Today, I thought we’d get a little active!  Please could you help your child write the following letters on separate pieces of A4 (or similar) sized paper…

s a t p i n

When you have done this place them around the room and put some music on.  Encourage your child to dance around to the music and then when the music stops call a letter out and your child runs to it (a bit like musical chairs).  Repeat this with all of the letters.

Bring the letters back to the carpet or table together and explain that you are going to put some of them together to make words, can they help you read them?

For example, you could put p a t together, sound it out carefully by tapping your arm and then stroke the sounds together.  You could then swap out one of the letters and continue to make new words.  Your child, if they are feeling confident could make their own words up.  This is a great activity to use again another day, just chose different letters, enjoy!

Good morning nursery, another sunny day for us!

Today I’d like you to return to “new phonics play” on the internet and select the game “reading robot”.  Select the phase 2 level.  Your child then looks at each word on the robot’s chest and tries to say each letter sound (you can of course look back at Mrs Giordano’s letter cards to help them at this point).  As they say each sound we would then get the children to pat their arm.  We encourage the children to stroke their arm next whilst saying each sound in order to blend them together, don’t worry it this sounds confusing the children should know what to do!  If they read the word correctly press the green tick if not press the red cross.  Your child will then get a score.  You could record this score and then return to this game another time, can they beat their score?