Segmenting and blending

This week the children have been revising their phonics knowledge of the sounds taught so far and have focused on – m, a,s,d,t

They have used magnetic letters to form and read cvc words using these sounds –   dog , mad, sad, mat, sat, sam

Some of the children have had a go at  writing short sentences – a dog can yap, a cat in a hat, sit on a hat, get a cat in a hat.

The children in Class 1 have been enjoying reading and listening to stories from the Oxford Owl website.  I have set up a class 1 login for them to access this at home.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

username:  class1bicton

password: bictonschool

Do write in your child’s reading diary if they read some of these books with you.

This week the children have revised qu, ch and ng.

The children though of words containing the digraphs and had a go at spelling them.  Many have used some of their phonic knowledge to write menus for our class cafe.

qu – queen, quick, quarrel, squirrel, quiz

ch – cheese, chips, chocs, chatter, children

ng –  strong, long, song, king, ring

Here is a fun set of games to play that will help your child with segmenting and blending:

https://learn.readwithfonics.com/school/phonics-games/make-a-word?phase=2

This week we have concentrated on numbers.  The children have practised counting to 10, 20 and even higher!

We have ordered numbers, said which numbers are bigger or smaller, estimated how many objects then carefully counted.

The class has shown an interest in setting up a Cafe this week, so next week we will be concentrating on money – role play shop / cafe / burger van / ice cream parlour.

We would be grateful if you have any spare 1p and 2p coins if you could donate them to the class to give the role play a more authentic experience for the children.

Also if you have any old pots/ pans / trays / bowls / cutlery etc, we would love them for our role play areas.

A king is born 

The children and staff are very excited that it is that time of year again for the Christmas production!

A letter has been sent home with the part your child will be playing in the production and details of any items of clothing they might need to bring in from home.

We have some costumes in school for the children to use, but would appreciate any that can be provided from home.

If you have any difficulty getting hold of any of this, please don’t hesitate to let us know.  Please bring your child’s costume from home in a named carrier bag no later than Monday 4^th of  December.

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to come and ask us.