Last week, class 10 were looking at instruction text abs they had to make their own slime with very specific instructions! Even though we had a very sticky classroom for the rest of the week; it was worth it as I am so impressed with their final touch downs! You are all super stars class 10!

Class 10 are so proud of Charley for winning lots of medals this weekend at dancing! Keep it up Charley!

Class 5 have made Hester hats today in our literacy labs. They had to think of different ways to cheer up the little princess in our story.

Well done class 5!

Miss Hilton and Mrs Roe

During phase 2 phonics children have been introduced to ‘tricky words’. Tricky words are words that cannot be sounded out. We look at these words and identify the tricky parts. We practise recognising these words by sight. When reading at home, can your child spot these words in their reading books?

Class 3 and 4 have finished learning the phase 2 phonics sounds. The sounds the children have learned are:

s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f  ff  l  ll  ss

You may find your child is more confident with recognising and writing the earlier sounds, this is normal at this stage and children will become more confident with the sounds as we move through Phase 3.

Children have been introduced to simple digaraphs. A digraph is 2 letters that make only one sound for example the ff in the word ‘huff’ and the ss in the word ‘hiss’. Children have learned the digaraphs ff,  ll, ss and zz. Phase 3 will introduce children to lots more digraph sounds.

Children should now be increasingly confident in reading words with 2 and 3 sounds such as the words is, on, cat, mum. Children should now be identifying sounds in the words they want to write and recalling how to write some of these letters. This is something we will continue to practise.

If you are worried about your child’s progress in phonics or would like more information on how phonics is taught please make an appointment to speak to your childs class teacher.

This week in nursery the children explored Instrumental sounds .They worked well to verbalise and describe the sounds they could hear instruments making. They were fascinated with how some instruments made more than one sound!

I wonder if this week you can create at home an instrument that makes a banging or a shaking sound?

Don’t forget to show your work to an adult so that you can collect your class reward!

The nursery children created bird feeders for the nursery garden today. What a great fine motor activity! The children were so engaged and it helped us to think about theme learning even more.

We are writing instructions for our literacy cycle. The children have loved learning how to make a non-sticky slime so they can write up some perfect instructions.  Eden Camp will love learning how to change their own slime recipe now!

Well done can’t wait to read your final products.