Sound Waves

Welcome to SOUND WAVES 

The Sound Waves approach uses a sound-to-letter strategy, which acknowledges that sounds can be represented in more than one way. The Sound Waves approach focuses first on the basic units of sound in our language – phonemes. It then explores the letters that represent these sounds and how they can be put together to form the words in our language. 

In Year 3 we understand what a phoneme and grapheme is. 

Phoneme: A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

Grapheme: A grapheme is the letter or letter combination used to represent a phoneme in written form. 

_______________________________________________________________

Challenge:

This week I have created a QUIZLET for you. 

Click on the link and see if you can guess the d dd words. 

Record them in the comments below. Can you think of any others?

QUIZLET d dd

Children's Blog:

Blue:

We have been doing sound waves in class. We have looked at different sounds like /b/ /a/ /k/ /e/ /d// Sound waves is about sounding out the letter in words. We segment our words to find out the sounds. There is a cool activity online we can use to check our segmenting. 

Green:

Sounds waves is helping us with our spelling and the different sounds. Each time we learn a new sound we say a new chant. This week we were looking at the sound /d/ and our chant was ducks dive down d d d.  

Orange:

Sound waves sometimes can be hard but also fun! We enjoy it because it makes spelling cool and we learn different sounds to help us spell tricky words. It is getting easier each week. 

Purple:

For sound waves we each have our own activity book and it teaches us all about the different sounds. In sound waves we do spelling activities and we do some challenges at the end. Sound waves held us to learn the different sounds in words and helps us spell a word we are unsure of. 

Red:

At school we are doing sound waves. We complete the first page of our activity book with Miss Veling then we take in home to complete the second page for homework. It helps us with our sounds, spelling and how to pronounce words. Every week we go through all of the sounds we will be learning with an echo song. It is like learning our ABC but it is ALL of the sounds. We love finding out what our new chant will be for the week as well. DUCK DIVE DOWN  d dd.