Phonics

Have a go at the below games for quick recall of sounds and tricky words. You may need a login in order to play the games however phonics play has provided parents with a free one for home learning which you can find here …

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Recall games can be found here … 

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/grab-a-giggling-grapheme

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/tricky-word-trucks

Digraph hangman

This is a favourite in the classroom! To help the children recognise where a digraph is to go in the word you can use a longer line or different colour line where the digraph goes.

Example words you could use:

farm, goat, duck, chick, duckling

boat, chip, mash, shark, car/park

Animal to animal

This game is called Full Circle. You start with a word and change one sound at a time eventually making it back around to the word you started with, however this version has a twist! For this game we start with a farm animal and finish with a different farm animal! I have underlined the sound that changes each time. Read the words out to your child and ask them to write them down noticing which sound is changed with each new word.

Round 1:  goat boat boot shoot sheet sheep

Round 2: chick chip cheep sheep

Literacy

Think back to the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’. If you would like to you can watch another version here ..

Use tricky bugs together to form the sentence … 

The little red hen had…

Discuss with your child the different things the little red hen had in the story to complete the sentence  e.g. bread, corn, water,etc. (If you made a story map you could use this as a guide) Have a go at writing the complete sentence. If you wanted more of a challenge you could add an adjective such as;

The little red hen had lots of corn.

The little red hen had cold water. 

Try to focus on letter formation, finger spaces and full stops while you are writing.