Reception's Stay and Learn!

Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended Reception's phonics stay and learn yesterday! We definitely need some bigger classrooms. We hope you found it useful in how to support your child with phonics at home. The children were proud to show you what they have been learning at school and Fred the frog has become a firm favourite with the children.

A few fun ideas that will help your child develop their phonics knowledge!

• Play I-spy together 
• Listen for the initial sounds in words (d-d-dog)
• Play Fred says (Fred says touch your b-a-ck)
• Practice recognising sounds at speed 
• Turn the last word of a sentence into Fred talk for your child to guess (e.g. Let's get on the b-u-s). 
• Keep those fingers busy with fiddly activities! This will strengthen them for writing.