Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Starlings WB 27.09.21
Date: 22nd Sep 2021 @ 8:36pm
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. We have been super historians this week when we used our skills and knowledge to place a range of bikes in chronological order.
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
In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our text ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers and we will be discussing how the characters in the book are feeling at different points in the story.
Maths
Next week we will be exploring ordinal numbers before progressing to the composition of numbers 0 to 5. We will be participating in lots of practical activities and using our maths resources to support our learning.
RWI
Blue Group - Miss Gillam 24.9.2021
Hairy Fairy
A job for Hairy Fairy
It’s so hairy
New sounds:
- o-e Phone home
- u-e Huge brute
- aw Yawn at dawn
- are care and share
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?
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.
Grey Group – Miss Gillam 24.9.2021
I dare you
Men on the moon
Nancy Roman’s space telescope
New sounds:
- o-e Phone home
- u-e Huge brute
- aw Yawn at dawn
- are care and share
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?
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.
Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 24.09.21
Tom Thumb
Stuck in fog
Bugs
New sounds:
I-e nice smile
- o-e- phone home
- aw– yawn at dawn
- are-care and share
ur – nurse with a purse
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader. To read and notice punctuation to help with our story telling voice.
Orange Group – Mrs Southern 24.09.21
Follow me
Can you see me?
New sounds:
- o-e phone home
- u-e huge brute
- aw yawn at dawn
- are care and share
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Attempting to ‘Fred in our head’ more when reading a story.
Pink Group – Mrs Esling 24.09.2021
In the sun
Rags
New sounds:
- o-e Phone home
- u-e huge brute
- aw Yawn at dawn
- are care and share
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?
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 24.09.21
The Spell
A Witch’s Lunch
New sounds:
- oo– poo at the zoo
- oo– look at a book
- ar– start the car
- or – shut the door
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader. To read and notice punctuation to help with our story telling voice.
Red Group – Mrs Judge
Cat in a Pot
The Bug
New sounds:
- qu– qu, qu, queen
- ng – a thing on a string
- nk– I think I stink
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader.
Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 24.09.21
Ditty sheets 1,2,3 and 4
New sounds:
- i
- n
- p
- g
- o
Reading focus: Fred talking a little faster so that words can be blended easier.
Homework
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 from the previous week's page.
This weeks spellings to be quizzed on Friday 1st October are
one two three four five
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.