Listed below is the reading, spelling and maths focus for each group.

Reading
Lemons – Monster Meal
Strawberries – Yo-Yo a Go-Go
Pineapples – A Boy Called Sam
Grapes – The Lions Dinner

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

Spelling
The children will be spending the beginning of the term revising phonemes and common words learned in Primary 1 to ensure retention and that they are secure to move on. 

A large majority of the red team are still finding ‘ph’ tricky so we’re going to spend another week working on this phoneme. If you feel your child is confident with these particular ‘ph’ words, they could be challenged by finding ‘ph’ words that are not on their list to practise.

Red Team
‘ph’ Phoneme – Phil, elephant, dolphin, phonics. phoneme
Common Words –one, first, little,

A large majority of the purple team are still finding ‘wh’ tricky so we’re going to spend another week working on this phoneme. If you feel your child is confident with these particular ‘ph’ words, they could be challenged by finding ‘ph’ words that are not on their list to practise.

Purple Team
‘wh’ Phoneme – whisk, when, whisper, whip,
Common Words – out, now, new

Yellow Team
ran, rim, man, Sam, dip, pen, met

Your child has been provided with a spelling activities sheet. Each night, they should complete a spelling activity. This can be a combination of written and active tasks throughout the week, to ensure your child has a firm grasp of the weekly phoneme words and common words.

A spelling test and dictation will be done at the end of the week in class to ensure the children are secure before they progress.

Maths
The children have been given a mental maths booklet to encourage fast recall of addition number facts. This can be worked on in the upcoming weeks, one page per week.

Additionally, we have been revising jigsaw numbers within 10 in class. You could go over this with your child at home. We are also working on reading and writing numbers 0-100. Following this we will progress to ordering numbers in ascending and descending order.