Blog by Tag: phonics
Letter of the week Z
Little Chicks are learning the letter of the week Z they found objects beginning with Z they wrote the letter Z in the air, they learnt the Z jolly song and wrote Z on their white boards following Captain Seasalt on treasure island.
They used the smart board to choose which picture began with…
Category: Little Chicks
writing phonics Singing Letter of the week
Letter of the week Y
Little Chicks are learning the letter of the week Y they found objects beginning with Y they wrote the letter Y in the air, they learnt the Y jolly song and wrote Y on their white boards following Captain Seasalt on treasure island.
They used the smart board to choose which picture began…
Category: Little Chicks
phonics Singing Letter of the week
CVCC and CCVC words
In Phonics this week we have been practicing and applying our knowledge of CVCC and CCVC words. We have lots of played games, including being word detectives!
Category: Ducklings
writing fine motor English phonics
Tricky Words
The Ducklings have been practising reading and writing their tricky words this week.
Category: Ducklings
Independent Reading and Understanding
This week the Ducklings have the challenge of reading sentences by themselves and showing they understand what they have read by adding features as needed to the pictures.
Category: Ducklings
Applying our phonics skills
We love showing off our new phonics knowledge by reading words with our newly learnt graphemes in, making words by segmenting with our phonics fingers, writing tricky words and even sentences with complete independence now.
Category: Ducklings
Applying our new phonemes
The Ducklings are able to apply their knowledge of new phonemes, both digraphs and trigraphs, to blend and read words accurately. This week we have been learning about the long and short sounds that the grapheme 'oo' makes.
Category: Ducklings
Saluting Soldiers
In Phonics today we introduced the 'ai' digraph through a fun game called 'Saluting Soldiers'. The children had to segment a word to their Captain, who had to blend and write the word.
Category: Ducklings
phonics Speaking and Listening
Letter of the week k
Little Chicks are learning the letter of the week K they found objects beginning with K, they wrote the letter K in the air, they learnt the K jolly song and wrote K on their white boards following Captain Seasalt on treasure island K.
Follow the link for Captain Seasalt letter k …
Category: Little Chicks
phonics Singing Letter of the week
Applying our phonic skills
We are able to apply our phonic knowledge to help us segment and spell words.
Category: Ducklings
Phase 3 Phonics
Today we began our Phonics journey into Phase 3 and looked at the letter 'j'.
The children were very excited to move onto their new phase and were busy applying the new phoneme in writing.
Category: Ducklings
Phonics Challenges
The Ducklings have been showing off their phase 2 phonics knowledge and are using it to independently write words and captions.
Category: Ducklings