Swallows Blog - WB 27.09.2021

Date: 23rd Sep 2021 @ 9:53pm

Hello Swallows families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Swallows Class ?

Mrs Elson and I continue to be proud of all our Swallows learners as they continue to try their best and work hard in their lessons. We have been super scientists, musicians, writers, mathematicians, problem solvers and much more this week.

Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Swallow at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime storybooks are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

English

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our class text ‘Troll Swap’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. We will continue to explore character and write a diary in the role of Tabitha. We will focus on expanding our vocabulary, seeing if we can use exciting adjectives to add detail to our sentences.

Maths

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

Read Write Inc

Please see below for details of our new sounds and the texts we have been reading in our Read Write Inc groups this week. To support your child’s progress, it would help if they read and spelt words containing each sound at home.

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 24.9.2021

Hairy Fairy

A job for Hairy Fairy

It’s so hairy

New sounds:

o-e Phone home
u-e Huge brute
aw Yawn at dawn
are care and share

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?

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.

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 24.9.2021

I dare you

Men on the moon

Nancy Roman’s space telescope

New sounds:

o-e Phone home
u-e Huge brute
aw Yawn at dawn
are care and share

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.

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 24.09.21

Tom Thumb

Stuck in fog

Bugs

New sounds:

I-e nice smile

o-e- phone home
aw– yawn at dawn
are-care and share

ur – nurse with a purse

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

Reading focus: Using our knowledge of red words to become super speedy readers. Remember, you don’t Fred a red! We also focused on reading punctuation to help with our story telling voice.

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 24.09.21

Follow me

Can you see me?

New sounds:

o-e phone home
u-e huge brute
aw yawn at dawn
are care and share

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

Reading focus: Attempting to ‘Fred in our head’ more when reading a story.

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 24.09.2021

In the sun

Rags

New sounds:

o-e Phone home
u-eHuge brute
aw Yawn at dawn
are care and share

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 24.09.21

The Spell

A Witch’s Lunch

New sounds:

oo– poo at the zoo
oo– look at a book
ar– start the car
or – shut the door

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

Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader. To read and notice punctuation to help with our story telling voice.

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.

busy child children Christmas class

Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Here is a link to the ‘Super Mover’ times table videos that Swallows loved watching in school this week. Please use these videos to learn your tables this week.

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

Miss Gillam

Swallows Blog - WB 27.09.2021

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