We had lots of fun learning the sound ‘j’ when we made jelly in our class.

We all got a chance to follow instructions to make our own jelly and then took it home for a yummy treat at the end of the day.

After making the jelly we wrote instructions in our writing jotters.

Primary 1 Making Jelly Recipe

You will need:

One sachet jelly

One bowl

One spoon

Kettle

Jug

Moulds

Fridge

Method:

1. First wash your hands.
2. Pour jelly sachet into bowl.
3. Measure two cups hot water
4. Pour hot water into bowl.
5. Mix until all jelly melts.
6. Pour jelly into moulds
7. Place in fridge to set.

We learned our first double sound today in Jolly Phonics!

A double sound has two letters that make one sound in a word.

We learned that when two vowels go walking together in a word the first one shouts its name. Listen to the song link below to find out more.

We then used our new sound ‘ai’ to blend some words.

Tips for phonics at Home:

Remember the difference between the sound a letter makes (e.g ssss) and the name e.g S (esss). Try to reinforce this at home in discussions.

Today we learned the sound ‘l’ in Jolly Phonics. It was very exciting because ‘l’ is the special sound of many of the children in our class. Lori, Lucy MacInnes, Lucy Vallance and Leo all stood up because their names start with L.

We worked with Miss Reid the P4 teacher to complete leaf rubbings today. It was good fun because leaf begins with ‘l’ and we got to practice our fine motor control rubbing the crayon over the leaf.

Tips for Phonics at home:

Try speaking in blends to your child e.g can you pass the m-i-l-k. This will encourage your child to listen for the word the sounds make as they blend together.

We learned two interesting sounds today! We learned that the letters ‘c’, ‘k’ and ‘ck’ all make the same sound.

The picture in our Big Book today showed a Spanish dancer clicking castanets, so we watched a clip of Spanish dancing and gave it a go!

Tips for Phonics at Home:

Try to encourage your child to hear the sounds at the end of words as well as at the beginning. This forms an important part of blending and reading development.  When discussing the sound learned each day as your child to identify where in the word they hear the sound, the start, middle or end?

We learned our new sound ‘p’ today in Jolly Phonics.

To help us learn the letter formation whilst also working out those tricky fine motor muscles, we made our sound using playdough!

Tips for Phonics at Home:

Use three coloured pens to write a rainbow letter ‘p’.

(Write the initial letter in pencil and trace over three times with colours of your child’s choice.)

We learned our new sound ‘i’ today in Jolly Phonics.

We learned about letters and sounds using ICT today. Our favourite website had lots of images to help us identify the inital sounds of words.

Tips for phonics at home:

Access the website Starfall ABC. In the ABC section select our new sound ‘i’ and explore images and clips related to this sound.

http://www.starfall.com/

We learned our new sound ‘t’ in Jolly Phonics today.

We had lots of fun using a tennis ball and large letters to practice letter formation. We also made our own tinfoil letter ‘t’.

Tips for phonics at home:

Try searching for the letter ‘t’ in a newspaper, magazine or webpage. There will be lots to find!

We learned the sound ‘a’ in Jolly Phonics today.

We had a go at writing the letter ‘a’ at our writing table, have a look at our work!

Tips for phonics at home:

• Try taking a notepad to the supermarket with you and note down all the items that begin with the sound ‘a’.