Nursery: What was your favourite Early Bird Phonics game and why?

This week in Nursery, we had lots of parents and carers join us on Wednesday for our Phonics Early Bird sessions. The parents/carers were able to join in with the children as we practised different phonics skills using a variety of activities. We played ‘I spy’ focusing on different initial phonemes, we sorted different objects to Little Wandle cards using their initial phonemes and we had a cat that would only eat things beginning with the ‘c’ phoneme. We also played blend from the box to practise our blending skills and Silly Soup to practise our rhyming skills. We hope the parents/carers had as much fun as we all did and we hope they continue to practise these skills at home. Lots of our parents/carers also stayed for our first carpet session so they got to join in with our Makaton Good morning song and see how we discuss our emotions using the Zones of Regulation.  Amber group got to show off their doodle with your noodle skills as they wrote the letter c, Casper and Millie groups got to demonstrate a phonics lesson, Ollie group got to display their developing fine motor skills in Dough Disco and Ziggy group got to show their developing attention skills through Bucket Time.

We have also continued to learn about different animals and learnt the vocabulary for different baby animals. We were very excited on Friday when the chicks came to visit us in nursery for the day.