Stars of the Week: Kayleigh & Ari
Well done Kayleigh and Ari! During out Beat Baby sessions you showed great enthusiasm and were able to keep the rhythm.
This week as part of Phonics we met Beat Baby.
Beat Baby lives in Nursery and comes out to help us with phonics. Beat Baby is very shy so we have to sing a song to call him out. We have been using our names to learn about rhythm and rhyme. Rhyme and rhythm are important because they help to break words into sounds which helps us start to hear the phonemes.
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. For example, cat has the three phonemes: /c/ /a/ and /t/. Beginning to hear those sounds is part of early phonics learning.
Our Learning Next Week: We will be exploring environmental sounds and continuing to practise our counting rhymes.