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

Miss Curtis and Miss England’s group:

We have been recapping and focusing on the following sounds this week:

ue (oo) as in blue and rescue
ew  (oo) as in chew and new
u-e (oo) as in rude and cute
aw (or) as in claw and saw

Mrs Puddick’s group

This week the children have learned the following tricky words were, here, little and says.

They have also been reading CCVCC (consonant, consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant) words, such as:

squelch, strong, strap, sprint and strict

They have been recapping all of the Phase 3 phonemes they have learned so far.

Mrs Jones’ group

The children have been focusing on the following digraphs:

‘ea’ (e) as in head, bread, instead

‘wh’ as in white, which, when

They children have been revisiting the phase 5 phonemes taught so far.

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…

there

where

Maths

This week we have covered a lot! We’ve been counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and have now started learning about even and uneven groups. There will be a homework sheet in the children’s book bags on Friday relating to this. They are likely to need help with this, but it should only take about 10mins to complete. Please continue to practice the counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s too. It really does make a huge difference to them in school. Next week we will be applying this knowledge when we start counting groups of objects in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s using arrays. Thank you for all the support with the children’s learning at home – we really appreciate it.