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Rocket Phonics- 23rd September 2024

In our phonics lessons this week year 2 have been looking at the sounds:

  • ch+u as ture
  • s as in treasure
  • si as in television
  • ge as in collage

We will be reading and spelling words including these phonemes, such as gnat, gnome, wren, write, patch and match.

We are learning how to read and spell common exception words too these are:

  • asked
  • could
  • water
  • where

Rocket Phonics

In our phonics lessons this week year 2 have been looking at the sounds:

  • gn as in sign
  • wr as in writing
  • tch as in hatching

We will be reading and spelling words including these phonemes, such as gnat, gnome, wren, write, patch and match.

We are learning how to read and spell common exception words too these are:

  • asked
  • could

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

Year 2 Spelling Focus w/b 21st March 2022

This week in their spelling lessons, Year 2 will be focusing on the ‘or’ family of words, particularly the sound being spelt with an a when it comes before an -l or -ll.

The words they will be focusing on include:

  • all
  • also
  • always
  • ball
  • call
  • fall
  • stalk
  • talk
  • tall
  • walk

The children will not be tested on these words, but we will be challenging them to be including them in their writing and looking for application in their work.

Year 2 Spelling Focus w/b 1st November 2021

This week in their spelling lessons, Year Two will be focusing on common exception words. Common exception words are words that do not follow the common phonetic spelling rules children learn in Year 1 and Year 2. These are also called tricky words or sight words as you must learn to recognise them, and can’t sound them out. They aren’t decodable using the normal rules and letter-sounds in phonics.

The words they will be focusing on include:

  • again
  • busy
  • Christmas
  • cold
  • eye
  • fast
  • father
  • old
  • parents
  • poor
  • pretty
  • wild

The children will not be tested on these spellings, but we will be looking for application of them in their writing.

Year 2 Spelling Focus w/b 4th October 2021

This week in their spelling lessons, Year 2 will be focusing on adding –s and –es to the ends of words and knowing how to know which is the correct ending to the word they are writing. They will also be learning about what to do when they need to add an ‘s’ to a word ending with ‘y’.

The words they will be focusing on include:

  • baby (babies)
  • carry (carries)
  • copy (copies)
  • cry (cries)
  • dry (dries)
  • fly (flies)
  • reply (replies)
  • sky (skies)
  • try (tries)

The children will not be tested on these words, but we will be challenging them to be including them in their writing and looking for application in their work.

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