This term, red group have been focusing on rhyme. They have listening to stories with rhyme, played rhyme games and talked about rhyming words. Red group are going to make a rhyme book to take home to share and show what they have been learning about.
Blue group started the term by practising listening for ending sounds. They raced each other to place pictures in the right place to match up the sounds at the end of words. The group was so good at this that they have already moved on to medial sounds. At the last session, they played a seaside board game that was so much fun they have asked to play it again! Each player has a counter, you have to roll a dice and look carefully at the picture you land on. When you have worked out what the middle vowel sound is you have to put a counter on a beach towel. The first person to have a counter on all five towels is the winner!
Green group and yellow group have been practising blending and segmenting. Blending is when you can put sounds together to make words and segmenting is when you can split words into sounds. Sometimes it is tricky to spilt a word into all its sounds. For example;
JUMP does not contain three sounds J - UM - P
JUMP contains four sounds J - U - M - P
Everyone in both groups is getting better at this skill and we will be practising................. A LOT!
