Reception Phonics
The Reception children learn and develop their phonics skills through the phonics scheme Monster Phonics!
Monster Phonics is a fun, exciting, multi-sensory approach to teaching phonics. It uses a range of engaging songs, rhymes, videos, games, stories and activities to teach phonics. The children will develop their reading and writing skills through lots of hands on activities, both indoors and outdoors!
Across the year, the Reception children will learn the alphabet sounds s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g,o,c,k,ck,e,u,r,b,h,f,ff,l,ll, ss, j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu. They will also learn the digraph (two letter sounds) and trigraph (three letter sounds) sounds ch, sh, th, th, ng, oo (long sound), ow, oa, ar, ur, air, ear, ure, ai, ee, oo and igh.
The children will learn and become more confident at sounding out and blending (decoding) to read simple words, high frequency words, tricky words and sentences with these sounds in. We will also work hard on developing our letter formation and using our phonics skills to spell and write simple words (segmenting).
Click here to meet the Monsters and to learn the Monster actions! https://youtu.be/4K_98m5wIEw
Click here to learn the sounds and each action! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRoFpvC0yn0
You can find out more about Monster Phonics through visiting their website https://monsterphonics.com/ or by visiting their Facebook page.
All of the children in Class One are going to fly like an eagle in their phonics learning this year!
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Through our phonics teaching and range of reading opportunities, we aim to encourage the children to develop great determination, perseverance and a wonderful love for reading. They will all learn to believe in themselves and each other, show a positive attitude towards their learning, and achieve amazing things in phonics! They will all 'Believe and Achieve!'
Nursery Monster Phonics Foundations Programme
Nursery will take part in a daily Monster Phonics Foundations session guided by an adult. During this time the children will take part in a variety of learning experiences that develop their communication, language,listening, awareness of sounds in the environment, instrumental sounds and music, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration voice sounds and oral blending and segmenting. Towards the end of the nursery year the children will also take part in some 'pre-phase 2' learning.
They will take part in lots of exciting, hands on activities during their monster phonics sessions to help them learn more.
At home please take the time to sing nursery rhymes and to read poems, rhymes and stories together. Discuss the songs, rhymes and stories together, talk about the rhyming words, draw pictures or make props to accompany your songs and stories and use instruments as you sing! Singing and reading together will have a fantastic impact on your child's communication and language development.
White Rose Maths
There are some White Rose Maths resources that you can use at home available here on the White Rose website.
https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/home-learning?year=early-years
You can also download the White Rose Maths App and use the subitising games to help your child develop their subitising skills. The other areas on the app can be used to support maths learning as your children continues to learn across the other year groups.
https://whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths
