we had loads of fun creating silly sentences ! Parents also thought it was fun to!

some sheets to send home to encourage communication at home. my children and parents love them last year...children encouraged to share the work at sharing time. or with key worker.

Space is our topic next term. So thinking ahead I have made some Physical Development / Phonics action cards for my Reception children. These will also linking with our Yoga sessions. I am thinking whole class, group work, phonic sessions, send home, laminating so children can select and complete independently once actions known. These can be done as a class session, early morning activities- during phonics and also printed and laminated so once the children know the action they can select a card and complete independently.

Print and laminate the spider. each spider covers phase 2 and 3 initial sounds satp inmd gock cke ur hblf jvwx yz qu attach the small pictures to wooden or plastic pegs and children clip on

A pack of Spider activities to support a variety of skills. Peg spiders. Two versions. one ith numicon images another with numbers. I used pegs with spots for counting. You could also glue numbers onto the pegs of numicon to match numbers. The spider clip art page. i laminated just the body. Pipe cleaners were put out for children to add there own legs (hole punch too) i also had beads to encourage fine motor threading skills. To extend we created counting spider. each leg had a certain amount of beads. The web. this can be used to print spiders using a cardboard tube sniped to make legs. Roll a dice and add spider, counting spots and spider! Spider eyes. Googly eyes in the water tray and a tea strainer. how many eyes can you scoop out. count out onto the mat! I tried whiteboard pens but these were to successful hen everything was wet so this year it will be magnetic numbers!

In this pack i have included pumpkins with numbers- i intend to use pumpkin seeds spineless hedgehogs - laminate and add straws or pegs. Print and get children to glue on right amount of spikes. (thinking art straws!) Leaves sheets 1-10 11-20,,, add pie cones, small glass beads, stones....Numicon leaves, use pens with numbers to match or dots on the leaves.

Some phonic fun. Can you add the sounds to make the word. I will be using as a morning bird activity or phonics table top activity

How to play. I have used toy buckets to collect their cards. Read the words and identify the sound. If correct put into your bucket. If not place at bottom of the pile. Watch out for the wave! That removes all your cards and they all have to returned to the big bucket and out of play! The winner is the player with the most cards

Rules Each player needs a goal card to store their cards Place the miss card and the penalty card in the middle of the table Place playing football cards face down Take it in turns to turn over a card. If you read the sound correctly place it in your goal. If you don’t place it in the miss pile If you turn over a red card – FOUL! Your opponent gets to take a penalty. Take card from the miss pile and place it onto the penalty spot. If they read it they keep the card (if no cards in miss pile take one from the paying pile.) Keep playing until all the cards have been used Winner is the player with the most! Print as many cards as you wish to play with. The words have two parts so you can play with only one word per sound or print the send sheet and have two.

Seagull attack! How to play Each player can have 1 or more cones to collect their ice cream scoops . Shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the table. Take it in turns to turn over. Find the sounds and read the word. If they read the word keep it. If not return to base of the pile. Build your ice cream but watch out for seagulls attack. If you turn this card over all your ice creams have to go back into the shop! The winner is the player with the most ice cream scoops!

6 games covering ee/ea ow, oa o-e ow, ou ir ur er ai ay a-e igh ie i-e y Seagull attack! How to play Each player can have 1 or more cones to collect their ice cream scoops . Shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the table. Take it in turns to turn over. Find the sounds and read the word. If they read the word keep it. If not return to base of the pile. Build your ice cream but watch out for seagulls attack. If you turn this card over all your ice creams have to go back into the shop! The winner is the player with the most ice cream scoops!

Seagull attack! lighthouse keep link How to play Each player can have 1 or more cones to collect their ice cream scoops . Shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the table. Take it in turns to turn over. Find the sounds and read the word. If they read the word keep it. If not return to base of the pile. Build your ice cream but watch out for seagulls attack. If you turn this card over all your ice creams have to go back into the shop! The winner is the player with the most ice cream scoops!

Seagull attack! How to play Each player can have 1 or more cones to collect their ice cream scoops . Shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the table. Take it in turns to turn over. Find the sounds and read the word. If they read the word keep it. If not return to base of the pile. Build your ice cream but watch out for seagulls attack. If you turn this card over all your ice creams have to go back into the shop! The winner is the player with the most ice cream scoops!

games covering ai family ee family oa family or family igh family mixed sound family How to play Each player needs Handa and her basket Place the two huts in the middle of the table. Decide which is the start pile hut and which is the return pile hut. Shuffle the cards place on start hut Player 1 turns over a card. If they read it they place in their basket. If they reveal an animal from the story they steal all your cards! Place these stolen cards in the return hut. Play continues until all cards are finished – watch out for alien goat and parrot!

a mixture of phonic sounds to support decoding skills How to play Each player needs Handa and her basket Place the two huts in the middle of the table. Decide which is the start pile hut and which is the return pile hut. Shuffle the cards place on start hut Player 1 turns over a card. If they read it they place in their basket. If they reveal an animal from the story they steal all your cards! Place these stolen cards in the return hut. Play continues until all cards are finished – watch out for alien goat and parrot!

How to play Each player needs Handa and her basket Place the two huts in the middle of the table. Decide which is the start pile hut and which is the return pile hut. Shuffle the cards place on start hut Player 1 turns over a card. If they read it they place in their basket. If they reveal an animal from the story they steal all your cards! Place these stolen cards in the return hut. Play continues until all cards are finished – watch out for alien goat and parrot!

How to play Each player needs Handa and her basket Place the two huts in the middle of the table. Decide which is the start pile hut and which is the return pile hut. Shuffle the cards place on start hut Player 1 turns over a card. If they read it they place in their basket. If they reveal an animal from the story they steal all your cards! Place these stolen cards in the return hut. Play continues until all cards are finished – watch out for alien goat and parrot!

A dice game to support initial sounds in Phase 2 and caption reading when ready. All you need is a dice and a sheet. I will laminate the sheets so i can reuse.. roll the dice and read the sound or caption. If the sound i will lbw encouraging the children to write as the say the sounds on whiet boards. To help with the captions i have added some clipart as a support.

Rocket word game Space action cards - phonics yoga actions to match the sound! initial and digraphs RWI sets 2 and 3 flash cards Rhyming words Space sound sorting Tic tac noughts and crosses HFW word game

To go with the digraph fortune tellers i have made a set using the initial sounds. the later sets have the red words to support reading no go I we be she he me. say the sound and then read the word under the flap! Cut out and fold for some phonics fun.