On this page, there are lots of online resources and ideas for practical activities that will help you to support your child's learning in phonics at home (please ensure that your child remains supervised whilst using internet resources).
There will be lots of every day opportunities to support your child's learning in Phonics. Listen to stories, rhymes and provide lots of opportunities for talking.
Practise your listening skills and try to identify the inside sounds on the video.
Listen and pause after every sound and encourage your child to try and identify the sound.
Which sounds did you recognise?
Practise your listening skills and try to identify the outside sounds on the video.
Listen and pause after every sound and encourage your child to try and identify the sound.
Which sounds did you recognise?
Log in to the Phonics Play website using the following log in details:
Username: jan21
Password: home
Play this Phase 1 phonics game on the Phonics Play website. What animal sounds do you recognise?
Nursery have not yet started to learn letters and sounds so please focus on Phase 1 Phonics games.
This video shows a body percussion routine. Can you follow the routine at home? Why not think of your own body percussion routine? In Nursery, we create body percussion patterns by singing the song...
Clap your hands and tap your knees,
clap your hands and tap your knees,
clap your hands and tap your knees
Now we've made a pattern!
We then change the lyrics by thinking of new actions.
What am I?
Collect 10 items from around the house, ask your child to close their eyes while you hide one of the objects behind your back.
Describe the object while your child guesses what it is, use clues such as, ‘I am long, I have bristles, I am used every morning and night, you hold me in your hand. What am I?’’ (a tooth brush).
Give as many clues as you need until your child guesses the object.
When your child guesses correctly it is then their turn to hide one of the objects behind their back and describe it to you.
Socks and shakers
Partially fill opaque bottles or the toes of socks with noisy materials (e.g. marbles, coins, rice and pebbles). Ask your child to shake the bottles or socks and to identify what is inside from the sound that it makes. Is it a quiet or loud sound?
Copying sound patterns
Create a pattern using body percussion (e.g. clap, clap, clap) and ask your child to repeat. Increase the difficulty by adding in different body percussion actions (e.g. stamp, clap, stamp). Swap roles so your child creates patterns for you to copy.
