The phonic sounds we are going to practice in the next few weeks, are spelled in many different ways in English. For example, the ‘oo’ sound is spelled differently in these words; boot, you, who, fruit, June, through, shoe and lose. Children will encounter these different spellings when reading books.
In Phonics however, we are focussing on reading and writing using these phonemes; ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, at, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure and er.
This is because this helps early writers to sound out, read and write words and simple sentences in ways which match their spoken sounds, without support from an adult, which is the goal for the end of Reception Class. We aim for all children to become ‘phonetically fearless’ and to enjoy their reading and writing. The ‘correct’ spellings come later, when the child is a more confident writer. Therefore, please don’t correct spellings if the way that they are written matches the phonic sound that they have learned and can be read by your child and others. Many thanks for your support in this.
Good Morning, Reception.
I hope that you had a lovely weekend. Well done for your hard work in Phonics last week.
Today, we are going to practice the digraph ‘oo’. A diagraph means two letters together which make one sound.
Practice saying the sound ‘oo’ and making the ‘oo’ action. There are two ways of saying ‘oo’ (‘oo’ as in room and ‘oo’ as in book) and we will practice them both today.
Can you sound out and read these words?
Can you sound out and write these words by yourself?
Can you write a sentence by yourself about one of the pictures?
Challenge: Can you think of any more words with the ‘oo’ sound and write them by yourself?
I know that Geraldine the Giraffe is very popular, so here she is learning the ‘oo’ sound too!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UUnmNk1UM
I am looking forward to hearing all about your phonics today.
Love from Miss Siswick
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Good Morning Miss Siswick and Happy Monday!!
Chiara can sound, read and write the words of today and found the words : school, zoo, poo and roof
Well done, Chiara.
Some very neat writing from James this morning in his homework book. We then found some hooks and a cookbook in the house as Geraldine did.
Well done, James.
Good morning Miss, Ruby-Mae find easy to recognise and sound out the sound. She find the words on her own.
Well done, Ruby-Mae.
Good morning!
We had a nice weekend, did you?
We read all the words on our own. We wrote down the words for the pictures and came up with a couple of other ones.
Spoon, cows go moo and I say boo to scare someone.
We sent you a picture.
Well done, Philippa. I had a nice weekend, thank you. I am glad that you did too.
Good morning
Ryan read all the words with ease. He wrote the words (scooter was challenging)
Well done, Ryan.
Good morning!
Theo did his work,will send photo soon.
Well done, Theo.
Good morning Miss,
Maya managed really well with this sound. We will send her writing. She came up with roof, (yoo)unicorn, boogie, Baloo, boost
Well done, Maya.
Hello everyone..hope you are all staying safe and enjoying the sunshine. Looks like you are working hard at your phonics challenges.Keep up the hard work.?
We wanted to say “Hi” to Ms O’Connell and Ms Pereira, we miss you!
Marcus wrote the words and came up with 7 of his own. Does “door” count as an “oo” word? It’s a different sound!
He made up two sentences by himself, one with 3 of the “oo” words, we’ve sent a photo..
Well done, Marcus. You are right-Door is one of the words that is spelled with an ‘oo’ but sounds like ‘or’
Hi – Rocco enjoyed today’s phonics
He managed the writing today , and it was easier to think of other words to write
Well done, Rocco.
The pers ps on the boots –
The person puts on their boots.
Well done, Florence.
Nicolas thought of these words:
Hood, wood, spooky and swimming-pool
Well done, Nicolas.