Starlings WB 22.11.21

Date: 21st Nov 2021 @ 10:06pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog!

We have had such a lovely week.  We have been practising the songs for our Christmas play and I have to say we are so proud of how well they are doing and they already sound amazing!

We are also loving the enthusiasm and excitement the children are showing with our new class text ‘Nibbles’.  The work they have already produced is fantastic.

You may have had a visit from Bertie or Matilda.  Starlings class are looking at the seasons and the changes that occur and in particular, we have been discussing how it goes darker much earlier in Autumn and Winter than it does in Spring and Summer.

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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 story books 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 chdilren have been introduced to our new class text ‘Nibbles’. He has already nibbled through the book and some paper and now he has nibbled through Goldilocks and the three bears and eaten Baby Bear’s porridge!

Maths

This week following form our addition work we have been looking at subtraction and missing numbers.  Starlings class have also been exploring the fact that addition and subtraction are inverse operations and how understanding this helps us to calculate number sentences with missing numbers.

RWI 

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 19.11.2021 

A bad fright 

Fright night  

 

New sounds: 

er – A better letter 

ow – brown cow  

ai – snail in the rain  

oa – goat in a boat 

ew – chew the stew  

 

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 19.11.2021 

• A sweetcorn salad
• In the Park

 

New sounds: New sounds: 

er – A better letter 

ow – brown cow  

ai – snail in the rain  

oa – goat in a boat 

ew – chew the stew 

 

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.  

 

 

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 19.11.21 

The hole on the hill 

All alone 

Making sounds with instruments 

 

New sounds: 

• er – better letter
• ow- brown cow
• oa- goat inboat 
• ai – snail in the rain
• ew– chew the stew 

  

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been focusing on using  tone and pace with our voice to help with understand and enjoying the story better. 

 

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 19.11.21 

The Spell 

A witch’s lunch 

New sounds: 

• ir–whirl and twirl 
• ou– shout it out 
• oy– a toy to enjoy 
• ay– may I play? 
• ee– what can you see? 

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 19.11.21 

In The Sun 

Rags 

New sounds 

• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse
• er – a better letter
• ow – brown cow

 

 

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 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.  

 

Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 19.11.21 

 

Andrew 

The Lifeboat Crew 

The Deep Blue Sea 

 

This week, we have continued looking at the soft ‘c’ sound which comes before e, i and y. 

 

Practise reading and writing these words with the soft ‘c’ sound:  

circus, price, notice, concentrate, police 

 

Reading focus: We have been finding evidence in the text to prove what we know 

 

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

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Brennan 19.11.21 

 

Danny and the Bump-a-lump 

Just Let Me Sleep 

Fun at Night 

 

 

New sounds: 

• kn – knock, knock
• ph– take a photo 
• wh– whisk, whisk 

 

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on speed reading so we can become super speedy readers. Remember that if we know the word, we don’t need to Fred talk it. 

 

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

 

 

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 19.11.21 

Ditty sheets 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 

Practise our sounds of the week: 

• nk
• ck
• th
• sh
• ch

 

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 26th^th November are

I put are says were

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.