Swallows 25.04.22

Date: 20th Apr 2022 @ 12:23pm

Swallows Class blog

Friday 22nd April 2022

Top Table: Olivia and Anya    Praise: Amelia

Welcome back to the Summer term. We have got a really busy and exciting term ahead of us as we near the end of Year 2. This week we will be welcoming another student teacher into the class, who is in their final placement before qualifying and the children are excited to meet them.

Week beginning 25th April 2022:

We will continue to complete our spelling tests on a Thursday and our times tables test will take place on a Friday.  

Reminders:

Please note that our PE day this week are on Monday. Please come to school in your PE uniform as usual on this day. 

For the Summer term, we will be exploring our new English text 'The Last Wolf' by Mini Grey where we will be developing our letter writing skills. We are going to spend time developing our test techniques in reading by using skimming and scanning the text for retrieval answers. In maths, we are going to be compiling lessons together to ensure that all content is taught. The children will begin the day recapping 4 a day to maintain their level of understanding. 

We are researching and discovering information about endangered and extinct animals and how and why they are in this position. 

Homework

Read Write Inc

You will have noticed this week that your child may have changed RWI groups or come off the scheme to move on to Pathways to Read. If you have any concerns about how your child is progressing with their reading, please come and speak with me so that I can share more personalised strategies. 

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

For the next two weeks we are going to focus on spelling contractions. It is crucial that the children learn to join the letters accurately and where an apostrophe is the letters either side of it cannot be joined.

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 29th April are listed in your blue reading diary.

Times Tables 

https://ttrockstars.com/

Please complete your times tables work sheet for this week. Some children have now moved on to learning their 5 x tables! Well done! If you would like your child to progress quicker, please access times tables rockstars to support their times tables knowledge. 

Please also use Hit the Button and choose the 5 x table facts to help prepare for our 5 x tables test which lots of children are now working on.  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

If you have any worries or queries, please do not hesistate to get into contact with me.

Have a lovely, safe weekend!

Miss Thwaites and Mrs Elson