This week, we pulled three new sounds out of the sound bag.  They are ‘p‘, ‘i‘ and ‘n‘.

When practising ‘p’, we pretended our pointy (index) finger was a birthday cake candle that we were blowing out.  When you say ‘p’, you’ll notice a short puff of air on your fingertip.

When saying ‘i’, we made sure our lips stretched right back into a grimace and we could see each other’s teeth.  It’s very easy to muddle ‘i’ with ‘e’, so we tried to think of the sound at the start of ‘igloo’.  Our action for ‘i’ is to wiggle our fingers on the end of our noses, pretending to be Inky the mouse; Inky is a character from the Jolly Phonics stories that we dip in and out of.

When learning ‘n’, we pretending to be airplanes putting our arms out as wings.  The ‘n’ sound is a bit like an engine sound, with your tongue tucked up on the roof of your mouth.  Be careful not to drop your jaw – it’s not ‘nuh’!