Phonics
Michelle: we have been learning more about the ‘ch’ sound.
Mara: we have been learning the ‘th’ sound.
Scott: it is a cheeky sound because you stick your tongue out.
Amelia: it is a light blue sound in any words.
Anna: it is dark blue too. You use the dark blue ‘th’ sound in a sight word.
Shea: they are different colours.
Carter: that sound is a ‘t’ and a ‘h’.
Freya: the ‘th’ sound and the ‘f’ sound the same. The ‘f’ sound is pink and the ‘th’ sound is blue.
Roma: bath has the ‘th’ sound at the end.
Rojin: path has the ‘th’ sound at the end.
Celine: think has the ‘th’ sound at the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5odH4nSjE
Please note that next week is a revision week for phonics and word boost – no new sounds in sounds jotter and no parent postcards for word boost.
New sight words or sight words information will be sent home with homework on Monday.
Writing
Pati: we are having a party for the castle.
Anna: we are having a banquet and we had to write an invitation.
Luke: you had to write what people would need to know.
Shea: we had to write where it is.
Carter: they had to know when it is. The 8th of March.
Jane: It is at 11am.
Carter: people might not come if you don’t make it exciting.
Some of the exciting things we included in our invitations:
Luke: There will cakes and castles.
Jane: I wrote that there are books because my mummy loves reading.
Mara: There will be a crown.
Paul: There is cake.
Word Boost
Roma: we were reading a book called ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’.
Carter: the giant gave his belt to the dog who was trying to cross the bog and his trousers fell down.
Anna: he gave his shoe to a mouse because they didn’t have a home.
Jane: in the story a goat needed a sail and the smartest giant gave his t-shirt away for the sail.
Shea: the giraffe’s neck was cold so he gave away his tie to the giraffe because it looked like a scarf.
Luke: a boost word is smart it means you look tidy.
Rojin: a boost word is perfect it means it can’t be any better.
Michelle: a boost word is comfortable it means you are very very warm
Jane: you would feel cosy too
Anna: a boost word is match it means that it is the same as something else.
Numeracy
Shea: you can use your fingers to subtract.
Roma: the rekenreks and the blocks help if there was a tricky sum. You could have 12 then you took 11 away the rekenreks and blocks would help you.
Carter: we have been doing take away and 12 take away 11 is 1, I just knew it because 11 is 1 less 12.
Amelia: you can use your head to do subtraction. You put a number in your head and use your fingers to count back.
Lucas: if you subtract the number gets smaller.
Topic
Anna: we were learning about Edinburgh castle.
Paul: there is a 1 o’clock gun it makes a bang noise at 1 o’clock.
Luke: there are stairs they aren’t straight they are a wee bit bendy.
Jane: there is a crown in the castle.
Shea: we made our canons with a balloon, tape and a toilet roll tube.
Luke: you have to pull the balloon and you let go and the ball comes out.
Our castle banquet is on Friday. Please arrive for 11am and make your way to the infant hall (lunch hall).
Thank you
