Maths

We are continuing with our place value unit and the children are making good progress. We have been using the dienes blocks a lot this week to show how two digit numbers are made up of tens and ones. Some children are muddling their tens and ones up, for example identifying 78 instead of 87 or 56 instead of 65 etc. Please continue to practice counting with your child at home. If they are secure with counting to 100, then start counting down from 100-0. This will really help their confidence in lessons.

There is a 100 square homework in book bags this week. Please keep this one at home for the children to use when they are practicing.

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

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

Mrs Puddicks group:

Mrs Puddick’s group have been busy learning how to read words ending in ‘ed’, such as cloaked, sparked, scooped, croaked and splashed.

They have also continued to recap on all the phase 3 graphemes they have learnt so far.

Emily E’s group:

‘su’ ‘si’ (zh) as in treasure and vision
‘dge’ (j) as in bridge and fudge
‘y’ (i) as in crystal and pyramid
‘ge’ (j) as in large and cage

Spellings

Now that we’re heading into the last few weeks of term, we are revisiting the words which the children find the most tricky from the Year 1 Common Exception Words. These are words which the children are expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 1.

This weeks words are…

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