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Welcome to Learning More. Today we've decided to go live and I know the children are off for the summer so looking at some little ideas and activities that you can do at home with your child just to keep that education going and that don't cost a lot of money and don't take a lot of time to organize. So I'm going to look at two activities today. One is bingo and another one is a little drawing activity. So bingo can be really really versatile. It can be used for literacy, it can be used for maths, it can be used really for anything and it doesn't take anything to step up. Now I would tend to generally use a whiteboard for bingo because you can just draw a little grid on there and write the numbers on and your child can choose the numbers and it's really really easy but just for the purpose of the video I've drawn out some little grids on here and I've done it purposefully. I haven't sat with a ruler, I haven't done all really neatly because this is just how you need to do it. So the first way I would think about using bingo is maybe to help with the alphabet or those initial sounds. You can use it for the end signs within words it's up to you how you use it and basically all you're asking your child to do is you give them a little grid. It can be six letters, it can be four, it can be ten, it can be whatever you want it to be. I've drawn a little grid of nine and you ask them to put different letters in there and then what you'll be doing with those letters is showing your child items from around the house or just giving them the words. So you might say okay first word on my list of bingo is apple. Do you have the letter that apple begins with and if they do then they get their pen and they cross it off. The whole idea being is that when they get all the letters crossed off they shout out bingo. This is a really great game to play if you've got two or three children at home or some friends over because it becomes a little fun activity and a bit of a competition. You can even have some prizes. Again so you might say okay I want to say the word dog. Do you have a letter, the letter that begins with dog on there. Oh yes they do they have D so they'll cross that off and it just goes on through that way. I would recommend that you write down the words that you've called out because then you can keep a record of it and it means that no cheating can happen which we sometimes have happening in our house so it's just a good way of whatever you choose to put in nine numbers from 1 to 10, nine numbers from 1 to 20. It depends on what you want to explore with your child and how proficient your child is in addition and again what you'll do is just call out some addition number sentences. So you might say my first question is 1 plus 2 and then they have to calculate 3 and then they will cross off on their grid. You might say my next number is 4 plus 4. They have to look, is it 8? No they don't have it but again other children may have it, they may have chosen it on their grid. So just a really fun way of really thinking about that mental maths and adding a little bit of competition with it. You can also do it the opposite way so you can actually give them the answer and they have to match the question with it so you can say my answer is 6 and they have to go and see if they can find a question that makes 6 and you can make it as difficult or as easy as you like. I think you can always swap these around as well for subtraction so again put the numbers on but instead of an addition calculation you're giving a subtraction calculation and it's the same here that you're actually writing subtraction calculations. I would say to actually maybe prepare that grid for your children because that can be quite a tricky one for them until they get a wee bit more confident with it. So that's bingo and a quick snapshot of what you can do with a piece of paper over the summer. My second little activity is a really fun one. It's one for helping with those tricky words that children tend to get stuck on that they spell incorrectly, they find it difficult to read and this is a little one to just really add a little memory to the word just to get them thinking about it and maybe put that little memory tab in their brain that they can think about the picture that they drew. So it's called doodle a word. So you basically give them a word and they will make little doodles, make it into shapes, make it into little characters and again it just helps with that visual representation and helping them think about those different letters and to trigger a little memory in there. So I've got was in here and as you can see upside down I turned by was my w into a little smiley face, my a I turned into a weird looking little fish and my s I turned into a snake. So all you do is give your child a nice big word on a piece of paper and ask them what could you turn it into and it stems loads of conversation, brings out that creativity and again just adds a little bit of memory to help them maybe think about those letters and oh I remember was it has an a an excitery a fish and then it helps them with that spelling and that reading. So two little fun very quick activities that take no money, don't take very much time to set up. If you do have any questions do please feel free to comment or to leave me a little message and I'll get back to you and do visit learningmo.com or our YouTube channel for loads more ideas keeping the children occupied over the summer and I hope you've enjoyed listening and I'm sure we will be seeing you all very soon.