Starlings WB 8.11.21

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 7:19pm

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog!

We hope you enjoyed a lovely half term and had lots of fun as a family.

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

We are currently having a sentence focus. We have been exploring how we can make our sentences interesting and we have also been improving my incorrect sentences.

Maths

This week we have been exploring adding numbers together. We have worked hard to group objects and then explore the different ways we can write a number sentence.

RWI

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 5.11.2021

Playday

We can play!

Jam tarts

New sounds:

ea – cup of tea
oi – spoil the boy
a_e – make a cake
i_e – nice smile

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.

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 5.11.2021

Grow your own radishes

The radish contest

plants

New sounds:

ea – a cup of tea
oi – spoil the boy
a_e – make a cake
i_e – nice smile

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.

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 5.11.21

Jelly Bean

Small but deadly

Beastly Pet

New sounds:

ea- cup of tea
oi – spoil the boy
a-e – make a cake
I-e – nice smile

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

Reading focus: We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at different ways of spelling the same in differently.

Green Group – Mrs Southern 5.11.21

On the bus

The din on the bus

New sounds:

ay – may I play?
ee – what can you see?
igh – fly high
ow – blow the snow

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

Reading focus: Use the table at the back of the book to speed read the words from the story.

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 5.11.21

Scruffy Ted

Scruffy Ted gets lost

new sounds

ea – cup of tea
oi – spoil the boy
a_e – make a cake
i_e – nice smile

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 5.11.21

Wailing Winny’s Car Boot Sale

Dad Makes a Mistake

Amazing Caves

This week, we have started our new RWI spelling scheme and have focussed on spelling the or sound spelt a before 1 and ll

Practise reading and writing these words: tall, small, also, always, altogether, already

Reading focus: We have been focussing on reading with expression and using punctuation marks to convey how the characters are feeling.

Yellow Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Brennan 5.11.21

Robin Hood

A Big Bag of Cash

Bushcraft

Practise our new sounds:
e– he, she, we, be, me
ie –terrible tie
au – Paul the astronaut

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

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

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 5.11.21

Ditty sheets 12, 13,14 & 15

Practise our sounds of the week:

Reading focus: Continue to ‘Fred talk’ faster to help you to blend the words.

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 weeks.

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 12^th November are

said your you what I'm

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 8.11.21

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