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.)