Monday, 23rd March

Please continue to use the song below to reinforce the difference between letter names and sounds.

Alphabet Phonics Song – YouTube  – Epic phonics

“Walk the Walls” our classroom phoneme song. This will be updated as new phonemes are taught. .

sh, th, ng, ch, wh, ph, ee, oo, ck, ai, oi, oa, ea, ‘y’ (as in ay), ss, ll, ff, ow, ‘ou’, ‘oi’, ‘igh’, ‘y’ (as in fly), ‘i-e’, ‘o-e’, ‘a-e’, ‘e-e’, ‘a-e’, ‘e-e’, ‘u-e’

Book of the Week! This week, Grace, you can bring in your favourite book this week to share with the class. 

aynsley.sawyers@eastayrshire.org.

 

ANOTHER EXCITING EVENT TO LOOK FORWARD TO, PLEASE SEE THE LINK BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS!

Spring Starbooks Poster

 

Kindest regards,

Aynsley

 

 

Phoneme Strips

 

 

This week’s phoneme is the split phoneme, ‘u-e’. It is really helpful if you encourage your child to practise their words at home as well as in school.

 

Common words – these, much, use, could, would

 

Reading Book(s) Please read your child’s reading book as often as possible. 
Maths

 

WE WILL BE MOVING ON TO FRACTIONS SOON. 

PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD TO COUNT IN 2s and 5s. There are a couple of children still finding this tricky. 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

Paint the Squares – we are working on skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

 

THE CHALLENGE CONTINUES –  PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD TO PRACTISE THIS AT HOME, WE DO IT DAILY IN CLASS BUT A COUPLE OF CHILDREN STILL FIND THIS TRICKY!

  • Counting backwards in 2s from 100.
  • Number bonds to 10 OR 20

Topmarks – Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Topmarks – Hit the Button – this is the site the children are familiar with. They are also aware of how to practise this without going online.

 

OUR NUMBER BOND CHAMPIONS SO FAR ARE – 

Harriet, Isobel and back to Harriet, well done girls!

Can someone beat the highest score?