A warm end to the week! 

Grateful for: our buddies, each other, our school. 
Learnt: making numbers, writing sentences, being safe near roads. 
Achieved: counting in 2s, ordering numbers, building a house.
Delighted: making cards, playing with my buddy, painting, PE! 

English: This week we have enjoyed lots of writing! The children wrote their Superworm sentences, using their ideas sheets from last week to help think of their sentence. The children have also enjoyed writing about different pictures. They were given a picture as a prompt to think of sentences, then used their phonic knowledge to write their idea. 

Maths: We have covered a mix of topics this week. The children have worked on counting in 2s, ordering and sequencing numbers, identifying missing numbers and making numbers on 10 frames.  

RE: We have continued our Big Question that we began last term: Which stories are special and why? (World Faiths).  Today we explored some Muslim religious artefacts. The children spent time looking at some different objects, they discussed what they thought they might be and how they are used. We finished by learning the names and uses of the different items. 

Please continue to work on -  *Phonics - some of the children are struggling with the 'th' sound, making the sound and pronouncing words correctly - that rather than vat. We have worked on feeling what our mouth and tongues do when we say the th sound. Please practise this at home! 

**Class Trip Monday! Please apply sun cream before school. Yellow hats are in school. Remember to send a packed lunch! 

Here's hoping for a cooler weekend! 

Phonics 

We follow the Phonic scheme Sounds Write. 

Sounds covered: s, a, t, i, m, n, o, p, b, c, g, h, v, f, e, d, k, l, r, u, j, w, z, x, y, *ll, *ff, *ss, *zz
*sh, *ch *th (voiced - feel vibration in throat e.g. than, them.   unvoiced - no vibration, air passes through your teeth e.g. think, moth.) *ck *ng

*Digraphs - 2 letters 1 sound. 

high frequency words: is, a, the, I, for, of, to, are, some, all 

Sound spotting - with the sounds displayed the children are asked to spot the sound. They either have to point it out, highlight it, trace over the letter, or write it on their whiteboards. 

Word building – using sound cards children help identify the sounds needed to build a given word, working out one sound at a time, s-a-t ‘sat.'

Dictation - adults tell the children a simple sentence, containing 'tricky words' - words that do not follow phonetically decodable patterns, and decodable words (words they can sound out). The children are encouraged to use their Phonic knowledge to write the sentence. We also practise using finger spaces, capital letters and full stops.

Sound Swap - starting with a given word, change one sound to make a new word - cat, pat, pan, tan, tin, pin etc. 

The following link has some information for parents if you would like to have a look. 

 https://sounds-write.co.uk/support-for-parents-and-carers/ 
The correct pronunciation: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZMfYjdN-s 
It is important not to add sounds such as m=muh s= suh t=tuh 
Take the word: ‘mat’. If you sound it out as ’muh’ + aa +tuh’ and then blend them together you get ‘muhaaatuh’ a long way off from ‘mmmaat’ and then ‘mat’.
We do not use actions or Jolly Phonics songs. 

Reading books

If you wish to keep the book longer just let us know, you do not have to change them on Monday and Thursday!  Go at your child's pace, find a time of day that suits them, if a page is enough for one session that’s fine.
*Talk about the stories or books shared, can they spot any of the sounds they know, can they tell you about what has been read, have you met any new or interesting words, talk about word meanings, ask what might happen next, ask your child to think about a different ending. 
We have a limited amount of books within our reading scheme, so your child might get given the same book more than once. This is a great opportunity to boost word recognition and fluency when reading. It will also increase confidence as it is a 'known' book and your child might remember it. 

Dates of interest 

 Mon 16th June - Class R trip 

Mon 21st July - Last day of school. 

Reminders