Category: Learning at Home

1. Exploring Seeds

   Posted on 7:00am Thursday 24th Sep 2020

   Exploring Seeds

    

   This week we've been exploring seeds and obviously that meant we could select a few of our lovely Wooden Play Den resources to accompany our topic! 

    

   

    

2. Phonics at Home

   Posted on 2:00am Sunday 13th Sep 2020

   Supporting children at home with phonics

    

   By Sheila O'Reilly

   @Rascals_and_rainbows on Instagram

    

   Phonics is based on the fact that man spoke before he wrote! Phonological skills refers to hearing sounds in words. When we are teaching phonics to children, we teach them to 'Segment' - The ability to access the individual sounds in words; and 'Blend' - The ability to push sounds together in words; and 'Phoneme Manipulation' - Changing sounds in words. For example, say 'Stop' without the 's'. Say 'ten'. Say it again and change the 't' to 'p'.