STARLINGS WB 11.10.21

Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 2:37pm

 

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

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 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

In our English lessons next week, we will be coming to the end of our unit.  As a class we have created a story pathway help us sequence the events. We will then write our own adventure story based on the ‘Lost and Found text’ but with a new character.

Maths

Next week we will be exploring the composition of numbers 6-10 and we will continue to discuss odd and even numbers.

RWI 

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 8.10.2021

Our House

Greyhounds

Cool Houses

 

New sounds:

• Ire – fire fire
• Ew – chew the stew
• Oa – Goat in a boat
• Ai – snail in the rain

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?  

 

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 8.10.2021

How silly!

Silly games

April Fool!

 

New sounds:

• Ire – fire fire
• Ew – chew the stew
• Oa – Goat in a boat
• Ai – snail in the rain

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?

 

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 8.10.21

Lost

Which way is it ?

No way

New sounds:

• ew – chew the stew
• ear – hear with your ear
• ure- sure it's pure
• tion – it’s a celebration

 

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

Reading focus: We have been looking at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our red words. You can’t Fred a red! These focus red words are found at the beginning of the book.

We have also been practising our speedy green words by saying; Special friends, Fred talk read the word.

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 08.10.21

Come on Margo

Dads and karts

New sounds:

• oa – goat in a boat
• ew – chew the stew
• ire – fire fire!
• ear – hear with your ear

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

Reading focus: Trying to read using ‘Fred in our head’ instead of fed talking out loud.

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 08.10.21

Tab’s Kitten

Yap Yap

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

 

Reading focus: keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red!

 

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 08.10.21

Chips

Beth’s Chip Shop

 

Practise our sounds of the week:

• ee – what can you see?
• igh – fly high
• ow – blow the snow
• oo –look at a book

 

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

 

Reading focus: keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red!

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Judge 08.10.21

Wuff Wuff

Nip, Nip, Nip

 

New sounds:

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

 

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

 

Reading focus: keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red!

 

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 08.10.21

Ditty sheets 7,8 and 9

New sounds:

• f
• e
• l
• h

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

 

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 15th October are

first second third fourth fifth

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.

Design & technology

Thank you so much for all the ‘junk modelling’ you kindly brought in for the children.   They had a fantastic ‘tinkering’ session where they designed and built a vehicle after which we tested it for strength and suitability.  We discovered that we needed to design something that would enable the wheels to turn and we also needed something stronger than a straw to support the wheels!