Just a polite reminder please for year 1 and 2 parents to pay for our exciting pantomime treat. We do this every year and the children enjoy it so much but we must have payment from everyone for this to continue. Thank you so much for your support as always x x
Following our wonderful parents/carers phonics session today, and in preparation for our lesson tomorrow, I am re-posting this blog with instructions on how to access and log in to Letter Join. In addition to this I have added a list of links to phonics game websites and links to other useful activities to support the children’s learning…
Here are the login details for you to access this wonderful letter formation app that is available online or from the ‘Other Apps’ section of the Green Top website. To access either log in at www.letterjoin.co.uk from a web browser or click the icon below in the top right hand corner of the Green Top website and scroll down to the Letter-Join app.
On the home screen, choose either the ‘Desktop’ or ‘Tablet’ option depending on which you are using and enter the log in details from the screenshot below. Once you are logged in, choose ‘Year 1’ and off you go! You can watch the letters being formed and then have a go at forming them yourself. This does work on a laptop but is much more effective using the touchscreen on a tablet or IPad. Anyone who sends in a photograph of them using the letter formation activities will earn 20 HoWL points!
Any questions please ask.
Enjoy!
Miss R x
https://phonicsplaycomics.co.uk
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html
https://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html
How To Pronounce The 26 Letter Sounds
RED WORDS SET 1 | Read Write Inc. Words | Tricky Words | Star Words | Phonics Song | LOU BEE ABC
RED WORDS SET 2 | RWI | Tricky Words | Phonics Song | Sight Words | Star Words | LOU BEE ABC
RED WORDS SET 3 | tricky words | phonics song for EYFS and KS1 | Read Write Words | Star Words
YEAR 1 Common Exception Words UK | CE words | Sight Words | LOU BEE ABC
Year 2 Common Exception Words | Sight Words UK | LOU BEE ABC
On Friday the children in class 6 spent the morning learning about Hinduism. We watched a video that told the traditional tale of Rama and Sita and then painted Rangoli patterns which are considered to be lucky in the Hindu faith. We also learned a traditional greeting…
Namaste from Class 6!
Over the last few weeks before half term the children have been painting poppies to decorate the school fences. They used collage work to decorate poppies to take home. Lovely work from everyone!
We would like to invite parents of Year 1 children to join our Phonics and Shared Reading lessons for a day. This will be a live lesson with a teacher delivering the normal daily lesson to a group of children. You are invited to observe the lesson and to partner up with your child so they can show you the skills they are learning. As this is a live lesson we are unfortunately unable to allow any younger siblings into the classrooms for these sessions.
This session will be useful for parents/carers to see how children learn phonics in school and how they learn to read and write. This will help parents understand how they can support children at home with their school reading books.
As we have 4 phonics groups these sessions will need to take place over two days:
Tuesday 12th November – Miss Schon and Miss Rodgers phonics groups
Wednesday 13th November – Miss Cooper and Mrs Clay’s phonics groups
Your child will bring a letter home tomorrow highlighting which day you are able to attend.
The session will run from 9am-10am. Tea and coffee will be available in the school hall after 8:30am for parents to wait for the sessions to begin. Miss Schon and Miss Rodgers will also be available at 10am after the sessions have finished if you have any further questions or concerns.
We kindly ask that you arrive to the lesson promptly as late comers will impact on the children’s learning.
We hope you can make it!
Miss Schon and Miss Rodgers
This week the children in Miss Schon and Miss Rodger’s groups are learning ‘ou – Shout it out’. We are also remembering ‘ow – brown cow’. When spelling words we are learning which words are spelt using /ou/ and which ones are spelt using /ow/. We are also continuing to practise our reading fluency. Can we read sentences fluently without having to sound out the words? The children can practise this in their reading books at home by re-reading sentences or pages in their books so they can see they are able to read faster and more effortlessly. Please encourage children to read their reading books more than once so they feel they have achieved this.
We had a wonderful day consolidating our learning at Lincoln Castle today. The children were wonderfully well-behaved and loved sharing their learning with the staff at the castle. Our day was jam-packed with activities, from handling armour in the Victorian prison, to designing coats of arms, re-enacting a banquet and finishing our day by walking part of the huge wall and visiting the inside of one of the towers!
A huge thanks to everyone involved with making our day fantastic and a special mention to the children who made me proud, as always, with their excellent manners.
This half term we have been focussing on spelling red words. We will now consolidate our learning by practising spelling all of the red words we have been learning this half term. We have added two new red words ‘little’ and ‘your’ which we have introduced in class during our lessons. I wonder which red words you can remember to spell and which ones you need more practise with?
The children (and staff!) had a fantastic time dancing their socks off at our Autumn disco this evening. There were some amazing costumes and everyone had so much fun. A huge thanks go to our wonderful PTA, Friends of Green Top for organising this, and many other fabulous events that raise so much money for our school. You ladies rock!
Apologies for the somewhat blurry photographs in the slideshow below…it was difficult trying to get the children to stay still for the pictures!
A huge well done to all of our community crew winners this week. You have had a fantastic week, modelling beautiful manners and producing really great work. A huge well done too because our first reading certificate was handed out this week for reading 30 books so far, I can’t wait to see more get handed out! Well done key stage 1! Keep up the great work!
