites such as Little Kingdom, narrative television shows, or narrative applications for your mobile device.
8. Video games for road trips
Create your own renditions of the phrases "The cook's cat is an amazing cat/beautiful cat/clever cat/daft cat," etc., after playing the phrases.
Try out this loud variation of the "Who can spot..." automobile game. It's a lot of fun, but before you get started, make sure to check with the driver! Choose a sound or a phrase to call when you notice the objects you're keeping an eye out for. Say "Bang!" for a yellow car, "Buzzzz!" for a bus, and "Wow!" for a bird, for instance.
Take a listen to an audiobook.