How to Help at Home

Little Apples - How to Help at Home

We know that parents and carers often want to find out a bit more about how to support their children at home. We have included some links below that we think may be helpful, and if there are any other topics you would like covered then please let us know.

Potty Training

At Little Apples Preschool we are happy to work with parents to support potty/toilet training.

Please see below for advice and our policy.

Potty Training Advice

Let's Go Potty

Potty and Toilet Training Policy

Managing Emotions

Parenting Tips & Tricks

Help managing temper tantrums

Helping your child with anxiety

Pippin Class - How to Help at Home

Developing language through talk

Phonics and Reading

Phonics Presentation for Parents

Supporting your child with reading at home/How to use wordless books

Pronunciation Guide Autumn 1

How to say your sounds Autumn 1

Pronounciation Guide Autumn 2

How to say your sounds Autumn 2

This is the progression of grip development although there are big differences as to what age children acquire the skills. A few children will jump stages while others go through a phase of using a combination of grasps.

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Letter Formation

There are four letter formation families:
> Curly Caterpillar letters: a c o d g q e s f
> One Armed Robot letters: b k m n p h r
> Long Ladder letters: l i t u j y
> Zigzag letters: v w x z

Capital Letter Formation

Speech and Language

Learning to Talk 3 to 5 years

AUTUMN MATHS

Match, Sort and Compare

Providing children with a wide range of the same objects allows them to explore sorting and matching at a deeper level.

Think about the colour, size, shape and texture of objects to support children’s language development and descriptions.

Counting, Cardinality and Ordinality

Count objects (to 5) around the house and garden ...on a walk ....

-use a wooden spoon as a counting wand to ensure careful counting.

Remember – that the last number we say is how many we have altogether, that we count each item once, that moving items is a good way to count carefully, and that we can count things that can’t be touched.

Make collections of 2/3/4 items . can they make a collection of 'not' these numbers to.

Autumn Term Number rhymes – Enjoy a selection of these at home too!

The animals went in two by two - BBC Teach

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I caught a fish alive - BBC Teach

Here Is The Beehive | Count To Five | Super Simple Songs

Doodle maths letter and instructions (Spring 2026)

Doodle maths letter from DH

Doodle maths letter/instructions