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 week we will go back to the 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 ‘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..
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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, focusing specifically on number bonds. Number bonds are two numbers (parts) that add together to make the whole. For example 2 + 3 is a number bond to 5. We have been looking at how to use part whole models to represent this and talking about the ‘parts’. It is really important to understand that the ‘parts’ are the smallest numbers and they add together to make the ‘whole’ which is the greatest number. When we add our answer, ours whole number is always greater.
This link below explores this concept in more detail. We have used these resources in school and it would be a great help to watch this short video at home which reinforces the learning in class.
We will be continuing to apply our understanding of number bonds as we move into next week. One of the key maths objectives for children in Year 1 is to become confident and fluent with their numbers bonds to 10. You can support by exploring this at home together. This will link to next weeks home learning activity.
Thank you for your continued support at home