Pip and Pap Workshop: Foxes

Foxes have had some Pip-and-Pap-tastic fun today at Hardmoor!

We had some visitors from other Southampton CC Early Years settings, who wanted to come and find out more about Pip and Pap, and Foxes were more than happy to oblige!

They read 'Forest Fun with Pip and Pap', first venturing in to the forest with their 'cameras', to take some photographs. Foxes Class explored how the cameras make a 'click-click' sound, which they made using by clicking their fingers and by clicking their tongues! 

In the forest, they found a den! Pupils practised orally segmenting the sounds 'd-e-n', to make the word 'den', as well as practising orally blending the words 'Pip' and 'Pap', talking about how the words are similar, in that they both start and end with /p/, but have different sounds in the middle. In the den, pupils practised their counting skills with Pip and Pap, looking at how many sticks and stones there were - 'ten'! They explored how this word rhymed with the word 'den'!

Then, Foxes visited the 't-t-tall trees' in the forest and took some photographs, as well as stopping to listen to what they could hear in the wooded environment. Just around the corner, they discovered some horses! They talked about other words that started with the /h/ sound such as '/h/obby /h/orse' and talked about different noises a horse makes, playing with castanets to replicate their /h/ooves.

Foxes then sang the song' Bye-Bye Pip, Bye-Bye Pap' to our visiting adults before going back to the base. All of the activities are left up for our children to access in their free play time. The adults were all very impressed with how curious, independent and engaged our children were - we had lots of positive comments!