Starlings WB 29.11.21

Date: 25th Nov 2021 @ 9:48pm

 

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 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 now he has nibbled through Goldilocks and the three bears and eaten Baby Bear’s porridge! This week Nibbles has eaten his way through Little Red and taken her cape! What will he do next?

Maths

Starlings class have continued to explore the inverse operations of numbers.  We have also been looking at how addition is commutative and even when the numbers change the sum remains the same ( 4 + 2 = 6, 2 + 4 = 6)

RWI 

 

 

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 26.11.2021

Follow Me

Can you see me?

 

New sounds:

• ire- fire
• ear- hear with your ear
• ure- sure it’s pure
• tion- pay attention it’s a celebration

 

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 26.11.2021

• Fun at the fair
• A mouse in the house

 

New sounds: New sounds:

• ire- fire fire
• ear- hear with your ear
• ure- sure it’s pure
• tion- pay attention it’s a celebration

 

 

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 26.11.21

At the seaside

A hole in my tooth

New sounds:

• Ire- fire fire
• ear- hear with your ear
• ure- sure it’s pure
• tion- pay attention it’s a celebration

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at our non-fiction books and the features of those books.

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound cards. There are also speed words in the back of the books too.

 

Green Group – Mrs Southern 26.11.21

Tug, Tug

Lots of fish

New sounds:

• igh – fly high
• ow – blow the snow
• oo – poo at the zoo
• oo – look at a book
• ar – start the car

Reading focus: Check for special friends in every word.

 

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 26.11.21

The dressing up box

Sam’s Bag

 

New sounds

• ai – snail in the rain
• oa – goat in a boat
• ew – chew the stew

 

Reading focus This week we have been focusing on the punctuation in our book and changing the intonation In our voice to reflect this.

 

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 26.11.21

 

Dear Vampire

The Train of Fear

Mythical Monsters

 

This week, we have been learning about using ‘y’ as a suffix and learning the rules about doubling the last consonant before adding ‘y’.

 

Practise reading and writing these words using our new rule:

mud = muddy, sag = saggy, bog = boggy, fun = funny, run = runny

 

Reading focus: We have been looking at clues in the text to tell us what might happen next in the story.

 

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 26.11.21

 

The Foolish Witch

Tom’s Cooking Class

What’s in the Woods?

 

We have been revising our Set 3 sounds:

• ew – chew the stew
• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse

 

 

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on being super speedy readers.

 

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

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Southern 26.11.21

Pin it on

Let’s get wet

Practise our sounds of the week:

• ch
• qu
• ng
• nk

 

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 3^rd December are

do to today so day

 

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.