Here is the author of our story this week - Errol's garden. She recorded herself during lockdown and shared the story she had written with everyone.

Our set 1 phonics sounds this week are to be to introduce or reinforce the letters 'e' 'g' and 'm' as we will be seeing these a lot in our story and nursery rhyme. We often use Evie and Dodge to introduce and reinforce the set 1 sounds as it helps the children to learn how to do "my turn, your turn' as they do it with dodge. We follow it up with an alphabet song from cbeebies too.

Our set 2 sounds this week will be looking closely at the two different ways the double oo sounds.                      eg look at Errol's roof garden! a short 'oo' and a long 'oo'.

Other useful links for songs and videos about each digraph - short oo song, short oo phonics lesson, long oo song, long oo phonics lesson

What will we be doing on our first week back?

Our new topic for most of the Summer term is "Sunshine and Sunflowers" - lets hope for lots of both!