Swallows Blog WB 20.09.2021

Date: 16th Sep 2021 @ 5:50pm

Friday 17^th September 2021

Hello and welcome back to Swallows class blog!

Swallows have had yet another wonderful week of super learning, making Mrs Elson and Miss Gillam proud every single day. We loved designing and describing our own trolls in our Writing lessons, using playdough to explore materials in Science, playing a new song on the ukulele in our Music lesson and much much more! We are such busy, SUPER learners.

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 story books 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.

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 

The Poor Goose  

A horse on Dartmoor 

Running contests 

New sounds: 

• ea- cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a-e- Make a cake
• i-e nice smile

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.  

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

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 

The lion’s paw 

King Midas 

The Romans 

New sounds: 

• ea- cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a-e- Make a cake
• i-e nice smile

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

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.  

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 

Off Sick 

Miss Smith is ill 

What happens to your sandwich 

New sounds: 

 u-e huge brute 

• ea- cup of tea and ee – what can you see 
• oi– spoil the boy 
• a-e- Make a cake

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 Fred talk when reading unfamiliar words and not just having a guess. Fred in our heads helps us to be more fluent readers.  

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 

I think I want to be a bee  

A vet’s week 

New sounds: 

• ea- cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a-e- Make a cake
• i-e nice smile

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

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling  

Tab the cat  

Pip the parrot 

New sounds: 

• ea- cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a-e- Make a cake
• i-e nice smile

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

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

Green Group – Mrs Judge 

My Dog Ned 

Pat, the Vet 

New sounds: 

• ay – may I play
• ee– what can you see 
• Igh– fly high 
• ow – blow the snow

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

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

Next week

Maths – Our Maths work will continue to focus on place value next week.  We will compare and order numbers to 100 and count in multiples of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Having a little count at home will prepare you for this!

English – Our English work will continue to focus on the wonderful story ‘Troll Swap’ this week. We will explore character, write letters and write our own diary entries.

Read Write Inc – Swallows we continue with their Read Write Inc learning this week, focusing on a brand new story. They will bring home new books each Friday. We look forward to completing our first spelling quiz tomorrow too!

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. 

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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 a lovely counting rap to help you.  Enjoy ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NYeVU-Me4

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 this week.  See you on Monday for another week of SUPER learning.

Miss Gillam