Today, we received a letter from the Forest Fairies asking for help. Some of the characters from our phonics stories were playing hide and seek with the Forest Fairies in the woodland but they wouldn’t come out from their hiding places. The only way that they would come out is if the fairies were able to read what each of them had received for Christmas. Unfortunately, the fairies are not as good at reading as us so we had to help them. Using a map with coloured dots to show us where the characters were hiding, we had to be detectives and follow the map to find each of them. We worked with our partners to use our phonic knowledge to read each of the words containing the oa digraph or igh trigraph. Finally, we linked each character to their present on our activity clipboard so that we could tell the fairies the answers they needed.

Great team work and some excellent discussions about how we needed to orientate our maps.