The phonic sounds we are going to practice in the next few week are spelled in many different ways in English. For example, the ‘ee’ sound is spelled differently in these words; tree, sea, priest, even, he, baby. 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.
Well done for your hard work in Phonics yesterday.
Today, we are going to practice the digraph ‘ee’. A diagraph means two letters together which make one sound.
Practice saying the sound ‘ee’ and making the ‘ee’ action (Make donkey ears with your hands and say ‘ee-or'(emphasising the ee) like a donkey!)
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 ‘ee’ sound and write them by yourself?
I know that Geraldine the Giraffe is very popular, so here she is learning the ‘ee’ sound too! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfM7Hz7US0U
I am looking forward to hearing all about your phonics today.
Love from Miss Siswick
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Morning Reception! I had cream cheese on my bread for breakfast, earlier this morning. Now it’s time to brush my teeth. I look forward to reading your sentences.
Morning Miss Siswick,
I have written the words in my book.
Here are some more words:
Feet
Feel
Sheet
Beet
Coffee
Miss Lee
Chiara is comfortable reading the sound and recognise the pictures.
she made simple sentences but could find bee, with the ee sound.
pictures sent
Good morning everyone!
Florence wrote these words by herself – leec (leek), teey (tree), teef (teeth).
Good morning Miss,
I have done today’s phonics.
Good morning!
We read all the words on our own, and we wrote down the words from the pictures. We also watch Alphablocks today and they were doing the diagraph ‘ee’. We came up with the words, sheep, bee, beef, Wheel, seeds and beetle. We love Geraldine.
We sent you a picture!
Good morning! Harlow thought of cheese, breeze, sheet, coffee, sheep and feet. We sent a picture of her writing.
Good morning everyone,
I could sound and read.
I could read and write the words.
I just sent my homework.
I found sheep ? beef ? deep sneez
?
Good morning
Ryan did his phonics writing and thought of other words with the EE sound: green, peep, deep and pizza (spelt peeza).
Well done, everyone, for your wonderful phonics this morning. You have all been working very hard practicing reading, think about and writing words with the ‘ee’ sound.
I am very sorry that I am replying so late this morning as I was phoning people at home. Hopefully, I will get to talk to each of you in the next few days. Love from Miss Siswick.
Good morning!
Theo did his writing and thought about sentence.
We will send photo soon
Well done, Theo.
Marcus was fine with the reading and writing. He thought up and wrote a couple of sentences and some other “ee” words, doing the best (phonic) spelling he could!
We sent a photo..
Well done, Marcus.
Hi Miss Siswick, Juliana read and wrote the ee sound and thought about the words: bee, knee and cheese. We have sent you a picture.
Well done, Juliana.
Dear Ms. Siswick,
Nicolas thought these words:
knee, seed, Queen, sheep.
We’ll send a photo.
Well done, Nicolas.
Well done, Tim and Moses.
Rosa could read out all words incorporating the ‘ee’ sound. She made the additional words with prompts; bee, see and free.
Her sentence(s) etc. have been sent to upload. She loves Geraldine (it’s always a brilliant way to start our phonics sessions and keep her motivated). Thank you.
Well done, Rosa.
I haven’t received your photo yet.Can you try to upload it again, please?