Making Phonics Fun - Magic ‘Tricky’ Word Reveal! Charlie’s been working hard trying to learn his ‘tricky’ or, high-frequency, ‘sight’ words. We usually like to sing songs to help him remember these or use flash cards. Today, I thought we’d try to make it a little bit more fun. ✏️ I wrote the words on a piece of paper 📝 using a white wax crayon 🖍 (you could also try using an unlit candle 🕯) ✏️ I watered down a little poster paint 🎨 ✏️Charlie picked a piece of paper then picked a paint colour and gently brushed some of the paint over the page ✏️Since wax is oil-based and the paint is water based, then don’t mix, so, the ‘invisible’ tricky word is revealed! ✏️To keep things going, as a challenge, he then had to read the word aloud, match it to the correct flash card, find the magnetic letters to spell it, write it down 3 times, then tell me a sentence with the word in it! The more ways you can practice the same thing and the more fun you can make it, the more likely they are to actually remember it! Charlie absolutely loved this and thought it was, “So cool!” When the words ‘magically’ appeared. He kept asking to do another one and kept going, staying engaged, for much longer than we would normally spend on this. All in all, after 113 days spent trying to homeschool in lockdown for us (yes, really! 😩), I’m definitely taking this as a win! 🙌🏻😃 #threebeansplaytime #3beansplaytime #trickywords #sightwords #twinklparents #homelearningfun #homelearning #homelearningideas #phonics #phonicsfun #funlearning #homeschooling #eyfsideas #eyfsinspiration #eyfsactivities https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUqGrWHvTF/?igshid=tzt99770n4w0