Nursery Winter Sound Baskets: s and m Sound Sorting

Winter Sound Baskets: s and m initial sound sorting. A sorting mat with two baskets, s and m, plus nine winter picture cards. Children say each word, listen to the first sound and put it in the right basket. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • Sorting mat with s and m baskets. • 9 winter picture cards. Ideas for using it: • Say and sort: Say the word slowly. Does it start with s or m? • Puppet mistakes: A puppet sorts wrongly. Can children fix it? • Odd ones out: Penguin and hat start with other sounds. What are they? • Sound hunt: Find more things that start with s or m in the room. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Develop their phonological awareness, so that they can: … recognise words with the same initial sound, such as money and mother. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Listen with increased attention to sounds. • Play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.