Monday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 9:28am
Good Morning! I hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend, celebrating VE day and enjoying the sunshine!
Sentence of the day
Here are the answers from Thursdays sentence of the day.
A sunflower needs water and sunlight to grow. It needs to be the right temperature, if it is too cold or too hot the sunflower could die.
Well done to the children who managed to find the mistakes. Look how neat and beautiful their learning is, well done!
For today’s sentence I want you to read the instructions and put them into the correct order. Remember to use the time connectives to help you.
Next drop a sunflower seed into the hole.
First put some damp soil in a plastic cup so it comes up almost to the top.
Then put the cup on a sunny windowsill.
Finally your plant should pop up through the soil after about 1 or 2 weeks.
Phonics
Let’s start todays phonics by reviewing our tricky words. Find your tricky word mat and play a game of fastest finger with your grown up. Ask them to say a word and point to as quick as you can with your fast fingers.
Today’s phonics focus is going to be a recap of blends which come at the start of words. Watch this video to remind yourselves of these blends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8bvbyWFZ4
Today you are going to have three challenges again.
Challenge 1: Make yourself a roll and read mat using the words on the youtube video. Here is an example of what it should look like. My roll and read mat has all of the same blend but you can make yours harder by including all of the words on the video
Challenge 2: Play a game of 4 in a row with your roll and read mat. Take turns with someone you live with to roll the dice and read a word. The first person to read 4 in a row will be the winner.
Challenge 3: Make signs with the initial blends that you saw in the video – dr, gr, tr, br, cr. Then cut up your roll and read mat so that you have lots of little words. Read the word and match them to their initial blend. For example the word brush will go with the sign br.
Hope you have a lovely day! If you have any questions then please email us and we’ll be happy to help you! Don’t forget that you can carry on practicing your reading skills on lexia!