phonetic pockets

I made this wall hanging over the past few days. I made it out of a pillow case and some bits of flannel left over from the cloth wipes i made ages ago.

I’ll probably make nicer letter cards later but for now to get started i just printed them on some card.

I have things like a spoon, ball, button, comb, peg etc in the pockets. I made just 12 pockets so that i can start with just a few letters and change them as he progresses.  And it will be easy to move on to phonograms and even use the hanging for totally different things like plant classification or geography studies.

sorting games

i presented Jordy with two new sets of material today; sorting buttons and sorting grains. The initial presentation was not ideal- i need to work on my delivery as he wants to do it immediately rather than waiting for me to complete the demonstration. But he went back to both materials later in the day and worked on them again.

He seemed to really enjoy both tasks.  The buttons are really easy for him but i made each colour also progress in size and i have not shown him that yet. I am happy for him to continue his own work with it as it is good for his coordination and counting, and it’s good to have a task that he can master quickly so that i can use that to build upon and demonstrate more about how to use the tray and basket etc rather than the actual task itself.