Starlings blog 12.11.20

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 9:23pm

Hello lovely Starlings and welcome to this week's blog. 

What another busy week we have had in class. 

Thank you for all of the recyclable materials, the children had a wonderful time working collaboratively to make their very own Boris robots as part of our Heartsmart PSHE work. 

We were also thrilled to welcome Teddy back to class on Monday, we missed him last week because of the INSET day. 

Science 

This week we have started our new topic of work all about animals. We identified and named common animals and matched them to their animal group including mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians and birds. 

Maths 

We continued with our power maths work this week and have looked at counting more and less, counting and comparing groups of objects and comparing numbers. 

Next week we will be learning to order objects and numbers in ascending and descending order, order numbers using ordinal positions like first, second and third, and using a number line to support this.  

English 

This week we started our new unit of Writing work based on our new book 'Nibbles the book monster' by Emma Yarlett. Our focus for this unit of work will be to make inferences and predictions about what we are reading, and to write a diary entry in role as Nibbles. 

This week we have made a wanted poster and made predictions about the story. We used our phonics knowledge to spell words independently. 

Next week we will be retelling popular fairy tale stories like Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood and talking about how the main characters feel. 

Phonics and Spelling 

Don't forget, each Friday we will be having a spelling quiz. Words to learn are found in reading diaries on the sticker, and use the spelling practise whiteboards sent home last week to practise. 

This week in phonics, we have focused on:

Pink group

Sounds focus: u_e, aw 

Book: 'Scruffy Ted'

Green group 

Sounds focus: oo, ar 

Book: 'Six fish' 

Yellow group

Sounds focus: e, au 

Book: 'A mouse in the house'

Orange group

Sounds focus: u_e, aw 

Book: 'Follow me' 

Red group

Sounds focus: b, d, p, j

Book: 'Got Him'

Speed sound book: your child will be coming home with a speed sound book this Friday (13th November). Instructions for how to use the book are on the first page. These books can stay at home. It would help your child if you practise speed reading these sounds with them as often as possible. It is important that any incorrect pronunciation is remodelled where appropriate, both in school and at home. Thank you, as always for your support with learning at home, we really do appreciate it! 

Have a lovely week

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