Starlings blog 5.11.20

Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 9:12pm

Hello Starlings and welcome back to our class blog page. 

We hope you had a lovely half term together and are ready for an exciting and busy term ahead in school. We are so impressed with the way the children have come back to school with a positive and eager attitude to learning. 

Spellings and Phonics 

Next week your child will be coming home with a Read Write Inc bookmark that corresponds with their current RWI group. Please continue to speed read and write the words on the bookmark to help with fluency. 

In addition to this, 5 common exception words will be sent home in diaries to learn each week. Please use the 'Look-Cover-Write-Check' whiteboard provided to learn these spellings at home.  Each child will be given their own spelling board and pen, these can be kept at home. The children will complete a spelling quiz in school each Friday. Children will then tick and dot against their spelling list to let you know which words they need to continue to learn. 

This week in phonics our focus has been: 

Orange group

Sounds focus: i_e, o_e 

Book: 'I think I want to be a bee' 

Pink group

Sounds focus: i_e, o_e 

Book: 'In the Sun' 

Green group

Sounds focus: ow, oo

Book: 'My dog Ned' 

Yellow group

Sounds focus: tious, cious 

Book: 'Danny and the Bump a Lump'

Red group

Sounds focus: d, p, b

Book: Jam 

Writing 

In our English lessons this week the children have planned and written their own adventure story using the structure of the Lost and Found story. We have introduced our own animal and main characters. It has been lovely to see the vast improvement in the children's focus when writing sentences. 

Maths 

This week we started our work on Power Maths. Power Maths is a scheme of work we use all across the school and the children have amazed us with their concentration and focus when using the power maths books. This week we have focused on counting groups of objects and counting forwards and backwards to 10. Next week we will be counting one more and one less, comparing groups and numbers of objects. 

Science 

Thank you so much for completing your weather diaries over the half term holiday! We have used these in our science lesson this week to help us to make a block graph to show the weather during Autumn. 

Have a lovely and safe weekend. 

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