Phonic Daisies

Phonic Daisies is a little activity I made for my daughter to practice her phonic knowledge.  I wanted a little activity that would help her recognise the different spelling of words that have the same phonic sound. This is something that she sometimes finds tricky. 

I cut out a pile of yellow circles and a pile of white petals. 

I wrote a phonic sound on the yellow circle and used 5 petals per circle to draw pictures related to the sound. Additional petals can be made for each sound to expand vocabulary and change it up each time the game is played. 

I choose to start off with the ee/ea and ai/ay sounds.

We concentrated on the separate pair of sounds individually  before grouping them together as a four. I gave her the two sound circles and scattered the ten petals across the table for her to assemble into pretty phonic daisies 

ai vs ay 

ai words: snail, train, nail, rain, paint   

ay words: spray, ray, say, tray, hay 

ee vs ea 

ee words: green, bee, three, tree, sheep

ea words: tea, sea, pea, seal, meat

I used a empty icecream tub to store our daisies and each week a new set of  phonic daisies with new sounds will be added.

Poppy remembrance day garland

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the First World War ended. This is known as Remembrance Day or Poppy Day because the destruction of the war disturbed the lands and transformed bare land into fields of red poppies that grew around the fallen soilders. Poppies are now used to show our respect to all the soldiers that died for peace and freedom.
We made a paper poppy garland to teach my children and show our respect to this special day.

Tissue Flowers

I love tissue flowers. They look fab and are great for so many different projects. All you need is a few different colours of tissue paper, fuzzy sticks, and a pair of scissors.

Flower Detectives

We have recently moved to a new village and a nice sunny afternoon was a perfect chance to get out and explore our new surroundings. I believe that education should be made fun by incorporating it into normal everyday activities. On this occasion we used our imaginations and became super sleuths for the day and embarked on a adventure flower hunt. Before we set off we equipped ourselves with cardboard magnifying glasses which my children had decorated earlier.

I also printed a poster with pictures of flowers we may find to check off along the way and off we set with our cameras to explore our village.