This half term Team AC have been working hard in their Read Write Inc sessions, focussing on learning more phonemes to help them become successful, independent readers. Elsewhere in Literacy, the class have been reading 'The Highway Rat' by their acclaimed author Julia Donaldson. It has given the class lots of opportunity for oracy and discussion about the characters and events in the story. They have also used it as a basis for their writing and the class ended the half term with a final independent piece using all the skills they had learnt. Team AC are looking forward to sharing their work with the teachers from their previous class to show what successful writers they are becoming. 

This half term Team CW have started their RWI phonics journey. They have been learning to orally blend and have been playing some “Fred Games” to help them hear words. The team have been learning new sounds and can spot these sounds within a pack of recently learnt sounds. Some of the class have been learning to “Fred Talk Read the Word” to help read CVC words, and some have even been spotting “special friends” in words!
The class' core book this half term has been Owl Babies and they have been learning to join in and retell the story to become familiar with it. As a class, the children have been developing  their oracy skills which will in turn help  them to become good readers and writers. Team CW have started to learn lots of new vocabulary to add to their vocabulary tree and have had lots of fun learning about stories in more depth for Talk Through Stories.  A class favourite has been Supertato! Each day the class vote for their favourite story to be read before home time to help  them maintain their love for stories and books!