Sound of the Week: Short /o/, and The Three Sounds of ED

WHAT IS THE /w/, /o/ RULE YOU MAY ASK?

When you hear an /o/ after a /w/ the /o/ sound is written with an A, like in waddle. We waddled in our duck feet. 

We wrote words with a /w/ sound then an /o/ sound after it like; waddle, was, what, wasp and want to name a few.

Speaking of which, waddled also has our focus chunky monkey work ending. 

                                    

TIME TRAVELLER ED

ED is a time traveler. He takes verbs into the past!

-ing is happening now and -ed happened in the past

The 3 Sounds of ED

We have clever tricks to work out if he says 'id', 't' or 'd'.

Genesis 1:31

Here's a little something to help us learn our memory verse this week. It is the perfect last word on an awesome term of marveling God's creation.

Pet Day!

We 

💗 

our 

pets!

Open and Closed Syllables

Policeman E

Protector ck ...Caylee (c) and Ella (k) work together to protect the vowel from the creature! The vowel says its short sound. We call it, it's weak sound.

Policeman E (Sian) jumps over Protector ck and says the vowel, "Oi you! Say your full name." The vowel (Isabella-Hope says its letter name. "A"

 Because the vowel says it's strong sound, it doesn't need protecting now, so Protector ck isn't needed anymore. The /k/ sound is just written with a K. C walks away.

Now the word is bake and Policeman E is super silent! 

It's fun to play with sounds!

                                           Making our own Policeman E's

Policeman E at work while we read our big book, 'The King's Cake'

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e_e

i_e

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May Calendar Challenge

Congratulations entrants! 
Our May calendar animal was in fact a plains zebra. They live in East and Southern Africa.











Below are Johan and Sian's entries. They were away on show day.

We had a special guest attend our Calendar Challenge show today, Sarah from D3. She was (and still is) a pro at Calendar Challenges. We loved her creativity and the experience that she brought to our show. She is so clever to have figured out how to make her entry a puppet show!

 

 Inside the box... Sarah's secrets revealed!