Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
5/11/20 - Swallows Class Blog
Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 10:16pm
Hello SUPER Swallows!
Welcome back to our weekly blog. I hope you all had a restful half term full of fun and precious family time together. It has been wonderful to have you back in school this week, I am sure you have all grown! Thank you for coming back to school so sensibly, I can tell you are all ready for another half term of super learning.
This week we have enjoyed decorating wooden crosses in prearation for Remembrance Day next week. In writing, Swallows loved describing Tabitha Lumpet and compared her to the very naughty ‘Horrid Henry’. Swallows even got to watch a short clip of the cartoon during their writing lesson! We then wrote some brilliant letters to Grandma using the conjunction ‘because’ to help us to exaplain how the characters might be feelings in the story. In Maths, we used our knowledge of place value to add and subtract two digit numbers. I wonder if your Swallow could use column addition to show you how to solve a tricky problem using just a pencil and piece of paper?
63 + 5= ____ 54 + 20= _____ 42 + 14=___
Swallows enjoyed working in their new Read Write Inc groups this week and are excited to show you their brand new books.
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Blue Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
Pink Group |
Grey Group |
Orange Group |
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Text: The jar of oil
New sounds: ea- cup of tea oi – spoil the boy a-e – make a cake i-e – nice smile |
Text: Grow your own radishes New sounds: ea- cup of tea oi – spoil the boy a-e – make a cake i-e – nice smile
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Text: On the bus
New sounds: ay – may I play ee – what can you see? Igh- fly high Ow – blow the snow |
Text: In the night
New sounds: ay – may I play ee – what can you see? Igh- fly high Ow – blow the snow |
Text: Wailing Winny's Car Boot Sale
New learning: The /or/ sound spelt a before l and ll
Can you read the words below?
small also almost always talk walk chalk stalk |
Text: A bad fright
New sounds: ea- cup of tea oi – spoil the boy a-e – make a cake i-e – nice smile
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Next week your child will be coming home with a Read Write Inc bookmark that corresponds with their current RWI group. Please continue to speed read and write these words to help with fluency. In addition to this, 5 common exception words will be sent home in diaries to learn each week. Please use the 'Look-Cover-Write-Check' whiteboard provided to learn these spellings at home. Each child will be given their own spelling board and pen, these can be kept at home. The children will complete a spelling quiz in school each Friday. Children will then tick and dot against their spelling list to let you know which words they need to continue to learn.
Next Week
We will continue to focus our writing on the fantastic story ‘Troll Swap’ next week. We will write a diary entry as Tabitha, write letters from Mum and Dad asking Tabitha to come home and describe our own new Character. In Maths we will continue to use written methods to solve addition and subtraction problems to 100. We will then move on to adding three 1 digit numbers, three 2 digit numbes and we will solve addition and subtraction word problems.
Home Reading
Thank you to everyone who has been reading at home this week. Swallows were thrilled to notice that we had more children than ever completing their three read challenge last week. Keep it up! We have had lots of diaries signed and consequently the children have been given raffle tickets for our special reading raffle. Will we beat our record once again next week?
Reminder
Parents Evening phone calls will take place next Tuesday 10th November for Swallows class. If you haven’t already, please log on to School Spider to book your appointment time. If you have any problems doing this, please contact the school office who will assist you.
Finally, incase you missed it last week, here is a link to our very own YouTube video showcasing our talented Swallows playing the ukulele. We hope you enjoy listening to us play.
I look forward to speaking to you all next Tuesday during our Parents Evening telephone calls.
Have a wonderful weekend J
Miss Gillam
