St Joseph's

To support the children with their phonic screen test and becoming more fluent at reading, we are adding these documents which you can go through t any time and at your child's pace. Remind your child about Fred Fingers when sounding a word out and say special fiends so they can identify the digraph in the word (two letters that make one sound). Also be aware of the split digraphs (a-e, i-e, u-e and o-e) such as in take, ride, tune and hope. There are also nonsense words on here which have an alien at the side of them. Your child has to use their phonics to read them as they are and not change them into a real word. Use these resources for the whole year until your child is sight reading some or most of the real words.

• Set 3 multisyllabic words.pdf
• Set 1 multisyllabic words.pdf
• Set 2 multisyllabic words.pdf
• Set 1 Nonsense words.pdf
• Set 2 Nonsense words.pdf
• Set 3 Nonsense words.pdf

Please practice reading a few of these words at a time and practice to spell them correctly too.

• T-L-5089-Common-Exception-Words-Years-1-and-2-Word-Mat_ver_9.pdf

If you have not already, please practise the two songs for our scene. The links are here: They came to a Christmas Party - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXGTc09ulfY Everyone's Asleep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMOMuPB0Ck I have attached the lyrics for you as well. Enjoy!

• Nativity Songs Lyrics.docx

Two times a week we practise our skipping, the children are improving and enjoy using the large skipping rope. We are working on doing double bounces between each skip, so please practise at home if you can.

On Friday the 19th of November, we came dressed up as who we think are heroes to us. We had doctors, nurses, a shop worker, scientist, mums, police officers, a firefighter, Mary Poppins and a Steve Jobs! They all told me about their hero and why they chose them. It was a very fun day.

We have just finished our topic on a significant person from history which was Neil Armstrong. The children role-played the moon landing, created the moons surface with puppets and added detail of the moon landing to it and made parachutes to show the module coming back down to Earth.

To start our mysteries topic in R.E. we discussed what we think heaven looks like. The children created artwork using oil pastels and explained their creations to me afterwards. Beautiful ideas children!

During the first half term the children spent the afternoon with Chris who came in and taught them about den building. We worked as part of a team and synerigzed which is habit 6 from our leader and me learning. They all loved it and learnt some valuable skills. some of the children got wet when we tested how waterproof the dens were. The children showed great listening skills and helped to tidy all the equipment away afterward. It was a fantastic day!

We learnt about the story of Abram and his wife Sarai and how they had faith in God's plan for them. Abram and Sarai had to leave their home to make a new nation in Canaan. God told Abram to look to the stars as that would be how many descendants he would have, God changed Abram's name to Abraham which means father of many. The children role-played the story and remember so much. They also wrote about the story, here are some examples of their work.