Phonics Week Commencing 1st June 2020

Monday 1^st June:

Practise spelling common words by playing Little Bird Spelling. Follow this link and click on Year 2, then choose a bird box and click go:

Have a go at spelling the words from different Year 2 bird boxes – you could then write these words on some paper and ask a family member to hide them round the house. Word Hunt time!!!
Challenge: put these words into sentences of your own!

Tuesday 2^nd June:

Visit Phonics Play and complete Picnic on Pluto Phase 5 – follow this link: https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/picnic-on-pluto
Challenge: open the Phase 5 Challenges document below and choose a challenge to complete – have fun!

Wednesday 3^rd June:

Visit Espresso – follow this link from our school website: https://www.silvertreesacademy.co.uk/espresso/
Now click on Key Stage 1, English and scroll down to and click on Phonics.
Now click on Polly’s Phonics, Activities and scroll to the bottom of the screen to play Read the Sentence.
Challenge: open the Yes or No document below and answer the questions, then create your own game!

Thursday 4^th June:

Username – march20

Password – home

Now click on the Phases tab on the left of the screen and click Phase 5.
Scroll down the page and click on the game Cheeky Chimps. Choose a letter to focus on and sort the bananas according to the different pronunciations of that letter.

Friday 5^th June:

Visit BBC Bitesize and explore the Small Town Superheroes game. Follow this link to play the Homophones activity: https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/small-town-superheroes?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.co.uk%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzncgvk7
Challenge: make your own homophones game by writing a sentence and asking a family member to choose the correct word to fit in the sentence. Here’s some words that you could use: son/sun, wear/where, berry/bury, pair/pear, see/sea, write/right.

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