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

All the adults who support our class with their reading have been really impressed with the children’s enthusiasm in their reading sessions this week. The children are applying themselves brilliantly and making great progress as a result. Well done everyone.

I thought it might be helpful to make you aware of the new graphemes we have introduced this week. Up until now, we have been recapping sounds which were taught in Reception. This week we have introduced these alternate sounds:

‘ay’ as in play or say

‘ou’ as in cloud or about 

‘oy’ as in toy or boy

‘ea’ as in sea or read

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..

we

go

Maths

In maths this week we have been finding numbers one less than, and one more than any number between 1 and 9. We have been using our journals to demonstrate our own understanding of the concepts and have been practicing how to verbalise our ideas. We have been using word problems such as ‘There were 7 frogs in the pond. 1 jumped out.’ This would be a great little activity to practice at home with your child. See if they can come up with a word problem of their own and show you how they would journal it.

Next week we are going to move on to ordering and comparing numbers within 10.

Please have a look at this video with your child to support their learning in school.

Many thanks

Miss England