Starlings blog 16.10.20

Date: 15th Oct 2020 @ 10:29pm

Hello starlings and welcome back to our weekly blog. 

We have had another very busy week in class this week and we are so proud of all the hard work completed again. 

Phonics

This week we have updated the Read Write Inc phonics assessments so please look out for a label in your child's reading diary which gives information about your child's new phonics group. New groups will begin on Monday 19th October so books for that corresponding colour will be sent home on Friday 23rd October. This week's book will be for your current group. 

Red group

Sounds focus: review of set 1 sounds including n, g, p and k

Book: 'Let's Swim'

Pink group 

Sounds focus: oa, ew, ire

Books: 'Beep! Beep! Clocks and watches 

Green group

Sounds focus: ir, ou, oy

Book: 'What am I?'

Yellow group 

Sounds focus: ew, ire 

Book: 'Do we have to keep it?' 

Silver group

Sounds focus: review of set 1 sounds 

Book: Sound blending book 4 

Gold group

Sounds focus: special friends 'ch' and 'sh'

Book: Daily ditties 

English

This week we have continued to read our story 'Lost and Found'. We have turned our role play corner into a post office to fit with our book and we are enjoying writing using describing words. We have written labels for lost animals, written fact files for different animals and used our senses to describe the waves from the story's storm scene. We are working very hard on using our phonics knoweldge to spell words in our writing. 

Next week we will work on sequencing the events of the story and write sentences to suppport our understanding of this. We will also read some non-fiction books about animals to help us to choose an animal that we could replace the penguin in the story with. 

Maths 

We have progressed onto using our part, part, whole work to help us to build and write number sentences using addition and subtraction. We are using the bar model to help us with this. We have also explored the language of 'not' for subtraction. 

For example we looked at images and stories and asked "There are 6 people. 2 people are wearing coats. How many are not wearing coats?" 

Next week we will continue to explore addition and subtraction. We will learn and use the language of "first, second, third, then and next" to support our work and we will begin to explore the concept of addition and subtraction being 'inverse operations'. 

Science 

We have completed an Autumn scavenger hunt and made our own seasonal windows to describe. This has helped us to explore seasonal changes. We have also started a weather diary to collect data about what the weather is like every day. Next week we will interpret the data to answer questions about the seasons.

Help needed! 

Straight after half term we will be working on making a 'Boris' robot as part of our PSHE, Heartsmart work. To do this we will need lots of recycled items from your homes, such as cereal boxes, kitchen foil tubes, milk bottles, food cartons. Please collect some of these items and bring them into school on or before Friday 23rd October. This will allow enough quarantine/resting time to make the items safe to re-use after the half term. Thank you in advance.

Have a lovely week! 

Mrs. O'Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.