Starlings WB 15.11.21

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 6:47pm

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog!

We have had such a lovely week and the children are especially our new writing text ‘Nibbles’.

Can you believe we are now on the Christmas stretch and what exciting things we have to look forward to this half term

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

This week we the children have been introduced to our new class text ‘Nibbles’. He has already nibbled through the book and some paper and we are wondering what he might nibble next!

Maths

This week our focus has been on adding numbers using various resources to support our learning.

RWI

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 12.11.2021

I think I want to be a bee

A vet’s week

New sounds:

o-e phone home
u-e – huge brute
are – care and share
ur – nurse with a purse
aw – yawn at dawn

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!

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 each speed sound card.

Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 12.11.2021

The Foolish Witch

Tom’s cooking class

What’s in the woods?

New sounds:

o-e phone home
u-e – huge brute
are – care and share
ur – nurse with a purse
aw – yawn at dawn

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 12.11.21

A box full of light

Dick Whittingham

The Sun

New sounds:

o-e phone home
u-e – huge brute
are – care and share
ur – nurse with a purse

Reading focus: We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at the speedy words at the back of the book to help improve the pace of our reading. We aim to be super, speedy readers.

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

Green Group – Mrs Southern 12.11.21

My dog Ned

Pat, the vet

New sounds:

oo– poo at the zoo
oo – look at a book
ar – start the car
or – shut the door
air – that’s not fair

Reading focus: Point to the words as you are reading them.

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

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 12.11.21

Tab the cat

Pip the parrot

New sounds

i_e - nice smile
o_e - phone home
u_e - huge brute
aw - yawn at dawn

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word.

Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 12.11.21

Toad

Frog or Toad?

Pond Life

This week, we have continued our new RWI spelling scheme and spelling the or sound spelt a before 1 and ll. We have also started looking at the soft ‘c’ sound which we will continue with next week.

Practise reading and writing these words with the or sound: wall, talk, almost, stalk, chalk

Practise reading and writing these words with the soft ‘c’ sound: mice, icy, race, fancy, pencil

Reading focus: We have been focussing on comparing our text with other books we have read.

Yellow Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Brennan 12.11.21

Lost

No Way!

Which Way is it?

New sounds:

ie – terrible tie
au – Paul the Astronaut :
e-e – Go Steve and Pete!
kn – knock, knock

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on punctuation and exploring how an exclamation mark in a sentence changes the way we say the word and encourages our use of expression in our reading.

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

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 12.11.21

Ditty sheets 16, 17, 18

Practise our sounds of the week:

Reading focus: Re-cap the story to check your understanding.

Reading

Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. 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 weeks.

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 19^th November are

is were the was they

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.

Starlings WB 15.11.21

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