Category: P1 Home Practice

This week we are learning two new sounds: <e> and <u>.

You can do the following activities with your child at home if you wish:

• Spot letters Ee and Uu on signs and advertisements on your next drive or shopping trip.
• Draw big “bubble letters” of E, e, and U, u and ask your child to trace them with different patterns.
• Think of things that begin with e or u and draw them. You can make a poster if you want.
• Practice letter formation of e and u.

You can also play this game to improve phonetic awareness. Choose the initial sounds for an easier game, the last sound for a medium challenge and the middle sound for a harder challenge.

Please also check Boost Learning for this week’s reading books.

This week we are continuing to review our sounds so far with a focus on letter formation.

Please practise writing our letters using the tracing sheet and whiteboard pen. As an extra challenge, you could ask your child to write a letter on a white or lined sheet of paper, e.g. “Can you write the letter /m/?” This will practise letter recognition and letter formation.

Please continue to practise our I can Blend words in your child’s word tub. Please return tubs on a Wednesday to receive the new weekly words.

This week we are continuing to look at our /k/ phoneme, exploring <ck> in particular. We will also review all sounds we have learned so far.

Please continue to use the game cards I have passed home last week to practise all of the sounds we have learned so far at home.

I have also given your child a “I spy” sheet to find things with <ck>. Can your child highlight or colour the <ck> grapheme in each word and then count how many of each item they can find? Write the number of items in the box next to the word and picture. This is also a great opportunity to develop pencil grip and fine motor skills by asking your child to colour the items neatly. This activity does not have to be completed but is available for you to work on if you wish to.