{"id":397,"date":"2025-09-30T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/?p=397"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:25:19","slug":"p1-literacy-practice-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/2025\/09\/30\/p1-literacy-practice-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"P1 Literacy Practice at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are learning the sounds &lt;m&gt; and &lt;d&gt;. Here are some activities you can do at home to support what your child is learning in school:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make the letters m M d and D out of playdough.<\/li>\n<li>Think of words that begin with the letters m and d and write them down or draw them.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Draw the letters that you know so far (s a t p i n m and d) on a family member&#8217;s back and see if they can guess it. Take turns so that you can guess, too.<\/li>\n<li>Write the letters d D m and M all over a sheet of paper. Challenge your child to colour code the letters &#8211; can you make all the d yellow, all the D green, all the m blue etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 &#8220;drive&#8221; 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 <strong>I<\/strong> and <strong>to<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I have issued a new reading book on our Boost Learning website. This is our first &#8220;proper&#8221; reading book with words. Please check the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zg9AflzPNic\">video<\/a> for some tips and tricks on reading with your child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are learning the sounds &lt;m&gt; and &lt;d&gt;. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/2025\/09\/30\/p1-literacy-practice-at-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;P1 Literacy Practice at Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary12withmrskane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}