We worked hard to spell some very tricky words during our spelling stations today.  We did pyramid writing, dot-to-dot writing, crossword writing and made/wrote our words with shaving foam, playdough, lego cubes, painting tools on the computer and using the iPads.

Some of us are also becoming increasingly independent with our reading and are now reading one of our books with peer rather than teacher support.  We still have some time reading with Mrs Duncan too.

This term we will learn to become increasingly independent in all literacy tasks. We will have the opportunity to develop our skills in supporting and teaching our friends each week during our magnetic spelling activities. We started this today.  We had to collect all 26 letters of the alphabet first and arrange them in alphabetical order. We were wonderfully supportive to each other.  We then tried reading a word to a friend and got him/her to try making the word. Some words were very long!

The elephants also found out about a special story (mnemonic) that could help them learn how to spell ‘because’ correctly. Try asking them more about this at home. They tried to beat each other by racing to write ‘because’ as many times as they could manage in 1 minute.  They displayed their usual competitive attitudes! ! 🙂 We will be creating our own special (mnemonic) story on Thursday!