You may have noticed a phonics pack in your child's bag from school this week. Please share photos/ videos of your home learning. We would love to see how they are doing with this.

Their pack contains the four phonic sounds that we have learnt this week.

Please spend some time with your child to go over these sounds and how we write these.

They may use the following words when talking about their phonics learning:

- phoneme (the sound it makes)

- grapheme (the written letter/s)

There is also a booklet of all the phase 2 sounds that they will be learning with the corresponding writing rhyme. Please encourage the use of these rhymes when your child is practising the letter formation.

This does not have to be done with pen and paper. They could practice writing the graphemes with paint, in flour, mud, sand, or even ketchup! Feel free to get creative with this, so it suits what you have at home but so it can also be an enjoyable task for you to do together.

You may want to go on a sound hunt and find objects that start with our focus phonemes (e.g. s- sun, soup, slipper). This could be done around the home, garden, on a walk, or even during your food shop!

We do go through and teach these sounds throughout the week, but the power of additional home practice is very beneficial, so we do encourage this additional exposure to their learning as much as possible.

If you would like to check or go through any of this together, please don't hesitate to ask. The staff in school are always happy to help.