Many thanks to everyone for taking the time to come along to the parent evening meetings this week – we hope you found your appointment helpful and enjoyed hearing a little more about what your child gets up to during the school day.

This week, we learnt two new digraphs: ur and ow.  Here are the actions and the mouth shapes for these new sounds.

Please note, we did not use the jolly phonics action (see action for ‘er’) as we decided to think about ‘ur’ as the second sound in ‘f-ur’, so our action is to pretend to stroke a cat or dog.

For ‘ow’, we used the Jolly Phonics action (for ‘ou’):

The ‘ow’ digraph also featured in our spotlight story this week: “Oww!’ tells the tale of Piggy Piglet and his farm animal friends who try to help him with a prickly problem.  When the animals speak, they also use many of the other digraphs we have been learning recently (e.g. m-oo and ee-or).

We used speech bubbles to try writing what the different animals said…can you remember how we wrote what a cat says? Which sounds did we use? How many digraphs did we use?

Weekend Challenge: can you write your own speech bubbles for a dog, a horse, a chick and a goat?  Remember to listen carefully for the sounds and use your digraphs.  Can you come up with some of your own animal noises and put them in speech bubbles?

Our number of the week was…

And our Star of the Week did a fantastic job of filling up his number bag with thirteen cars! He was also a super number detective, finding the number 13 in all sorts of places inside and outside.  Can you remember why he couldn’t find the number 13 on any front doors?

This week, we have been practising all our teen numbers.  We listened to a song about them, used cubes to make different teen numbers and we put them in order from 11-19.

Here’s the song we listened to, if you’d like to hear it again at home:

Weekend Challenge: Can you make your own number line of numbers from 1 to 20? Can you draw some pictures of different teen numbers (e.g. pictures of the cube towers we made)?  Can you work out why teen numbers always start with a 1?  How do you know?

To meet the Early Learning Goal for Number by the end of the year, the children need to have a sound knowledge of numbers to 20 so please practise recognising, ordering and counting them frequently! Thank you!

Our number of the week for the coming week has been chosen as number: