FS2 Continuing Student Learning W/C Monday 25th October
Sophie Riley
Welcome To Week 1 of Term 1b
What a brilliant half term we have had in FS2. Whilst learning online would not be our first choice, we are so proud of our wonderful students and the start they have made to this academic year. Check out our learning videos from this week:
FSD
FSE
FSH
FSK
FSP
FSS
This Week's Learning
Communication and Language with Ms Elizabeth
Guidance- English
Over the next two weeks we will be getting excited about International Day at Patana!
We will be learning about our home countries and cultures through play and talk!
If you are not returning to school and would like to see Ms Elizabeth's video of Lesson 2, click on the link below:
Physical Development with Ms Gemma
Please come to our PD sessions in clothes that allow you to move freely. We suggest either wearing your FS2 PE kit, or shorts/trousers and a t shirt. Skirts and dresses, although lovely are not practical for these sessions.
Guidance- English
Guidance- Thai
Resources
If you are not returning to school and would like to see Ms Gemma's video of Lesson 2, click on the link below:
Sensory and Wellbeing with Ms Grace
Guidance- English
We will be sharing the story, 'The Magic Bed' by John Burningham.
I will challenge the children to do some imaginary play:
If you had a magic bed…I wonder where would you go?
Lie on your bed, close your eyes and imagine it is magic.
What would your magic word be I wonder?
Where would you go?
What would you do?
Can you draw a picture of your magic bed or make it from junk modelling?
If you are not returning to school and would like to listen to Ms Grace read the story, click on the link below:
Small Group Learning with your Class Teacher
Guidance- English
Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write. It helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language.
Written language can be compared to a code, so knowing the sounds of individual letters and how those letters sound when they’re combined will help children decode words as they read.
Understanding phonics will also help children know which letters to use when they are writing words.
Phonics involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters.
Teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together helps them decode unfamiliar or unknown words by sounding them out. For example, when a child is taught the sounds for the letters s, a, t and p, they can start to build up the words: “tap”, “taps”, “pat”, “pats” and “sat”.
At Bangkok Patana, we use a synthetic program (Letters and Sounds) with the teaching of phonics in which phonemes (sounds) associated with particular graphemes (letters) are pronounced in isolation and blended together (synthesised). For example, children are taught to take a single-syllable word such as cat apart into its three letters, pronounce a phoneme for each letter in turn c/a/t, and blend the phonemes together to form a word.
After the half-term holiday, we will begin to teach the children Phase 2 of Letters and Sounds. You will find a daily phonics video on the blog for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Please ensure that your child watches the correct video on the correct day as the sequence in which the sounds are taught is important.
In Letters and Sounds Phase 2, letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time. A set of letters is taught in the following sequence:
Set 1: s, a, t, p
Set 2: i, n, m, d
Set 3: g, o, c, k
Set 4: ck, e, u, r
Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
As soon as each set of letters is introduced, children will be encouraged to use their knowledge of the letter sounds to blend and sound out words. For example, they will learn to blend the sounds s-a-t to make the word sat. They will also start learning to segment words. For example, they might be asked to find the letter sounds that make the word tap from a small selection of letters.
Every Thursday or Friday as part of our Small Group Learning (SGL) provision, your child’s class teacher will teach a consolidation session where the children explore the sounds they have learnt that week. For example, at the end of week 1, one of the SGL calls will focus on the sounds s, a, and t in order to build upon the learning from the phonics videos that week.
By the end of Phase 2, children should be able to read some vowel-consonant (VC) and consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, and to spell them out. They also learn some high frequency ‘tricky words’ like ‘the’ and ‘go.’ This phase usually lasts about six weeks.
Why do we teach children the sounds s, a, t, p, i, n, first?
These are very common sounds and when you put them together you can blend and segment them to read and write several simple words – sat– sit – pan – pin – tip – tap, etc. If you just learnt in order of the alphabet you wouldn’t be able to make as many simple words initially.
If you’re teaching your child phonics or helping them with what they’re learning in school, the most important thing to do is ensure that your sounds are pure.
What do I mean?
In order to be able to read and write you must be able to hear the phonemes clearly without any additional sounds being added. Simple right? Not necessarily, and often you can add sounds to phonemes without even realising it. For example, ‘t’ is the pure sound, but often ‘uh’ gets added - ‘tuh’. Or ‘s’ makes the ‘ssss’ sound, but you may hear people say ‘suh’.
Check out the little video below for further clarification. If sounds taught are not the pure sounds, it can get in the way of being able to read and write effectively – sat becomes suhatuh, much harder to recognise the word.
Here’s a list of everyday objects you could use to match up items with the first three phonemes. s, a, t – utilise objects from around your house as much as possible. This will be an excellent way to reinforce our videos on the blog this week. Perhaps you could go on your very own sound hunt around your house and garden!
We really love to see videos and photos of what you have been doing at home. The best way to share this with us is via the Seesaw App. You should have received communication about how to download and login to the app. If you have not received this, please email the ISIT helpdesk- helpdesk@patana.ac.th.