Maths

We have now started our new unit about money.

Homework this week is to go shopping (with coins preferably, and definitely not a bank card or phone!). The children are learning about the different values of coins and notes. It would be really helpful for them to get as much real life experience of this as possible. I know some people have already been doing this, but if we could have another go as a refresher, that would be amazing.

Thanks in advance.

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 continued 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:

From now on, we will be recapping on the phase 5 sounds we have learnt this year. We have now covered all the sounds in the Little Wandle scheme, so we are just focusing on any which are proving tricky to remember.

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…

with

come