Language

 

For your convenience I have been able to attach the jolly phonic sheet for the "i" sound. This is the sound we will be working on all week. On the right hand side of the blog you will see a heading Jolly Phonics. If you click on the address under the Jolly Phonics heading, and click on open the "i" sound sheet will open up. You can then print it out if you want. Each week, I will post the new sound for your convenience.

The following are some of the words we will learn to stretch out the sounds for:

ink, sit, pin, dig, big, rip, lip.

 

The letters and sounds are not introduced in alphabetical order. The first six letters (s, a, t, i, p, n) have been chosen because they make more simple three-letter words than any other six letters.

 

Each sound has a picture and an action which help children remember the letter(s) that represent it.

 

The action for the "i" sound is pretend to be a mouse by wiggling fingers at end of nose and squeak i,i,i.

 

From September until December, the focus on vowel sounds will be the short vowel sound for (a, e, i, o, u).

 

The "By Heart Word" for this week will be the word,

"can".   Once we have about 10 By Heart Words I will create a sheet of them for parents to download. The By Heart words must be memorized, because these are the most frequent words the children will need when reading and writing.