Author: Mrs Wood

We’ll soon begin Phase 4 of Letters and Sounds. In this phase, children will continue to practise previously learned graphemes and phonemes and learn how to read and write:

CVCC words: tent, damp, toast, chimp. For example, in the word ‘toast’, t = consonant,  oa = vowel,  s = consonant,  t = consonant.

CCVC words: swim, plum, sport, cream, spoon. For example, in the word ‘cream’, c = consonant, r = consonant, ea = vowel, m = consonant.

They will be learning more tricky words and continuing to read and write sentences together.

Tricky words:
said, so, do, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what

Ways you can support your child at home

• Practise reading and spelling some CVCC and CCVC words but continue to play around with CVC words. Children like reading and spelling words that they have previously worked with, as this makes them feel successful.
• Make up captions and phrases for your child to read and write, for example, a silver star, clear the pond, crunch crisps. Write some simple sentences and leave them around the house for your child to find and read. After they have found and read three, give them a treat!
• Look out for words in the environment, such as on food packaging, which your child will find easy to read, for example, lunch, fresh milk, drink, fish and chips, jam.
• Work on reading words together, for example, a street name such as Park Road, captions on buses and lorries, street signs such as bus stop.

It’s time for children to consider if they would like to stand for election for our new School Council.  With two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers, all children at Moortown Primary are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.

Elections for our new school council will take place next Thursday 09 February with our polling station and ballot boxes at the ready.  Candidates will have the opportunity to give their election speech to their class on Wednesday 08 February.

What makes a good school councillor has been considered by our current school council.

‘Communicating with others – pupils and adults.’
‘Having good listening skills to know what to contribute in meetings.’
‘Thinking of realistic ideas to suggest in meetings.’
‘Considering other people’s views even if you don’t agree with them.’

If your child would like to stand, please could you help them to prepare a speech.

Hints for their speech include:

What skills and abilities would a good school councillor have?
What are they particularly good at that would help them to be a great school councillor?
What do they think would make the school better? What could they do that people would really like?
Think of things that are realistic, maybe that they could do themselves, rather than having to ask other people to do?

Good luck to all children who decide to stand in the elections.

If you choose not to stand in the election then you should consider the importance of voting.

Don’t forget our class assembly is on Wednesday 01 February at 2.40pm.

See you there!

 

We’ve been learning how to compare sets of objects using the language ‘more’ and ‘fewer’. The children were challenged to prove a set had fewer objects than another.

This is how they presented their learning.

  

Thank you to everyone who attended the phonics sessions last week. We hope you found them useful.

Here are some captions and sentences your child can write at home. The new phonemes ar, ai, er, or, air, oi, ear, oo, igh, ow, ee, ur  These will be taught over the next few weeks.

• Mark and Carl got wet in the rain.
• The farmer gets up at six in the morning.
• Jill has fair hair but Jack has dark hair.
• Jim has seven silver coins.
• I can hear an owl hoot at night.
• Nan is sitting in the rocking-chair.
• Bow down to the king and queen.
• Gurdeep had a chat with his dad.
• I can see a pair of boots on the mat.
• It has been hot this year.

Don’t forget to attend our phonics mornings this week.

You’ll be able to see how the children are progressing and find out how you can help to support them at home.

These sessions will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9am.

See you there!

The children are enjoying the new clock in the home corner and are teaching each other how to tell the time!

This week we have been learning about estimating.

The children had to estimate the number of bears that could can fit inside Ewan’s shoe.

Lots of children accurately guessed 9!

Then they had a go at guessing how many bears my boot would hold!

 

The children enjoyed reading their bananas this week!

 

We have begun phase 3 of the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics programme.

The purpose of this phase is to:

• teach more graphemes, most of which are made of two letters, for example, ‘oa’ as in boat
• practise blending and segmenting a wider set of CVC words, for example, fizz, chip, sheep, light
• learn all letter names and begin to form them correctly
• read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them
• read and write words in phrases and sentences

Here are some examples of words your children will be reading: tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil

Tricky words
During phase 3 the children will learn more ‘tricky words’: he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all, said

In addition, during this phase children will be expected to begin to write sentences independently.

If you have any questions, please ask and do attend our next phonics open mornings on Wednesday 18, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 January.