This afternoon children in Class One explored the school grounds finding lots of different smells.

They came up with lots of different words to describe the smells in the environment.

Today Table 2 had a go at identifying the mystery smells.

We talked about how are sense of smell can warn us if something is dangerous to eat or drink and how we should never drink anything that we don’t know what it is.

Can you tell by looking at the bottles what they contain?  Our sense of smell helped us identify the liquids.

Reception children have been very busy learning their letters and sounds today.  They have been revising all the sounds taught so far.  Today they used the new interactive board to play a game where they had to make the word by choosing the correct phonemes.

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