When starting Phase 3 Phonics of the DFE’s Letters and Sounds programme, children should already be confident segmenting and blending some words using the 19 sounds from Phase 2 Phonics (see our Phase 2 Activity Pack) In Phase 3, the following 25 new graphemes are introduced individually: – […]
What is Phonics? Phonics is a way that children can learn to read and write. It helps children listen out for and focus on the sounds that make up a word. Once they start learning these sounds that make up the words then can blend them together to […]
What is Phonics? It can seem a bit daunting when you’re encouraged to help support your child with their phonics. Many of us weren’t taught to read and write using phonics ourselves and the first time we come across it may be when our children started at nursery […]
Scissors! We want kids to be able to use them correctly, safely and successfully…but in order to do that …they need to practise! And I’m sure I’m not the only one who worries a little bit about the practising part, especially if it’s unstructured. If it was up […]
Whether you have a child who’s interested in playing doctors and with toy fire engines or you are teaching the ‘People Who Help Us’ topic to Reception/ EYFS. Here’s our favourite toys, books and learning resources all about People Who Help Us- the real life super heroes. Le […]
It’s Autumn! Not only have we been looking at some autumn based crafts this week but we’ve compiled our list of our 5 current favourite Autumnal books for young children. Any ones you think we should have included and need to know about? Please let us know! Our […]
It’s starting to look a bit Autumnal now and we’ve had a great time collecting leaves that have fallen from the trees for our craft activity. We wanted to get organised and think of some Halloween ideas for next month, so here’s our ‘Leaf Pumpkin Sun-catcher’ craft. If […]
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