D-d-d-d-DINOSAURS!

What an exciting afternoon we had today, working with the letter Dd and it was great to have Kage and Katelyn here working with us.

We read Ruth Paul's great STOMP book and used this to try and create colourful dinosaurs.

We had a peek at some 'real' dinosaurs using a virtual reality I-Dinosaur book from Hawera library. We managed to capture this guy and photograph him sitting on a friendly arm!

After that we made our dinosaurs and went outside for our own STOMP adventure. We stomped, jumped, roared, and crawled around having great fun!

Haxe a look at our work from today.........

T-t-t-trains!

Our letter this week is t. We had a really busy time trying to make train tracks, a train and a tender  on our capital T. 

We have already come across t in our phonics so we know that we can call it Ticking Tess!

Ten is a good number to focus on because it starts with t-t-t.

It was lovely to have Jack, Anya, Katelyn and Cooper joining in with us today!

Ii........ I is for insect!

What a fabulous 4Stars we had on Thursday!

Our visitors were Ruby, Kage, Jack and Anya and together we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar- a very popular choice!

We found out that caterpillars are insects because they have 6 legs

We made paper loop caterpillars....have a look!

Ll....Ladybugs! Our first Four Stars for 2015

Look at the fabulous ladybugs we made at FourStars today!

Our first letter was of course 'l', so we enjoyed reading  The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle and made our fabulous "Twirling Lady bugs".

We were joined by Anya, Ruby, Eli and Kage who worked really hard and were great visitors to Room 6!

H h Hats, hats, hats!

 We had a busy Four Stars day on Thursday! Our focus letter for the week is h so after watching Hats for Sale, we made fantastic hats.

You can help your child to remember the sound made by 'h' in many ways. Using the alphabet chart regularly and focusing on our weekly letter is a good start.... Also by highlighting the sound as you say words that have an h at the start... And just by saturating them with h words through the week! Have a look at our heavenly hats.......

D-D-D-Dinosaur!!!

Today we made DINOSAURS because our focus letter is Dd.

As well as rhe initial consonant, some of us will be finding out about d at the end of words, and dr as a blend next week.

At home you could practise the sound that d makes as it can be tricky....and practise writing 'd's as they can commonly be confused with b! (Remember "b has a belly, d doesn't!)

Here are some of our DINOSAURS.....

A is for ...... Alligator!

Today at 4 Stars we learnt about the letter a.

A is a vowel and it has two main sounds- 'a' like apple and 'a' like ape.

New students are focusing on the short a and older students are thinking about both the sounds that 'a' makes. This will help them when reading or writing trickier words!

Have a look at our hungry alligators that love eating 'a' or words that have a in them!