Category: Home Practice

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!