Hi all,
We have well and truly begun phonics this week! We will be covering about 4 new sounds a week up until Christmas time. Although this sounds like a lot, the children are already showing that they are picking them up. The sounds that we learn will help children to begin to read simple books and stories. As the year goes on the complexity of the sounds will increase as well as the words that they go to make up. As previously mentioned, we do offer workshops on phonics to show you how we teach phonics in school and how you can support this at home. Every week we will place a blog up to outline the sounds that we have been covering that week. We also learn actions that do with each sound and we will include those as well! Below, are the sounds for this week as well as the two that were covered at the end of last week:
- 's' as in sit - Weave hand in an s shape, like a snake, and say ssssss
- 'a' as in ant - Wiggle fingers above elbow as if ants crawling on you and say a, a, a.
- 't' as in tap - Turn head from side to side as if watching tennis and say t, t, t.
- 'p' as in pan - Pretend to be a pig and puff out the candles and say p, p, p.
- 'i' as in ink - Pretend to be a mouse by wriggling fingers at end of nose and squeak i, I, I
- 'n' as in nap - Make a noise, as if you are a plane hold arms out and say nnnnnn
Reception team
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