Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Swallows Blog 29.11.21
Date: 28th Nov 2021 @ 10:56pm
Welcome back to Swallows Class blog
Top Table: Layla Praise: Lukas
We have had yet another wonderful week of super learning in Swallows class this week. Christmas play rehearsals are well underway. Please continue to learn your words at home as there will be no scripts on stage during our live performances. You will have seen already that our performance dates have changed. Thank you to those who have brought costumes in to school already. Please could we have any remaining costumes in school ASAP.
Reminders:
Please note that our PE days this week are Monday and Thursday. Our usual Wednesday cricket session has moved to Thursday for this week only. Please come to school in your PE uniform as usual on this day.
Next Week
We will be completing our termly assessments in school this week. We will complete a selection of ‘Show me what you know’ quizzes. These are used to inform planning and assess progress in Reading and Maths.
Our English work will continue to focus on ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ this week. We will plan and write our own non-chronological reports about cats, using what we have learnt about owls to help us.
We will be completing an exciting science investigation this week where we explore which materials are best for mopping up a spill. We will also link our Science learning to our history topic of ‘flight’ by creating our very own parachutes.
Homework
Read Write Inc
Orange Group- Miss Gillam 26.11.2021
Follow Me
Can you see me?
New sounds:
- ire- fire
- ear- hear with your ear
- ure- sure it’s pure
- tion- pay attention it’s a celebration
Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!
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 each speed sound card.
Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 26.11.2021
- Fun at the fair
- A mouse in the house
New sounds: New sounds:
- ire- fire fire
- ear- hear with your ear
- ure- sure it’s pure
- tion- pay attention it’s a celebration
Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!
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 each speed sound card.
Blue Group– Mrs Elson 26.11.21
At the seaside
A hole in my tooth
New sounds:
- Ire- fire fire
- ear- hear with your ear
- ure- sure it’s pure
- tion- pay attention it’s a celebration
Reading focus: We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at our non-fiction books and the features of those books.
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound cards. There are also speed words in the back of the books too.
Pink Group – Mrs Esling 26.11.21
The dressing up box
Sam’s Bag
New sounds
- ai – snail in the rain
- oa – goat in a boat
- ew – chew the stew
Reading focus This week we have been focusing on the punctuation in our book and changing the intonation In our voice to reflect this.
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 each speed sound card.
Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 26.11.21
Dear Vampire
The Train of Fear
Mythical Monsters
This week, we have been learning about using ‘y’ as a suffix and learning the rules about doubling the last consonant before adding ‘y’.
Practise reading and writing these words using our new rule:
mud = muddy, sag = saggy, bog = boggy, fun = funny, run = runny
Reading focus: We have been looking at clues in the text to tell us what might happen next in the story.
Please use your sounds book to practise words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
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 each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page of the previous weeks.
This week’s spellings to be quizzed on 3rd December are listed in your blue reading diary.
Times Tables
Please complete your times tables work sheet for this week. Some children have now moved onto their silver challenge! Well done!
Please also use Hit the Button and choose the 10 x table facts to help prepare for our silver 10 x tables test which lots of children are now working on. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Miss Gillam