Welcome to Autumn 2, this half term our theme is Light and Dark and our first focus book was Binny’s Diwali.
Our word of the week was Festival and we looked closely at the Hindi festival of Diwali, we talked about the features of a festival- special clothes, special food, a happy celebration.
Phonics
This week, we focused on the new digraphs ff, ll, ss and the single letter phoneme j.
We’ve also learnt the tricky word; as
Tricky words are words that should be read by sight. We start by identifying which part of the word is ‘tricky’. In as, the ‘s’ is tricky because it makes the /z/ sound.
Help at home; World Nursery Rhyme Week
Next week, we’ll be celebrating World Nursery Rhyme Week.
If your child would like to, we’d love to share a recording of them telling their favourite nursery rhyme in class. Please send your videos to stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
Mrs. Kendrew, Mrs. Rippon and Miss. Feldman and Mr. Smith.