Yester Primary Support for Learning

Welcome Back!

sthomas — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:52:46 +0000

Welcome back to another year at Yester. I am really looking forward to working with you all and I’m sure we will have great fun whilst building up our knowledge and learning skills. Watch this space for updates about what … Continue reading →

Alphabetical order

lcusack — Wed, 30 May 2012 13:45:48 +0000

We had great fun in the P2/3 and P3/4 sounds group today.

We are working on putting words into alphabetical order.

We sang as we sorted our alphabet puzzles into the correct order.

Great teamwork

a,b,c,d,e,f,g.........

Proud of our work

Stressing the unstressed vowels in two syllable words

lcusack — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:13:08 +0000

We have been working on spelling. You must say the vowel sounds very clearly in these words so that you spell them properly. We also made a word wall showing some of the words we have been practising.

I can build words with 2 sounds.

lcusack — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:33:17 +0000

Choosing how to practise our tricky spelling words

lcusack — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:04:40 +0000

This week the P4/5 and P5/6 spelling group chose how they would like to learn their individual list of tricky words.

Next week we will see how well we’ve learned them

Writing in shaving foam

Shaving foam again

Magnetic letters

My finished list

Writing in the sand

The Rockpool Rap Monday 30th April

lcusack — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:19:34 +0000

We went into the nursery today and read them The Rockpool Rap.

The book has lots of rhyming words in it.

Clive and alive, far and rockstar, job and bob, fool and pool.

We enjoyed reading in the nursery and hope they enjoyed it too.

: Reading the Rockpool Rap

Visual closure in handwriting group

lcusack — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:22:12 +0000

Visual closure is the ability to identify an object even though its outline has been fragmented. The parts come together to enable the whole to be seen. This helps children in understanding that each letter, although representative on its own, has meaning when placed together with others to form a word.

The P1/2 and P2/3 Handwriting group had great fun with this activity this week. Yes, it is just like dot-to-dot

We told our talking partners which shape we thought they had done the best job of. We were looking for smooth lines to complete the shape.

I think that's your best one.

That one has nice smooth lines.Well done.

P4/5 and P5/6 finish their work on ‘soft g’

lcusack — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:01:32 +0000

If a g is followed by i e or y it is usually soft.For eg,Egypt gent and ginger.

There are exceptions for eg,girl getting and get.

Marta, Joseph, Lewis, Rachael and Emma

Do you know about soft g?

lcusack — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:58:05 +0000

Our spelling groups have been investigating ‘soft g’. We’ve discovered it’s similar to, but not quite as straightforward as ‘soft c’. We identified gs in a text, then highlighted whether they were soft (sounding like j)or hard (sounding like g). We put our results together on a chart to display in the Support for Learning Base .

Look at what the P7 group have found out.

Building words

lcusack — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:34:28 +0000

William has made fantastic progress in his reading. This week he used letter bricks to check he could also spell the words he has been reading.

Fantastic work. Well done