Starlings blog 1.10.20

Date: 1st Oct 2020 @ 9:46pm

Hello Starlings, it's that time of week again, can you believe it? 

What a fantastic week we have had in class this week. Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling, Mrs. Southern and myself are so very proud of all of your hard work! 

In English this week, we finished our 'Look Up' unit of work. Everybody wrote their own version of the story by recalling the main events. The children had to work very hard on 'holding a sentence' and remembering our ideas, and then fred talking words to segment and blend to write words using our phonics knowledge. We are so proud of our work and Mrs. O'Marah said that finishing a story is a huge achievement because it makes us a writer! Please look at Twitter for some pictures of our work. Next week we will begin our new unit of work, we are so excited to introduce the name of the story to the children in class that you'll have to watch this space and wait for the big reveal on Monday! All we can tell you is that it's an adventure story... 

For National Poetry Day Mrs. O'Marah read the poem 'The Rainbow' by Christina Rossetti and we talked about how rainbows can inspire us to spread kindness. We used worry time to share things we feel worried about and what makes us feel better when we are sad. 

In Phonics, the children will be coming home with a new phonics book on Friday. Here's a little snippet of what each group have done this week:

Green group (sorry Mrs. O'Marah missed you out in last week's blog) 

Book: Six fish

Sounds: ee, igh, ow 

Yellow group

Book: The Duck Chick

Sounds: are, ur, er 

Pink group

Book: The Dressing Up Box

Sounds: aw, are, ur 

Silver group

Book: Sound blending book 2

Sounds focus: Practising 'Fred in your head' 

Gold group

Book: Daily ditties 

Sounds focus: Practising fluency

Red group 

Book: Pick it up 

Sounds focus: y, w, v, x, th 

In Maths we have continued our work on part, part, whole for numbers 0-5 and have extended our learning by looking at a bar model to help with partitioning numbers into two parts. Now we are moving on to numbers up to 10. We are practising number names as well as recognising the numeral form (for example 'six' and 6). 

Next week we are moving onto recognising numbers above 5 as '5 and a bit'. First we will use objects, pictures and games and then we will move onto showing our understanding in a part, part, whole diagram. We will also learn about the positioning of numbers to 10 on a number line. 

Enjoy your weekend

From 

Mrs. O'Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern