We Love Phonics!

Reception are getting better all the time with their sounds and can now say them at speed each session. We have been focussing the last few weeks on listening for sounds in words and blending sounds together to help us with our reading.

We have played the 'Please, Mr Crocodile' game, only being allowed to cross the river if we have the object sounded out by 'Mr Croc'! You could play a variation of this game at home by finding objects with simple sounds (s-o-ck, c-u-p, p-e-n, f-e-l-t, b-r-u-sh) and sounding them out. (You'll find yourself walking round the house sounding out all the objects you see in no time, and be amazed at how many objects you can find for this simple game!)

We have also been writing the simple sounds on picture sound cards, practising our letter formation too. We did this in a phonics session, and then many children chose to continue this activity in the writing corner during planning time.

Finally, we've been enjoying playing some of those online phonics games that were sent out in the phonics pack to parents. For this one, we have to say the sounds in the word and blend them together to know which picture to click on. This has been really popular in planning time, and children are becoming more confident with blending sounds, helping each other too. Soon, we'll be able to recognise words by sight as we see them more often!