Rocket Phonics – 16th October 2023

This week in out phonics lessons, Year 2 will be focusing on the sounds:

  • ‘ci’ as in musician
  • ‘ssi’ as in percussion

We will be reading and spelling words including these phonemes, such as special, official, artificial, musician, optician, mission, passion, permission

We will also be continuing to practise reading and spelling the common exception words:

  • who
  • again
  • many
  • laughed
  • because
  • any
  • eyes
  • friends
  • once
  • please

Rocket Phonics – 2nd October 2023

Year 2

This week in out phonics lessons, Year 2 will be focusing on the sounds:

  • ‘ture’ as in picture
  • ‘y’ as in pyramid
  • ‘sc’ as in scissors

We will be reading and spelling words including these phonemes, such as picture, mixture, nature, gym, mystery, pyramid, scissors, science, scene.

We will also be continuing to practise reading and spelling the common exception words:

  • oh
  • their
  • people
  • Mr
  • Mrs
  • looked
  • called
  • asked
  • could
  • water
  • where

Times Tables 16.6.23 – 23.6.23

This week’s facts are:

1 x 10 = 10                             10 ÷ 1 = 10

2 x 10 = 20                              20 ÷ 2 = 10

3 x 10 = 30                              30 ÷ 3 = 10

10 x 1 = 10                              10 ÷ 10 = 1

10 x 2 = 20                               20 ÷ 10 = 2

10 x 3 = 30                              30 ÷ 10 = 3

Year 2 Spellings and Phonics Week Beginning 19.6.23

In our phonics sessions, Year 2 will be continuing to focus on words which contain the long /oo/ sound in words where is spelt with u-e, ou, ue and ew. We will not be testing the children on these words, but look for them in their classwork.

Examples of the types of words are:

rules, cute

you, group,

glue, true,

grew, blew, threw

Times Tables Facts 9.6.23 – 16.6.23

This week’s facts are:

11 x 5 = 55                                55 ÷ 5 = 11

12 x 5 = 60                               60 ÷ 5 = 12

5 x 11 – 55                                 55 ÷ 11 = 5

5 x 12 = 60                               60 ÷ 5 = 12