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Our ‘Phonics in the Garden’ is full of ideas for listening games that can be played in the garden. They cover most of the aspects of Phase 1 and help children to develop speaking and listening skills and give you some great ideas of ways to introduce new vocabulary. The ideas use things that are easily found in the garden and most of them take very little preparation.
Do the things in the picture make a loud or quiet sound? This Phonics Phase One activity has been designed for Aspect 1 - to encourage children to listen, and think about the sounds they hear.
This game encourages careful listening and helps children to develop their vocabulary and observational skills. It also incorporates maths skills as you can use number, shape and information about size to help with the descriptions.
This is a really fun activity to do that encourages children to explore sounds and use their imagination. Ask the children to colour in the monsters on the sheet and then discuss with them what noise they think each monster would make.
