Starlings blog 19.11.20

Date: 19th Nov 2020 @ 9:05pm

Hello Starlings and welcome to this week's blog

What another fun and busy week we have had! We have been getting into the Christmas spirit as we prepare for our virtual Christmas play. All the children who asked for a speaking part have been given one and lines have been sent home for practising. Please spend time learning these and becoming confident with using your loudest and proudest voice to say your lines in the best possible way on filming day! 

We do hope you saw on Twitter that our class councillors for school council and our Ethos group representatives have been voted and chosen in class and we are so looking forward to see how these superstars represent our class. 

In English, we are still enjoying reading our new class book 'Nibbles the Book Monster', we have used a diary entry to retell the stories of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood. We have also started to look at the concept of singular and plural. 

Next week we will continue with making predictions and retelling traditional tales. We will also be giving Nibbles clear instructions, as well as using the word 'and' to connect two sentences. 

In Maths, we have completed our first unit of work in Power Maths and have focussed our learning this week on understanding the order of numbers on a number line. Next week we will move onto using part-whole within numbers to 10.

In Phonics this week, our focus has been:

Pink Group 

Sounds focus: are, ur, er, ck

Book: 'The Dressing Up Box'

Red Group 

Sounds focus: y, ck, d, h

Book: 'Let's Sing'

Yellow Group

Sounds focus: e_e, ck, kn

Book: 'Grow your own Radishes'

Orange Group

Sounds focus: are, ue, er, ow

Book: 'Come on Margo!'

Green Group

Sounds focus: or, air, ir

Book: 'Black Hat Bob'

Children will come home with a new set of 5 words to learn this week so please practise these as often as possible ready for our Friday quiz. 

Have a lovely weekend, 

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