English News

3-6

Spelling - Soundwaves

Weeks 5 (Unit 32) , 6 (Unit 33) and 7 (Unit 34)

Kim Hill 

Years 3-6 English Coordinator

K-2 News

Phonics Update 

Kindergarten   

Week 4: Consolidating  wh and ph:  whip  when  whack  whiz  whiff  whisk  graph  dolphin  phonics

Week 5: Soft g and c: (rule: the g and c are soft when followed by an e, i or y)  gem  gent   gel  angel  cent  cents   pencil  

 Year 1 

Week 4: /air/ and /ear/: fair  pair  hair  fairy  repair  chair  flair   ear  dear  hear  gear  clear  spear  smear  yearly  appear 

Week 5: :/are/ and /eer/: care  fare  bare  scare  stare  share  spare  deer  peer  steer  cheer  sneer  career

Year 2

Week 4: f to v plurals (rule: some words ending in ‘f’ are changed into plurals by changing f to v and adding es)  leaves  loaves  knives  shelves  halves  thieves  lives  wives  wolves  

Week 5:  Revising Year 2 Content:  Teachers will be revising the sounds that students had more difficulty grasping for the remainder of the year in preparation for Year 3

Mrs Kate Gill

K-2 English Coordinator