Starlings blog 8.10.20

Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 7:51pm

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

What a fun week we have had in class. This week the children have loved learning about the life of Mary Anning and using their super history explorer skills to place the events of her life in chronological order.

To help us to understand what Mental Health Awareness week is, on Friday we made our own class happy jar that will be proudly displayed on the hall alongside the other class jars. We all made our own version too to show what makes us happy. 

In Science we have been on an Autumn scavenger hunt to help us to observe, describe and understand the changing seasons. We recorded what we found after talking about what we might expect to see. 

In English this week we have loved starting our new unit of work based on the story 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers. We started off by using objects and pictures as clues about the story, we used these to make predictions about what might happen. We then wrote sentences about what we could see and wrote speech bubbles for each of the characters. We began to set up our very own class Lost and Found office and wrote labels for some lost animals to keep safe until their owner could come and collect them. 

We are continuing to work hard on holding (or remembering) a sentence, and using our Fred talking from phonics to help us to spell words. We are really working hard on full stops to punctuate sentences, and on using capital letters at the beginning of our sentences and when writing names. 

In Maths we have progressed onto numbers 6-10 this week. We looked at the position of numbers to 10 on the number line and began to explore odd and even numbers. We have continued our work on using a part, part, whole cherry diagram to partition numbers in two, and sometimes 3, parts. Next week we will be learning how to add two parts together using the symbols + and = to help us to build number sentences. 

For Phonics this week, we have been working on the following in each of our groups: 

Pink group -

Sounds focus: er, ow, ai

Book: Scruffy Ted 

Yellow group - 

Sounds focus: ow, ai, oa

Book: Lost

Silver group - 

Sounds focus: Review of set 1 sounds 

Book: Sound blending book 3

Gold group - 

Sounds focus: Review of set 1 sounds 

Book: Daily ditties 

Red group - 

Sounds focus: review of 'special friends' ch, sh, qu, ng and nk

Book: Wuff Wuff 

Green group - 

Sounds focus: ir, igh, or

Book: The Witch's Lunch 

Thank you all for working so hard this week our little superstars! 

Have a wonderful weekend.

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