Category: Home Practice

This week we are looking at the phoneme /igh/ written <igh>.

Here are our spelling words for this week:

Please practise these words at home. You can choose one or more activities from your spelling menu below if you want:

I have also given your child new words for their word tubs. Please practise sounding out and blending at home. We will do our spell check and I will collect the word tubs after the October holidays.

Have fun!

 

This week we are learning the sound /g/. We have been exploring how to form the letter g and we have been sounding out CVC words with g.

Here are some extra activities you can do at home with your child if you wish:

• Put some shaving foam, dry rice, or similar and ask your child to write the letters G and g. Ensure that they use correct letter formation.

• Go on an autumn walk and collect some different materials to make the letters G and g with them. You could use conkers, acorns, small pebbles, twigs, leaves etc.
• Play “I spy” and find things beginning with g. This is a great game to play with all of our other sounds, too! You can even play it with sounds that we have not yet learned as it helps to develop your child’s phonemic awareness.

I have put new words in your child’s word tub. Please practise these words at home. Encourage your child to place a finger underneath each sound and sound it out. Then “drive through” the sounds and blend them together. Finally, ask your child to tell you the word. I will collect the word tubs when we return from the October holidays.

Have fun!

This week we are learning the sounds <m> and <d>. Here are some activities you can do at home to support what your child is learning in school:

• Make the letters m M d and D out of playdough.
• Think of words that begin with the letters m and d and write them down or draw them.
• Think of animals that begin with the letters m or d. You could make a colourful poster of them and bring it to school to show us.
• Draw the letters that you know so far (s a t p i n m and d) on a family member’s back and see if they can guess it. Take turns so that you can guess, too.
• Write the letters d D m and M all over a sheet of paper. Challenge your child to colour code the letters – can you make all the d yellow, all the D green, all the m blue etc.

I have also given out word boxes for your child to practise reading at home. These words are fully decodeable. Encourage your child to sound out each letter first, then “drive” through the sounds with their fingers at they blend the sounds together. I will add common exception words throughout the week to the word box that cannot be sounded out. This week we are learning I and to.

It would be helpful if your child could bring the word tub to school every day in case we want to practise reading the words in school.

I have issued a new reading book on our Boost Learning website. This is our first “proper” reading book with words. Please check the video for some tips and tricks on reading with your child.

This week we are learning the phoneme <ai>. Here are the words we are practising this week:

You can choose one or more activities from our spelling activity sheet below:

I have also given your child a word box containing some decodeable words. Please practise reading these at home with your child whenever possible. I will endeavour to replace the words weekly. To help your child, you could ask them to underline phonemes that are made up of more than one single sound like I have done with our spelling words on the board.

Reading homework is available on our Boost Learning website.

This week, we are revising <oo> words.

Here are your child’s spelling words for this week:

Choose one or two activities from the sheet below to practise your spelling words. You can always do a mock spell check to see how well you know your words already.

Have fun!

This week we are learning the sound <n>. This is the last sound in our first set of sounds and we will be spending a week or two revision all of our six sounds that we have learned so far. We will also continue practising sounding out and blending CVC (3 letter) words.

Here are some activities that you could do with your child at home to practise this week’s sound:

• Make the letter n with things that you find around the house and garden, like coins, paperclips or rocks. Please work with an adult as these items may be quite small and could be choke hazards.
• Use a white crayon to write the letter n all over a piece of white paper. Then use some watery paint to paint the sheet of paper and reveal your letters!

I have also issued another board game this week. This game practises all of our sounds so far. Enjoy practising your literacy work this week!

We have been busy revising our phonics from last year, starting with <ch>, <th> and <sh>.

This week we are looking at <ee> which the children have been finding a bit tricky. Here are our spelling words for this week:

You can practise these words at home. Primary 2s will receive a wallet with a whiteboard, a pen and a rubber on Tuesday that they can use for some of the activities below. The following are suggestions to practise spelling words but please feel free to practise in whatever way works best for you and your child. Please click on the image below to enlarge:

This week we are learning the sounds <p> and <i> in our Literacy lessons.

In addition to reading with your child every day, you could do some of the following activities if you wish:

• Think of things that begin with the letters p and i and draw them.
• Rainbow write the letters p and i – pick a handful of different pens, pencils or crayons. Write the letters with a pencil first and then ask your child to trace them with different colours, multiple times.
• If your child comes along with you to do the food shop, challenge them to find as many different fruit and vegetables as they can that start with the letter p.
• Play letter detective by searching all of the <i> and <p> in a book or a magazine.
• Practise all of our letters so far (s, a, t, p, i) by drawing a letter on each others backs with your finger and guessing which letter it is.
• Sing along to our phonics songs: for the letter p and for the letter i.

Your child has also received a new literacy game to practise the new sounds. Have fun practising!

Primary 1s are practising <s> <a> and their new sound <t> this week. Primary 2s are revising <sh> <ch> and <th>.

To practise, you can play our “Spin the Sound” game. This is all about identifying the initial sound of the pictures on the board. We have been practising the game in class so your child should be able to share with you how to play it and how to spin the paperclip around the pencil tip.

Could the games and counters please be returned on Monday 8th September.

Thank you and have fun!