Swallows Blog WB 04.10.2021

Date: 30th Sep 2021 @ 5:14pm

Hello Swallows families and welcome back to our weekly blog! We have had another wonderful week of super learning in Swallows Class and Miss Gillam and Mrs Elson have been so proud of us all.

Our fantastic attitudes towards our learning helped us to fill our recognition board once again this week, earning us a special class treat. Well done, Swallows!

We are looking forward to another week of being busy little bee’s next week. Please take a look at what we will be learning below.

English

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our class text ‘Troll Swap’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. We will be sequencing ideas to create our own adventure stories. We will orally re-tell the story, create a story map and finally write a new and exciting story using our newly created characters. We will then focus on the skill of editing and improving our own work.  

Maths

Our Maths learning will continue to focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be exploring number facts and fact families, comparing numbers, finding related facts and making number bonds to 100.

Read Write Inc

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 1.10.2021

King of the birds

The thirsty cow

Birds!

New sounds:

• ur – nurse with a purse
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain

Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence?

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 1.10.2021

Looking after a hamster

Bert the explorer

A pet or pest?

New sounds:

• ur – nurse with a purse
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain

Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence?

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 1.10.21

Robin Hood

A big bag of cash

Bushcraft

New sounds:

er- better letter

ow – brown cow

ai- snail in the rain

oa - goat in a boat

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. Can you find the special friends really quickly and then use Fred in your head to read the word. This really helps us read trickier words speedily.

Reading focus: We have been looking at our punctuation this week. Can you find any question marks and exclamation marks? The punctuation helps us with our reading and our understanding of the story.

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 01.10.21

Too much!

A bad mood

New sounds:

• ur - nurse with a purse
• er - a better letter
• ow - brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

Reading focus: Watching out for exclamation marks so that we can really emphasise the word or phrase.

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 01.10.2020

The dressing up box

Sam’s Bag

• New sounds
• ur – nurse with a purse
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow

Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy!

Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card.

Green Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 01.10.21

Black Hat Bob

Red Hat Rob

New sounds:

• ir – whirl and twirl
• ou – shout it out
• oy – toy to enjoy

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy!

Homework

Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too.

Spellings – During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary next each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page. 

To make learning our spellings more fun, we created a special roll and spell game in school this week. Please use this game to learn your spellings at home this week. If you haven’t got a dice, please write the numbers 1-6 on pieces of paper and select a number as a lucky dip. You can then still enjoy the game. ?

climb  clothes  could  cold  door

Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3.

• Can you count in 5s four times?
• Can you count in 10s eight times?
• Can you count in 3s five times?
• Can you count in 2s eleven times?

Thank you for continuing to fill my day with smiles and laughter. I am so proud of the amazing attitudes you have all shown towards your learning once again this week.  See you on Monday for another week of SUPER learning.

Miss Gillam