Swallows Class Blog - 24.9.2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 5:26pm

Hello everyone,

It was so lovely to speak to so many parents this week during our phone calls. I'm sorry if I missed you! I will be continuing to telephone parents tomorrow but if you do wish to discuss anything urgently, please do not hesitate to email or phone the school office to arrange this. 

We have had another fantastic week in Swallows Class.

The children have been working extremely hard and I am very proud of their positive attitudes and work ethic.

 

In our English lessons we have been writing our own space poems, recounts and sentences to describe the night sky. Next week we will be using quotes to help us to understand Mae Jemison’s thoughts and feelings. We will consider how her achievements make us feel and create a feelings grid to help us to write sentences. We will then write a diary describing Mae’s space flight.

 

In Maths we have been representing 2 digit numbers using tens and ones. We also represented numbers on a place value grid. Next week we will be comparing and ordering numbers to 100 using our knowledge of place value to help us. To help your Swallow with their mental maths learning next week, it would help if you could practice counting in 2s, 5s and 10s at home.

                                                 

Swallows have enjoyed our first science lesson focusing on materials this week. They have been sorting objects in different ways and using scientific vocabulary to spot the ‘odd one out’. Next week we will identify which materials are appropriate for certain objects and which are not base on their properties.

 

In our Religion work, we have been reading the story of the Good Samaritan this week. Next week we will be using role play to act out the story and we will be considering how Christian’s care for one another.

 

Read Write Inc

Pink Group – Miss Gillam

This week we have been reading the wonderful story ‘Tab the cat’. We focused on using ‘Fred in our head’ to help us to become more fluent, accurate readers.

Our new sounds the week were –ow (blow the snow), oo (poo at the zoo) and oo. (look at a book).

Next week we will be completing our first spelling quiz. Please learn the spellings below at home.

• All
• My
• The
• Like
• To
• He
• She

 

Grey Group – Miss Gillam

This week we have been reading the wonderful story ‘The lion’s paw’. We focused on reading with speed. Please remind your Swallow to take note of the punctuation in the text. This tells them when to pause and take a breath.

Our new sounds the week were -i-e (nice smile), o-e (phone home) and u-e (huge brute). We continued to focus on spelling each sound.

Next week we will be completing our first spelling quiz. Please learn the spellings below at home.

• Should
• Were
• Call
• There
• Want
• Come

Yellow  Group – Mrs Elson

This week we have been reading the brilliant story ‘Off Sick’. We focused on applying our knowledge of ‘Special friends’ when reading books. We played ‘jump in’ to develop pace and fluency when reading.

Our new sounds the week were –oy (toy to enjoy), -ir (whirl and twirl) and -ou (shout it out).

Next week we will be completing our first spelling quiz. Please learn the spellings below at home.

• Me
• Was
• To
• You
• All
• Said
• want

 

Blue Group – Mrs Elson

This week we have been reading the brilliant story ‘The poor goose’. We focused on We focused on applying our knowledge of ‘Special friends’ when reading books. We played ‘jump in’ to develop pace and fluency when reading.

Our new sounds this week were – are (care and share), ur (nurse with a purse) and -oa (goat in a boat).

Next week we will be completing our first spelling quiz. Please learn the spellings below at home.

• Any
• Other
• Two
• All
• There
• Said

 

As we will be changing reading books tomorrow, please ensure that your child has all of their books in school. If you do find any old Read Write Inc books at home, please return ASAP. 

 

I have also attached the ‘Year Two Common Exception Word’ list so that you can see which spellings the children need to learn by the end of this year.

 

We look forward to another lovely week together and will be back in touch in next week’s blog.

Miss Gillam & Mrs Elson  :) 

 

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