The phonic sounds we are going to practice in the next few week are spelled in many different ways in English. For example, the ‘ai’ sound is spelled differently in these words; train, play, make, weight and apron. 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 you have had a lovely weekend.
Today, we are going to practice the digraph ‘ai’. A diagraph means two letters together which make one sound.
Practice saying the sound ‘ai’ and making the ‘ai’ 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 ‘ai’ sound and write them by yourself?
I know that Geraldine the Giraffe is very popular so here she is learning the ‘ai’ sound too! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LnXaN-CvR9s
I am looking forward to hearing all about your phonics today.
Love from Miss Siswick
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Good morning Miss,
Sophia was confident with the word given.She loves Geraldine the giraffe.
We will upload her work to the school website.
James did very well once he started to concentrate. Monday morning blues?
He made up and wrote three sentences:
1. There is a lot of rain.
2. The train stopped at Marylebone station.
3. The nail is very sharp.
He also found lots of words with the “ai” sound:
grain, grey, rain, paint, Plane, plate, May, placemat, gale.
Good morning Miss Siswick,
What a are a breezy day today !
I am able to sound and read the words
I can sound out and write the words
I have found baick (bake), make, pai (pay)
Good morning Reception. I hope you have had a restful weekend. I hope it doesn’t rain today. Enjoy phonics!
Hello Miss Siswick,
Happy monday!
We read all the words on our own, we came up with the sentence: the nails are in the wall. We also came up with the word brain. We also wrote down snail, we got it from the jolly phonics app!
As always we loved Geraldine! She is funny!
Will send you a picture with our writing.
Amber read all the words. She wrote Train, rain and nails.
The chain, maid (wrote maib) and a sentence. The hen laid a egg. The hen laid an egg. We have sent her work.
Good morning Miss Siswick
Ryan read the words easily – he wrote the words without assistance. He spelt the words like rain and train correctly and managed to include the ai sound on all other words (jail-jaiyl, nail- naiyl mail-maiyl and faith-faif).
Good session
Good morning Miss,
I read the words and wrote them. I found mail, rail, snail ?, brain ?, paint ?, sailor.
I sent my writing ✍️.
Harlow thought of trail, pail, rail, snail and grains. We sent a picture of her work.
Good morning!
Theo done his homework,and we will send photo soon
Good morning Miss,
Maya did superbly today. She wrote the sentence ‘The train went in the garage’ and came up with the words ‘way’ and ‘day’ with the ‘ai’ spelling. We will send a photo.
She read the book The Toys Party, which she found really funny.
Hi Rocco has completed the phonics for today .
Well done, everyone, for your wonderful phonics this morning. You have all been working very hard practicing reading and writing words with the ‘ai’ 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.
Mikey thought of brain.
Well done, Mikey.
Marcus was happy reading and writing the “ai” words. He thought up some of his own and some others that have “ai” sound but not the “ai” spelling (freight, bear, share).
He was pleased to think up a sentence with 3 “ai” words in it!
We’ve sent a photo…
Well done, Marcus.
Good Afternoon Miss Siswick,
chiara read and write the words.
they thought about Play,snowflake
Well done, Chiara.
Can you try to sound out and write snow flake and play by yourself?
Hello Reception . Hope you had a nice weekend. I am at the hub school this week. Hope you have a good week..and keep up the hard work.
Dear Ms. Siswick,
my words:
mail and jail.
my sentences:
The train is going up the hill.
The rain is falling down.
Well done, Nicolas.