We have been learning the sounds s, a, t, p, i, n and on Monday we began learning m and r.
Sing along with the Jolly Phonics songs for the sounds we have been learning:
s, a, t, p, i, n
m
r
Here are some suggestions for activities to help you with your learning:
- Ask someone at home to write the letters we have been learning onto individual squares of paper (to make flashcards). Get them to hold up a letter and you say the sound the letter makes. Can you point to the correct letter when they say the sound?
- Try reading some two or three-letter words like the ones shown in the table. They don’t need to be real words; you are practising ‘blending’ sounds together.
| ma | sa | pa | ta |
| mat | sat | pat | tap |
| ni | si | pi | ri |
| nip | sip | pat | rip |
- Use your flashcards to try and make some two or three-letter words.
- If you know more sounds already, practise reading and making words with these. As an additional challenge, perhaps you could try reading some words together in sentence. For example: A dog sat. A hen ran. Sam had a cap.
If you are out and about, you might want to try some of these activities:
- Play ‘I spy’ using the sounds we have been learning.
- How many things can you spot beginning with _________ ?
- What can you spot? (E.g. a cat) How many words can we think of that rhyme with cat?
- Play the memory game ‘I went to the shop and bought a ________’ using the sounds you know.
- Look at posters, bus adverts, signs etc – what letters do you recognise? What sounds do the letters make? Can you read any of the words? What do you think the poster / sign / advert is about? How do you know? (Using pictures as clues.)
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