STARLINGS WB 4.10.21

Date: 29th Sep 2021 @ 9:13pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Starlings Class ?.

 

I have really enjoyed talking to you and letting you know how fantastically well your little Starling has settled into Year 1.

Thank you so much for your continued support, Mrs Southern and I  really appreciate it.

Our gorgeous Starlings, together with the other children in KS1, have really enjoyed attending worship in the hall. We have also all been on a tour of the school as this is a brand-new experience for them all.

We continue to be proud of all our Starlings as they continue to try their best and work hard in their lessons.

Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Starling at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime storybooks are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

 

English

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our text ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers.  We have been discussing how the different characters have felt during the story and we will be continuing with this next week when we create an emotions graph together.  We have also been enjoying our additional class text ‘Meerkat mail’ by Emily Gravett. So Far Sunny has left home and has sent a postcard to his family telling them of his adventures.

Maths

Next week we will be continuing exploring the composition of numbers 0-5 before progressing on to the composition of numbers 6-10.

RWI 

 

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 1.10.2021 

King of the birds 

The thirsty cow 

Birds! 

New sounds: 

• ur– nurse with a purse 
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain

Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence? 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card. 

 

 

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 1.10.2021 

Looking after a hamster 

Bert the explorer 

A pet or pest? 

 

New sounds: 

• ur– nurse with a purse 
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain
•  

Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence? 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card. 

 

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 1.10.21 

 

Robin Hood 

A big bag of cash 

Bushcraft 

 

New sounds: 

er- better letter 

ow – brown cow 

ai- snail in the rain 

oa - goat in a boat 

  

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. Can you find the special friends really quickly? 

Reading focus: We have been looking at our punctuation this week. Can you find the question marks and exclamations? The punctuation helps us with our reading and our understanding of the story. 

 

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 01.10.21 

 

Too much! 

A bad mood 

 

New sounds: 

• ur- nurse with a purse 
• er - a better letter
• ow - brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain
•  

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. 

Reading focus: Watching out for exclamation marks so that we can really emphasise the word. 

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 01.10.2020 

The dressing up box 

Sam’s Bag 

 

• New sounds
• ur– nurse with a purse 
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow

 

Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy! 

 

Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card. 

 

Green Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 01.10.21 

 

Black Hat Bob 

Red Hat Rob 

 

New sounds: 

• ir– whirl and twirl 
• ou– shout it out 
• oy – toy to enjoy

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.  

 

Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy! 

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Judge 01.10.21 

Jam 

The Big Net 

Practise our special friends: 

• qu– qu, qu, queen 
• ng – a thing on a string
• nk– I think I stink 
• sh– shhhh says the horse to the hissing snake 
• th– thank you says the princess to the horse 
• ch– ch ch choooo sneezes the horse 

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.  

 

Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader.  

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 01.10.21 

Ditty sheets 4,5 and 6 

New sounds:  

• c
• k
• u
• b

Reading focus: Fred talking a little faster so that words can be blended easier. 

 Homework

Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime storybooks. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. 

Spellings

During the Autumn term, our spellings will be focused on the Year One Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page of the previous week's. 

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 8th October are

six seven eight nine ten

PE

Our PE days will be Wednesday and Friday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. Can we also ask that your child has a drink bottle that is clearly named and contains only water. We also request that if your child wears trainers with laces they are able to independently retie them if they become undone otherwise can they please wear trainers with a Velcro fastening.