Sounding out words

Some of us are beginning to learn how to sound out little words. Our teacher showed us a little word like 'go.'  She asked us what the first letter was then we made its sound. When we made the 'g' sound we put our hand up with our palm facing outwards. Next we made the 'o' sound but changed the direction of our palm. We did this to help us realise that 'go' is made up if two separate sounds. We will be doing lots more sounding out now.