The phonic sounds we are going to practice in the next few weeks, are spelled in many different ways in English. For example, the ‘or’ sound is spelled differently in these words; bought, taught, saw, sure, fault, door, more. 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, ar, 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 ‘or’. A diagraph means two letters together which make one sound.
Practice saying the sound ‘or’ and making the ‘or’ action.
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 ‘or’ sound and write them by yourself?
I know that Geraldine the Giraffe is very popular, so here she is learning the ‘or’ sound too! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9PRHDJlv4
I am looking forward to hearing all about your phonics today.
Love from Miss Siswick
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Good morning miss siswick!
We read all the words and wrote down what we saw in the pictures, swore, horn, fork. We made a sentence: the fork was in his mouth.
We try finding new words: store, pork, short and morning.
We loved Geraldine!
We sent you a picture!
Well done, Philippa. Great writing too.
Picture sent
Well done, James. You look very proud of your neat writing.
Good morning Miss!!
Rocco watched Geraldine the giraffe and could think of lots of words with OR in them
Rocco hurt his neck yesterday so his writing is a bit ‘sloppy’ today but he tried his best!
Well done, Rocco. I hope that your neck feels better soon.
Good morning !! Chiara did her phonics today and found the words, unicorn, corn ,sweetcorn,formula
Well done, Chiara. Lovely writing.
César just sent the photo !
I just saw it! Great writing, Cesar.
Good morning Reception. Great to see such beautiful writing. Enjoy the sunshine and keep safe?keep up the good work.
Good morning
Ryan read all the words and did the writing- extra words include morning, more and corn.
He wrote the sentence – The sord (sword) was in the house.
Well done, Ryan. Great writing.
Amber wrote horn, forc and sord.
Her sentence: The nit (knight) yoses (uses) the sord.
Her words: porc (pork), dor (door), and thorn
Sending a photo
Well done, Amber. Great writing.
Good morning,
Maya came up with the words ‘north (pole)’, ‘door’, ‘poor’. We will send the photos of her writing. We are reading Cat’s Picnic together.
Well done, Maya.
Good morning!
Teo did very well, will send a photo soon.
Well done, Theo.
I iyt wif mi fork.
I eat with my fork.
Well done, Florence. Great writing.
Marcus enjoyed thinking up “or” words and writing sentences with as many “or” words as possible! We sent a photo…
Well done, Marcus. I wish that we could fight the Coronavirus with a sword!
Nicolas thought of the words: corn and storm.
Well done, Nicolas.