Lexia

Thanks again for the continued effort on Lexia with children at home. They are so excited when they receive their certificates in assembly and we can see the difference it makes to 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.

Reading

Seeing as we’re rapidly heading towards the end of term, we are asking that all library books are returned by Thursday 13th July so that we can check them all off. The children will still visit the library in the final week of term, but will not bring a book home with them.

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.

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 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

our

friend

Maths

Next week, we will be starting our unit of work about money. This always proves to be a tricky unit as the children rarely see money being used in everyday life.  As a little homework this week, please could you find an opportunity to allow your child to pay for something in a shop where they will receive some change? If you could then talk about the different coins they have used and help them name them and their value, that would really help us next week in the classroom. Thanks in advance.

Here is the video to support the classroom learning: