Swallows Blog WB: 18.10.2021

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 9:21pm

 

 

Hello everyone and welcome back to Swallows weekly blog ?

 

Praise Book: Layla           Top Table: Anya

 

I can’t quite believe we are looking ahead to the final week of the half term already. Please remember that school finishes for half term on Thursday 21^st October as Friday 22^nd is an INSET day.

We are looking forward to another week of super learning next week. Please take a look at what we will be learning below.

English

Our English work will continue to focus on the beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ this week. We will write sentences to describe fireworks, write a character description for Plop and enjoy learning and performing Autumn poems.

Maths

Our Maths learning will continue to focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be continuing to add and subtract  10s and 1s and we will be adding a 2 digit number to a 1 digit number. Please continue to support your Swallow at home by adding and subtracting 10s and 1s from different starting points. A 100 square may help your Swallow with this if they are finding it tricky.  

https://mathszone.co.uk/using-applying/puzzles-and-logic-problems/splat-square100-primary-games-3/

 

 

Read Write Inc

 

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 15.10.2021

 

The jar of oil

A second jar of oil

Our invisible planet

 

New sounds:

• ear – hear with your ear
• ure – sure it’s pure
• tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration
• tious – scrumptious delicious

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?  

 

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 15.10.2021

Wailing Winny’s car boot sale

Dad makes a mistake

Amazing caves

New sounds:

• ear – hear with your ear
• ure – sure it’s pure
• tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration
• tious – scrumptious delicious

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week? 

 

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 15.10.21

The gingerbread Man

A hungry Fox

Grab a snack

New sounds:

• tious– scrumptious and delicious
• ck- tick tock
• au- Paul the astronaut
• e-e Go Pete and Steve!
• kn- Knock knock who’s there?

 

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

Reading focus: We have been continuing to look at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our green words by saying in our head; Special friends, Fred talk read the word. How many green words can you speed read now?

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 15.10.21

My sort of horse

Born on a farm

New sounds:

• ire – fire fire!
• ure – sure it’s pure
• tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration!
• tious/cious – Scrumptious delicious

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

Reading focus: Do we understand what we have just read? Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the books to check your understanding.

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 15.10.21

Sanjay stays in bed

My holiday

new sounds

• Ire – fire, fire
• Are – care and share
• ure- sure it's pure

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on punctuation and exploring how an exclamation mark in a sentence changes the way we say the word and encourages our use of expression in our reading.

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 15.10.21

The web

Leggy

Practise our sounds of the week:

• ar – start the car
• or – shut the door
• air – That's not fair
• ir– whirl and twirl

 

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

Reading focus: Keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red! How many red words can you read in 30 seconds? Please use the red words written in the front of ‘The Web’ to play this game. You may end up reading the same word several times ?.

 

 

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. Please remember to record any reading in your blue reading diary.

 

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. ?

Roll and Spell
1	Write the word with your other hand
2	Write the word as fast as you can
3	Write the word with your eyes closed
4	Write the word in a fancy way
5	Write the word in capital letters and stick your tongue out
6	Write the word using tiny letters

 

father  find  floor  gold grass

Our next quiz will be on Thursday 21st October. 

Maths

We look forward to sending home your first times table challenge next week. Please continue to focus on learning how to count in multiples of 2, 3, 5 and 10 this week. Can you complete a one minute challenge for each multiple? Eg. How any multiples of 2 can you write in 1 minute? Repeat with the 3s, 5s and 10s.

0  2  4    6   8  10  12  14  16  18  20  22  24

 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Miss Gillam