Maths
In the final half term of the year, we will be learning about money and time. This is always an area that the children find tricky. So, we need your help with a couple of things please….
- Over the next half term and into the summer holidays (these things take time!) please can we ask that the children are given the opportunity to got to a shop and spend some real coins so that they receive change. We realise that most people now ‘blip’ payments on their phones/cards so some children are not familiar with using money in a real world situation. The children would really benefit from being able to explore the different coins and their values. Please feel free to send in pics of them doing their ‘shopping’ so that we can talk about it in school.
- By the end of Year 1, children are expected to be able to read half past and o’clock times on an analogue clock. The children pick up o’ clock times very quickly, but half past is often something they find difficult. So again, if you have any analogue clocks at home, please practice this with them. Most children’s understanding of time at this age consists of ‘playtime’, ‘lunchtime’ and ‘bedtime’ so any help at home would be brilliant!
Thank you so much for your support with the children’s learning at home! It makes a huge difference.
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
All groups have been recapping on previously learnt digraphs this week in preparation for the phonics screening next month.
Spellings
You will notice that we are now beginning to repeat some of the spelling words from earlier in the year.
Some children will now be given separate spellings which will be stapled into their reading records on a Friday. They will then be ‘tested’ on these the following Friday as usual. If your child comes home with spellings stabled into their reading record, please ignore the ones below.
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.
This weeks words are…to be ‘tested’ on Friday 7th June
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