Reading

This will be a little different this week. Due to us having Arts Week this week, we will not be able to fit in our afternoon reading sessions on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. This means that it is even more important that you read every day at home please. The new books will come home as normal on Wednesday, however, this will be the first time the children will have read them. Please have a look inside the back cover to find comprehension and fluency pointers which can help when you are reading with your child. The children are all doing so well with their reading so we really want to keep the momentum going. Thanks so much for all your support!

We will still visit the library on Tuesday and Thursday as normal.

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.

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.

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 repeat some of these words as we get towards the end of Year 1.

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 (tested on Friday 9th June):

love

one

Maths

This week we moved onto recognizing and finding a quarter of a shape or object and are just about to move on to finding a quarter of a quantity. We use the terminology ‘four equal parts’ to explain the concept of a quarter to the children. I’ve popped a practice sheet in the children’s book bags for them to have a go at at home.

Here is the video to support this weeks learning: