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.
Spellings
This weeks words are 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 will continue to learn these words in Year 1 using our spelling list to support when writing.
This weeks words are..
his has
A copy of the Year 1 National Curriculum ‘common exception’ words been sent home. You can also access the list in the link below.
Maths
This week we have been looking at addition as ‘adding more’. We have used a number line to support our learning, tens frames, counters and other manipulatives.
The key to this weeks learning is that when adding, the answer will be ‘greater’ and you are adding more. We have started to look at addition word problems and think about how to solve them. The short video below matches the learning from lessons this week. Please watch it together at home – it will help to consolidate key learning. You can also explore word problems at home about more with little or no resources. For example… Charlie has 2 blocks. He gets 2 more. How many does he have altogether. The key vocabulary here is – more and altogether.
Thanks for your continued support at home