This week the Reception children have been:

Learning  and practising letters/sounds l/ll and ss  and practising the letters/sounds learned so far – s/ a/ t/ p / i/ n/ m/ g/ o/ c/ k/ ck/ e/ u/ r/ h/ b/ f/ ff   

Blending and reading the high frequency words of, dad, mum, up                                           Reading and spelling captions using week 1 to 5 letters and high frequency words no, go, to and, the, to.

This week in Year 1 the children have been:

Learning and  practising letters/sounds long oo short oo, ar, or

Reading the high frequency words look, for, too

Reading and writing captions and sentences

For help with the letter pronunciations here is a link with many videos, which cover all that we teach in school, plus the option to download phonics apps.     http://mrthorne.com/

Another useful video to watch on pronunciation can be found here –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2Ddf_0Om8

We also use the TES iboard phonics programs in school which really help the children to blend and segment.  http://www.iboard.co.uk/teacher/bictonclass1/1

The children have also been learning songs to go with each letter sound, you can practise these at home too – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2Ddf_0Om8