Week commencing 22.05.22

ar       or      ur      ee

^{We are practising these decodable words:}

farm   barn    torn   fork   sheep   cheek

^{We are practising these tricky words:}

was  the  my  me  like

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^{Week Commencing 16.05.22}

^{We are revisiting phase 3 sounds and this week we are focusing on these digraphs:}

air       ure       er

^{We are practising these decodable words:}

fair  pair  manure  pure  boxer  rocker

^{We are practising these tricky words:}

her

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^{Week Commencing 03.05.22}

^{We are revisiting phase 3 sounds and this week we are focusing on these digraphs:}

oa  or   ur    ar

^{We are practising these decodable words:}

road   coat  worn  for  turn  hurt  jar  bark

^{We are practising these tricky words:}

they  was  all

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^{Week Commencing 25.04.22}

^{We are revisiting phase 3 sounds and this week we are focusing on these digraphs:}

ai  ee  igh  oo  oo

^{We are practising these decodable words:}

tail  weep    might  look   food

^{We are practising these tricky words:}

she   he  you

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Week Commencing 19.04.22</sup>

^{We are revisiting phase 3 sounds and this week we are focusing on these digraphs:}

^{th     qu    ng    ch    sh}

^{We are practising these decodable words:}

^{ship   check  song  quick  this}

^{We practising these tricky words:}
be   me   we   he

Week commencing 28.03.22

We have reached the end of learning our phase 3 phonics sounds. Wow - how grown-up! It would be brilliant for your child to keep practising all of the sounds below at home. We will be recapping these sounds lots and lots over the next few weeks! It is very normal for the children to find some of these sounds a bit trickier than others at the moment. 

FD challenge - Miss Deighton wonders if you can think of any words that have these sounds in?

Week commencing 14.03.22

 Please keep a look out for our new sounds and tricky words of the week, in your reading diaries:

New sounds:        ow        oi        ear

Tricky words of the week:              my       like  

Week commencing 07.03.22

 Please keep a look out for our new sounds and tricky words of the week, in your reading diaries:

New sounds:        ar        or         ur

Tricky words of the week:        they      all  
 

Week commencing 28.02.22

 Please keep a look out for our new sounds and tricky words of the week, in your reading diaries:

New sounds:        oa        oo         oo

Tricky words of the week:        they      all  

Remember: 'oo' can make 2 different sounds. We find it in words such as:
book, look, cooking

and 

zoom, boot, food

Please practise both sounds.

Week commencing 21.02.22

How exciting! This week, we will learn our first trigraphs. These are 3 letters that make 1 sound. Please keep a look out for our new sounds and tricky words of the week, in your reading diaries:

New sounds:        ai        ee         igh

Tricky words of the week:        you  

Week commencing 07.02.22

How exciting! This week, our sounds are all digraphs. These are 2 letters that make 1 sound. Please keep a look out for our new sounds and tricky words of the week, in your reading diaries:

New sounds:        sh         th         ng

Tricky words of the week:        was  

Week commencing 31.01.22

How exciting! This week, our sounds are all digraphs. These are 2 letters that make 1 sound. Please keep a look out for our new sounds and tricky words of the week, in your reading diaries:

New sounds:        zz          ch          qu

Tricky words of the week:        she     me   

Week commencing 24.01.22

Remember to read these as pure sounds. This will help us to blend them into words. Please keep a look out for our new sounds and tricky words of the week, in your reading diaries:

New sounds:        x          y          z

Tricky words of the week:        she     me   

Week commencing 17.01.22

We have now started learning our phase 3 sounds! This will help us to be able to read even more words. How exciting! Please keep a look out for our new sounds and tricky words of the week, in your reading diaries:

New sounds:        j          v          w

Tricky words of the week:        he     be   
 

We have now learnt all of our phase 2 (orange) sounds! Yay!

Over the next 3 weeks, we will be revisiting all of these sounds again to make sure that we can recognise and read them confidently. We will be focussing on spotting them in words and will be practising reading short sentences and writing words. 

Can you read these words below? Use your robot arms to robot talk the sounds and blend them into a word.

pull
hop
grass

Can you put sound buttons on these words? 

Have a go at reading all of the sounds on our sound mat below:

 

 

Phonics Sounds of the Week
 

(Week commencing 22.11.21)

Our sounds this week are:       ll       ss
You can find these in our reading diaries. Please keep practising these, along with previous sounds and bear words. 

(Week commencing 15.11.21)

Our sounds this week are: f       ff        l
We are learning another digraph! (ff) Remember, a digraph is 2 letters that make 1 sound.
You can find these in our reading diaries. Please can we keep practising to read and write these, along with last week's sounds and our bear words. 

Miss Deighton has added some pictures below. Can you find which picture starts with 'f' and 'l' and  ends with 'ff'?

                   

(Week commencing 08.11.21)

Our sounds this week are: r       h       b
You can find these in our reading diaries. Please can we keep practising to read and write these, along with last week's sounds and our bear words. 

Miss Deighton has added some pictures below. Can you find which picture starts with 'r', 'h' and 'b'

                   


(Week commencing 01.11.21)

Our sounds this week are: ck       e        u
We are learning our first digraph! (ck) Remember, a digraph is 2 letters that make 1 sound.
You can find these in our reading diaries. Please can we keep practising to read and write these, along with last week's sounds and our bear words. 

Miss Deighton has added some pictures below. Can you find which picture starts with 'e' and 'u' and  ends with 'ck'?

            

(Week commencing 11.10.21)

Our sounds this week are:   o          c          k
You can find these in our reading diaries. Please can we keep practising to read and write these, along with last week's sounds and our bear words.

Miss Deighton has added some pictures below. Can you find which picture starts with 'o', 'c', and 'k'?

          


(Week commencing 04.10.21)

Our sounds this week are: m          d          g
You can find these in our reading diaries. Please can we keep practising to read and write these, along with last week's sounds and our bear words.

Miss Deighton has added some pictures below. Can you find which picture starts with 'm', 'd', and 'g'?

          


(Week commencing 27.09.21)

Our sounds this week are:  p           i           n
You can find these in our reading diaries. Please can we keep practising to read and write these, along with last week's sounds. We are getting really good at remembering new sounds!

Miss Deighton has added some pictures below. Can you find which picture starts with 'p', 'i', and 'n'?

                              

(Week commencing 20.09.21)

From Wednesday, we will begin our phonics lessons - how exciting! 

We will learn the first three sounds:       s             a            t 

At home, it would be wonderful if we could try and spot things beginning with these sounds. Miss Deighton has added some pictures below. Can you find which picture starts with 's', 'a', and 't'?

Phonics sound mat

Below is an example of the phonics sound mats we use at school to help with our writing. It shows the order we learn the sounds.