Cross Gates
Primary School
Aspire, Learn, Succeed
This week we have been reading longer words, words ending in -ing and compound words. A compound word is where two or more words combine to form a new word (e.g. lap and top combine to make laptop).
We continue to follow our reading mantra and it will be useful for you to apply the same approach at home too:
Spot the digraph(s)
Say the sounds
Blend to read
This week, please could you practise reading and writing the following words and captions at home:
market looking zooming farmyard
finger marching winking rooftop
towel farming singing carpark
cornet cooking fighting popcorn
river waiting chatting
wooden morning
A wooden boat sails down the river.
We are up at night looking at the moon.
She is zooming down the hill.
It is fun chatting and singing in the rooftop garden.
The words we have been practising writing are:
river looking singing carpark towel
finger waiting zooming fantastic
On Friday we practised writing the sentence:
The goat was born this morning.
This half term we will not be introducing any new tricky words but we will be spending a lot of time revisiting the ones we have learned so far. this week we revised:
he we me be was you they all