Topic
In our topic we have been learning about The Great Fire of London and the children are very keen on this interactive game that talks them through the events in chronological order. I promised I would let you know the website so they can play at home:
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.
Access Lexia here 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/Phonics
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.
Phonics
No new sounds have been introduced this week as we are revisiting sounds we have previously learnt in preparation for assessments next week.
Spellings
Next week, we will not do a spelling test as the children are out of class on Thursday morning (in the hall) and not in school on Friday. Please continue to practice the Year 1 common exception words which were sent home at the beginning of the year. These are readily available online (just Google ‘Year 1 common exception words’).
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 practice 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 practicing 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.
Maths
Next week we are moving onto our length and height unit. The children will be measuring using cm’s. Any practice of this at home would be really beneficial to them and would help in their classroom learning.
Please also keep practicing the numbers from 0-50. Some children are still a little unsure on these and they would benefit from a little more time to master them.
Many thanks
Year 1 Team