Category Archives: Literacy

Outdoor Phonics

The sun shone, so we took the chance to go outside and write our phonics on the ground in chalk.  We even started to blend some letters together!  We can recognise sat, pin, net etc. Ask your child to write letters and sound them out.  They might even see and sound out the words at bedtime stories. Remember only to use the sounds we know!

 

Red Riding Hood

We listened to the story of Red Riding Hood and discussed the story. We really didn’t like the Big Bad Wolf.  Today was our first time at over writing our stories and we managed very well.  We are very proud of ourselves . We also sequenced the story, which proved a bit tricky.

The teacher scribes what they have told them about their picture. Then they over write what the teacher has written.
Concentrating takes a lot of effort.
We are learning to hold a pencil and write.
Our storyboard.
It was tricky to cut and stick and place the story in order!

Letter Sounds

We have been learning letter sounds “a”, “s”,  “t”, “p”,  “n”, “i” , “c” and “k”.  We can now blend them together and read and make words such as “cat”, “pin” and “pick”.   We used our chopped wood loose parts to make our words then someone suggested that we try our names….

This Week’s Mystery Reader

Every week we will have a “Mystery Reader” arrive in the 1.4 ” Reading Garden”.  They will read a book that they love and share with the children.  This encourages the children to foster a love of reading and realize that lots of people love to read!

This week’s “Mystery Reader” was Mrs McConnalogue, who is one of our fantastic Principal Teachers.   She read ” When A Monster Is Born”  by Sean Taylor and Nick Sharratt.   It was such a good book and we all joined in with ” …There are two possibilities!”

Listening intently.
We love reading books.
Mrs McConnaloge explains about the different parts of the book.
” When A Monster Is Born” by Sean Taylor and Nick Sherratt.