Language

 

 

This week the By Heart Words will be:  up and come. Every day we practise printing the words on white boards and we orally spell the words. Orally spelling the word assists the JK children to identify the letters of the alphabet and assists the SK's to memorize the spelling of these important words. I also attempt to use the words in the morning/afternoon message and have one child take the word from the "By Heart Wall" and print the word into the message.

 

The Jolly Phonic sound for this week is  the "j" sound. This is a difficult sound for the children because at this young age they often confuse the "g" and the "j" letter and sound. Some of the simple words we will be working on are the following: jam, jaw, jet, job, jazz, jelly, jello, jot, jog, jump, junk, jug, just.

 

 

The word family for this week is the "ap" family. Some of the words are the following: cap, clap, gap, lap, map, nap, tap, sap, tap, trap, flap. If the children can say the "ap" sound this assists them to chunk these two sounds together and then they just have to place the first sound in front of the chunk. For example if the word is cap- c-ap, rather than stating all three sounds.