Mrs Duncan was a very proud teacher today!  The P1s worked hard to spell a range of words using the magnetic boards.  They tried to orally repeat the word they were trying to spell to help them identify the sounds.  The longest word they managed to spell was ‘underpants’, which of course, they were delighted with! 🙂

They also played a pirate treasure game.  They were very enthusiastic about this new game and were keen to play it at home.  Click here if you wish to give it a try.  Click on the ‘CVC’ option.  The children have to read each word and decide if it is real treasure (a real word) or pretend treasure (pretend word).  Reading words that aren’t real encourages children to truly develop their skills in sounding out rather than just memorising a word.