Blogging event on the 29th Feb

I found this article on TES and found it very interesting. A blog will be opened on 29th Feb and people from all over the world will be able to write on it, including children. This will give a real sense of purpose for writing.

Read the article

This is the blog's link

Jelly Bean maths

Of course you could use real Jelly Beans but if you just want an activity which is better for teeth the use these cards and questions.

Phoneme frames with sound reminders

Print, laminate and use dry wipe pens for children to practise writing words. Use the one with lines for children to write a sentence.

100 square game

Learning objective is 1 more or 1 less
Children to play in pairs. Each throw a die in turn and move that number of squares. If they land on the red square they must move one forward. If they land on a blue square then they must move one backwards. If they land on a yellow then they win.

100 square game

Learning objective is adding and taking away 10
Children to play in pairs. Each throw a die in turn and move that number of squares. If they land on the red square they must move 10 forward (down 1). If they land on a blue square then they must move 10 backwards (up 1). If they land on a yellow then they win.

Here is the pdf version

Letters and Sounds Apply

I thought I would write about this part of a Letters and Sounds lesson as I have recently made a bit of a breakthrough with my SEN children. They all struggle to read, retain then write a caption or sentence. One of the things I think is very useful for young children is for them to spot their own mistakes and then correct them. With this in mind I split my children into pairs. I gave them a book each for writing in and a pencil between 2 of them. I then wrote lots of sentences using the targetted sound for the lesson on some bright card. I gave one child in the pair a sentence which they had to read to the other child. No peeping allowed. The child had to read and read until they were perfect. So after the first attempt where they were sounding out every word they became fluent. This fluency was needed so the other child knew what to write. When the child had eventually written the sentence I got them as a pair to look at my sentence and decided between them what was wrong. They then corrected. They then swapped and the other child read whilst their partner wrote. I have found this very effective. Within a week of doing this their fluency has improved and their ability to retain a sentence then write has improved. I have written some simple sentences for you to try this. Please let me know if it works with your children. My focus was on ch/sh/ng

Letters and Sounds phase 6 resources

Someone has asked if I have any resources for phase 6. I did a search and there is quite a lot out there but you need to look under 'support for spelling' . I have put a few things here and if anyone can help and provide any resources they have made I will be happy to put them up for others to share.

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Support for spelling

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