This week the children have focused on:

c k u  b

They read words containing these sound, e.g. –  bin   cat  cot  can  kit  mud  up   cup  bad  back   kick   lock

We also looked at some nonsense words (alien words) –  tog   bon   pim  bup

The digraphs we have concentrated on have been:

oo – look at a book

ar –  start the car

or – shut the door

Parent information can be found here: http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/parents/

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