Lexia

Some children will have a Lexia password and login Sellotaped on the inside of their blue reading record. This is a website designed to help with their reading.

The website to access this is https://www.lexiacore5.com/?SiteID=3740-7432-0654-5562 

Please encourage your child to login for a few minutes as often as possible. Ideally, each child would complete approximately 40mins a week. The children do login at school, but we are unable to provide them with the amount of time they really need to benefit fully from the program. Please record in their Reading Record when they have used it.

Thank you so much for your support with this. It can make a huge difference to your child’s confidence and ability in reading.

Reading

On Wednesday your child bought home their next reading book. This book has been read in school with them following the Little Wandle Scheme – it is directly matched to your child’s reading ability. We will read your child’s new Little Wandle book in school on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The book sent home on Wednesday is now for you to read and follow up at home.  Your child has also bought home a school library book of their choice – this is not matched to their reading ability and is therefore a book to share together.

We visit the library on Tuesdays and Thursdays where they can be changed.

Please record ALL reading in your child’s reading record so that we can see that reading, story sharing or other reading for pleasure has taken part every day at home.

Reading records and reading books are expected to be bought into school every day to be monitored and to record when your child has read in school.

Spellings

We are continuing to learn words taken from the Year 1 National Curriculum. These are ‘common exception’ words that your child is expected to be able to spell independently in their writing by the end of Year 1. You will notice that some of these words your child is familiar with from Reception. Please practise writing the words below together.

We will ‘test’ these spellings next Friday. The scores will be in your child’s reading record for you to see and to continue practising any words that they need further support with. We are starting to focus a lot more on these words when writing and will be using the Year 1 spelling list in all of our writing sessions.

This weeks words are..

our

friend

Maths

This week in maths we have moved on to working with numbers up to 50. Please practice counting from 0-50 with your child. When they become more confident, you can start going backwards from 50-0. There is a 100 square in their book bags today which they can use to help. Please ensure that they are looking at the numbers as they say them so that they become familiar with what the number looks like. Please don’t move on above 50 for the time being.

We have also been learning how to count in 10s. Again, we have only done this up to 50. The children are familiar with the vocabulary of ‘How many groups of 10 are there?’, ‘How many more’ etc.

This video will help them to cement their understanding.

Please take the time to watch this video and talk about it together.

Many thanks,

Miss England