Activities to do together - Key Stage 2
Enjoying shared time with your child cooking, gardening, singing, telling stories will benefit everyone.
These activities can be simplified or extended depending upon your child's age and ability.
- Work together on times tables.
- Get your child to measure objects around the house in millimetres and centimetres using a ruler.
- Work out some fractions using everyday objects. For example, how much pizza has been eaten?
- Ask your child to tell and write the time using the 12 and 24-hour clock, and at different times of the day.
- Read a book together then ask your child to write a book review. They can then share the review with other family members such as brothers and sisters.
- Practice their spelling words and request they use them to write some stories.
- Multiply and divide 4 digit numbers by 1 or 2 digit numbers, for example, 2,620 times 3 or 2,620 times 12.
- Help with working out costs and use decimals to write down the amounts of things you may need to buy.
- Helping out at home. Get your child to help sort the washing and think about sizes, colours, shapes and matching pairs. Get your child to look in the food cupboards, describe packaging, discuss the weight of items and what might need to go on the shopping list.
- Involving them in the things you are doing, such as household chores and talking with them about it.
- 25 non-screen activities children can do at home - learning also takes place at many times off-screen.