Letter of the week Z

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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…

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Letter of the week Y

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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…

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phonics Singing Letter of the week

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CVCC and CCVC words

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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!

 

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writing fine motor English phonics

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Tricky Words

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The Ducklings have been practising reading and writing their tricky words this week.

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writing Tricky words phonics

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Independent Reading and Understanding

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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.

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reading phonics

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Applying our phonics skills

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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.

       

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writing reading phonics

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Applying our new phonemes

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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.

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reading phonics

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Saluting Soldiers

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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. 

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phonics Speaking and Listening

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Letter of the week k

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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 

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phonics Singing Letter of the week

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Applying our phonic skills

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We are able to apply our phonic knowledge to help us segment and spell words.

      

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phonics Spelling

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Phase 3 Phonics

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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. 

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writing phonics

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Phonics Challenges

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The Ducklings have been showing off their phase 2 phonics knowledge and are using it to independently write words and captions.

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writing phonics

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