Initial sound mats that you can print and laminate and children can write initial sound using WB pen or magnetic letters.
A great Phonics activity.
14 Mats with different pictures for initial sounds.
Dear Zoo themed lesson
Dear Zoo animal sounds - great for listening and attentions skills and phonics
Dear Zoo animal mat (pictures of the animals and the names)
Letter to the Zoo template
A great PowePoint listening game for whole class lessons.
Children need to identify the sound they can hear, this is the beginning of teaching phonics.
Listening and attention games are great for communication too!
Children to use WB pens or counters to cover the sound they have (that the adult has said)
First one to cover all sounds – shouts “bingo” and is the winner
Great way to see if children know their sounds and making teaching sounds FUN!
Real and Alien words game
Print and stick aliens onto small bin (baskets)
Basket of real & alien words for children to read.
Real words go into Tim bin
Alien words go into Mit bin
Great for helping children segment and blend the simple words and decide if it is a real word or an alien word (great to support children going into Year1 for phonics test)
Children to draw or cut/stick pictures of their family onto the family tree.
Children love talking about their family! A great topic in the EYFS - All about us
High Frequency/ Red words or sight words PowerPoint to help your children ‘remember’ these words.
Children need to automatically remember/recall these words and not use phonetic knowledge.
Holiday news worksheet with support sentence starters, conjunctions and red words.
Great activity after the holidays!
Children love sharing what they got up to which always leads to their best writing due to it being personal and about them!