STARLINGS WB 18.10.21

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 4:22pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Starlings Class and I can’t quite believe his is the last week of the first half term.  ?.

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 15.10.2021 

 

The jar of oil 

A second jar of oil 

Our invisible planet 

 

New sounds: 

• ear – hear with your ear
• ure– sure it’s pure 
• tion– pay attention, it’s a celebration 
• tious– scrumptious delicious  

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again 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 15.10.2021 

Wailing Winny’s car boot sale 

Dad makes a mistake  

Amazing caves  

New sounds: 

• ear – hear with your ear
• ure – sure it’s pure
• tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration
• tious – scrumptious delicious 

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again 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 15.10.21 

The gingerbread Man 

A hungry Fox 

Grab a snack 

New sounds: 

• tious–scrumptious and delicious 
• ck- tick tock
• au- Paul the astronaut
• e-e Go Pete and Steve!
• kn- Knockknock who’s there? 

 

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 continuing to look at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our green words by saying in our head; Special friends, Fred talk read the word. How many green words can you speed read now? 

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 15.10.21 

My sort of horse 

Born on a farm 

New sounds: 

• ire – firefire! 
• ure– sure it’s pure 
• tion– pay attention, it’s a celebration! 
• tious/cious– Scrumptious delicious 

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

Reading focus: Do we understand what we have just read? Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the books to check your understanding. 

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 15.10.21 

Sanjay stays in bed 

My holiday 

new sounds 

• ire – fire, fire
• are – care and share
• ure- sure it's pure

 

 

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

 

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 15.10.21 

 

The web 

Leggy  

 

Practise our sounds of the week: 

• ar– start the car 
• or – shut the door 
• air – That's not fair
• ir– whirl and twirl 

 

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! How many red words can you read in 30 seconds? Please use the red words written in the front of ‘The Web’ to play this game. You may end up reading the same word several times ?. 

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Judge 15.10.21 

Let’s sing 

The band  

 

Practise our sounds of the week: 

• ar– start the car 
• or – shut the door 
• air – That's not fair
• ir– whirl and twirl 

 

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! How many red words can you read in 30 seconds? Please use the red words written in the front of ‘Let’s sing’ to play this game. You may end up reading the same word several times ?.  

 

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 15.10.21 

Ditty sheets 10 and 11 

New sounds:  

• sh
• r
• j
• v

Reading focus: Does the word I am saying fit with the sentence? When blending a word, think about the words you have already said in the sentence and think whether it makes sense. 

 

 

 

 

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 Thursday 21st October are

sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth

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.