This week the children have looked at :

‘o’ – All around the orange.      o

‘c’ – Curl around the caterpillar     c

READING
Fred the Frog puppet plays an important role in our Read Write Inc lessons. Fred is only able to speak in sounds, not whole words. We call this Fred Talk.  For example, Fred  would say m-a – t we would say mat. Fred talk helps children read unfamiliar words by pronouncing each sound in the word  one at a time. Children can start blending sounds into words as soon as they know a small group of letters well. During lessons children are taught to hear sounds and  blend them together in sequence to make a word. We start with blending oral sounds, then progress to reading the letters and blending them together to read the word.
The following video is an example of blending sounds with Fred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzfpod5w_Q

Order of teaching sounds
In Read Write Inc phonics the individual sounds are called ‘speed sounds’ –
because we want your child to read them effortlessly. Set 1 sounds are the initial
letter sounds. They are taught in the following order.
m, a, s, d, t, i, n, p, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh, r, j, v, y, w, th, z, ch, qu, x, ng, nk

Word time Lessons
As soon as children have learnt a few initial letter sounds they begin to learn to
blend the sounds together to read real words in a Word Time session. Each word
time session involves oral blending of known sounds before they are shown the
words written down on green cards. Children practice Fred talking the words until
they become able to read them on sight. Once children are confident reading the short sentences they are challenged to use their developing phonic knowledge to write a sentence.  There are plenty of opportunities for children to choose to write within the inside and outside class room areas.

Year 1: Word time and Ditty lessons.  The children need to read and write whole sentences linked to the sounds / story.

We will be continuing with Forest School sessions next week and after half term

Over the last 2 weeks the children have looked at:

‘n’ – Down Nobby and over the net.       n

‘p’ Down the plait, up and over the pirates face.      p

‘g’  Round the girls face, down her hair and give her a curl.      g

Reception children have orally segmented and blended CV  and CVC words that can be made with all the sounds we have covered so far  (m a s d t i n p g)

as, at, in

mat, mad, sad, Sam, tin, pin, sat, pat, pit, pad, dad, dig    etc

Year 1 children have put these words into sentences and recorded some.  Year 1 children have also completed word and sentence level work based on the ditties ‘Let’s Run’ and  ‘A fun hat’.

All children have practised handwriting each sound covered.

The children have been having so much fun in their Forest School sessions, we have decided to continue the after half term.  Please ensure your child has suitable outer clothes (ones you don’t mind them getting dirty), that are waterproof and warm.

This week our Class Nursery rhyme is ‘Miss Polly’.  Class 1 have started to learn the rhyme and have been busy looking after the babies in class!

So far this term the children have covered the following sounds:

‘m’ – Down Maisie then over the two mountains. Maisie, mountain, mountain.     m

‘a’ – around the apple and down the leaf    a

‘s’ – slither down the snake   s

‘d’ – Round the dinosaur’s back, up his neck and down to his feet      d

‘t’ – down the tower and across the tower    t

‘i’ – Down the insects body, dot for the head    i

For more information about how we teach phonics and how to support your child at home – https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/

Year 1 children have focused on word time activities appropriate to their stage.