Spelling

The children have commenced sound investigations.
They are enjoying learning that letters have names and only make sounds when they are part of a word. We have looked at words and have studied the sound 'e' eg 'ee' as in bee, 'ey' as in key, 'ea' as in each.
The children's names were used as a starting point for these investigations.
This week we are investigating the sound 'a' in words and will collect words that show graphs, digraphs, trigraphs representing the 'a' sound eg 'ay' as in day, 'ai' as in snail, 'a-e' as in came.
Each child has a spelling book to record their discoveries.
We encourage you to discuss these sounds and how they are represented in words. The children could collect different examples of words with the 'a' sound and bring them to school.
The children also choose two or three words to study through spelling activities every week.