Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
10.12.20 Swallows Class Blog
Date: 10th Dec 2020 @ 10:34pm
Hello Swallows!
I hope you are all keeping well and are looking forward to the Christmas break! I can’t believe we are looking ahead to the last week of term already. Time flies when you are having fun!
What a fun, festive week we have had! The children have worked exceptionally hard to put on a Christmas production for you with their Starling and Owl friends over the past few weeks. We hope you enjoy our very special performance and that it helps spread some Christmas cheer! We certainly enjoyed having the opportunity to watch both the KS1 & 2 performances in school as a little preview this week.
Read Write Inc
Swallows loved having the opportunity to showcase their Fred Talking skills in our Phonics ‘show me what you know’ this week. Miss Gillam is so proud of the super progress all of our Swallows are making with their reading. Next week, we will be looking at groupings for the new year. These new groupings will be shared after the Christmas break.
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Pink & Orange |
Blue & Yellow |
Grey |
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New Text: Up in the air (Non-fiction focus week) |
New Text: How to make a peach treat (Non-fiction focus week) |
New Text: The ice and snow book (Non-fiction focus week) |
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New Sounds: tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration cious/tious – scrumptious delicious ure – sure it’s pure |
New Sounds: Longer word (chunking) focus week Ph – take a photo Wh – whisk whisk Ck- tick tock clock |
New Sounds: Longer word (chunking) focus week Ph – take a photo Wh – whisk whisk Ck- tick tock clock |
As we look ahead to the final week of the half term, we have lots of fun and festive activities planned to keep us busy. Over the week, all of the children will have the opportunity to watch a virtual Christmas Panto, complete some Christmas maths challenges and get creative with some lovely Christmas crafts. We will have our school Christmas Dinner on Wednesday 16th December and each class will also have a Christmas party on Friday 18th December. We can’t wait!
We are looking forward to starting a brand new unit of work based on the wonderful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ in our Writing lessons next week. We will consider what we already know and what we want to find out about owls. We will make links to the familiar story ‘Owl Babies’ and write a description of an owl. Swallows will be introduced to commas and will be encouraged to use them to separate adjectives.
E.g. Plop has a wide, gentle and friendly face. His eyes are sparkly, shining and bright. His curved, yellow beak shines as bright as the sun. He has fluffy, soft brown feathers all over his body. He sits on the branches of a tree with his sharp and deadly claws.
We will solve addition and subtraction problems involving money in our Maths lessons next week. Will Swallows solve our problem before Miss Gillam has a Christmas shopping disaster?
Homework
Maths
Can you solve the problem below? Please record on the slip inside your reading diary.
How many number facts can you think of? Remember to use the example at the top of the slip to help you.
Spellings
Please remember to practise spellings this week again, ready for our final quiz on THURSDAY this week. Thank you for the continued efforts with learning these. It is clear to see how hard the children have been working at home and it has such an impact in class.
New spellings: fast father find
Thank you for your continued support with home reading, spelling and maths challenges at home. These three areas continue to be the homework for Swallows class until after the Christmas break.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone J. Please don't hesitate to ring me at school or send me an email via admin@lostockgralam.cheshire.sch.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Miss Gillam