We have been doing lots of work on adjectives this week to use in our writing and extend it. We had to describe the monsters.
Category: Literacy
Learning spelling and phonics
We learn our phonics and spelling actively in class. There are so many ways to do this. here are just a few examples of what we do in class. There are so many ways to learn!
Boggle: The first letter is given and you then have to use the available letters in the box to make words with three or more letters.
Writing in rice.
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Making our words with play doh.
Writing our curly words.
Making our words with play doh.
Writing our words with dots.
Writing Stories
We write in class all the time, but on our special writing day, we focus on spelling, finger spaces, full stops and capital letters. All attempts are welcome and praised . Some of us have a “rubber habit” , when we need to rub out every two seconds! This is discouraged! We learn from our mistakes for next time! Almost all of the children are now writing independently.
Boggle
Playing “Boggle” is a really good way for children to learn to spell and challenge themselves. The children were challenged to make three, four and five letter words using the first letter “V”, ” m”, “s” etc . They then add the letters from the “Boggle” board. We got some great words today! : )
We learn our spelling patterns and phonics through active learning. Mrs Arbuckle bought us new play doh and we got to work!
Spelling Sticks
Some of us have tried to spell using the lollisticks this week. We have to unscramble the letters to make words. It took us a few attempts, but we got there in the end!
Beautiful Writing
We started to learn joined up writing. Mrs Arbuckle was very surprised at our first attempt as we were so good at it. We were very proud of ourselves.
Alphabet
Now that we know our sounds, we start to learn the alphabet, capital letters, letter names and alphabetical order.
We learned the letter names last week and had to say it and write down the letters. It was quite tricky.
Making Words
We used our knowledge of phonics and spelling to cut put letters from magazines and newspapers and make words. It was quite tricky to do.
We Love A Good Story
Mrs Arbuckle reads stories to the class every day. This fosters a love of books and models good reading skills. The children also see grammatical structure and learn new vocabulary. It also helps develop their imagination in writing stories .
The children voluntary choose books from our class library to read. They love to “be the teacher” and read to one another. Reading is a life long skill. Reading a book is such a good skill to learn.
