The Farm - maths and English for primary children

A short welcome to this course, who the course is aimed at and a brief over view of how we can help our children to learn. We will also very briefly look at the different activities that we cover in this course

Hens seemed an obvious animal to put onto our farm, so having fun and creating hand prints seemed a great way to start this course.

If you have an older or confident child working with you, you may decide to take this task one step further and use it to help learn the 4x tables.

In this unit we have put together some games which all relate to different farm words to help your child with spelling, word recognition, and or handwriting. I have also shown how you can draw an image of a pig using letters instead of drawing a traditional hangman image, if you prefer.

You may also choose to draw the images to colour in and place in your farm.

The templates are all accessible below including: Lily pads, a word search, snakes and ladders, a board game, hangman which can be adapted to Pictionary and  'scrabble letters' as well.

Explanations of how we play them are all included in this video.

Enjoy!

I chose to add this extra video and resources as the 'ar' blend is obviously the dominant blend in the word 'farm'.

When you are looking at the 'ar' blend look at how you can no longer hear the 'a', instead it is pushed out by the dominant 'r'.

In this section you will find 5 activities to enjoy with your child.

One of the ideas I came up with for the farm dogs was to make a dog with paper chain body with an origami face. Then on each link of the body you could write the next answer in the sequence of the times table that you are practicing. So for example, if you are practicing the 10x table, on the first link you would write 10, the second link you would write 20, etc. so that you had a visual reminder of the times table that you are practicing.

You could change the paper chains for a concertina affect folding one piece of paper over the other to make a slinky style body.

Obviously your dog is going to need a face, so creating a simple origami face you could look at the simple shapes and practice the fine motor skills needed to create it.

More importantly, hopefully the creation of the body and the face will be fun!

Enjoy and I'd love to see what you create

In this section we have 3 images; a cow, dog, and a cat.

In parts of the image there are numbers. The idea here is that you decide which times-table you are practicing, then before you can colour in that part of the image you need to multiply the number written there by your chosen times table.

You may choose to draw your own images or download images to colour from the internet, but hopefully this video will give you some inspiration.

In this short video we will look at a couple of games which focus on 'ar' words and recognising multiples of a number (answers find in a specific times table). I hope you enjoy them

This is a really fun way of helping your child to create a times tables square that is more visually appealing to look at than just a sheet of paper with a grid on it!

I hope you enjoy making it and it proves to be a practical hit!

These 2 brief and very different ideas will support you with 'introducing sheep to your farm' and possibly act as an introduction to area and perimeter to older or more confident primary aged children.

For younger children you may just decide to stick with the first idea.

I hope you enjoy both these ideas

With this final idea we will look at how you can make a tractor to drive around your farm. It could be used for basic counting, shapes, or looking at very basic fractions (1/2 a lollypop stick).

So, here we are at the end.

Thank you so much for taking this course and I hope you enjoyed it.

I hope you've enjoyed spending time with your children whilst you've supported them with finding confidence in their maths and English.

Warmest wishes,

Dawn x