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.
We will be assessing the childrens phonics at the end of this term to see if they are ready to move onto the next set of books.
Spellings
This week your child has different spellings to learn at home. These words are taken from the Year 1 National Curriculum and 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 there are lots of words that your child will already know from reception. Please use this week to practise 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..
said says
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 comparing numbers using greater than, less than and equal too. It is really important that we do not use the word ‘bigger’ when we are comparing numbers. We have been trying really hard in class to use the words ‘greater’ and ‘more’… but it has been tricky!
You can support at home by watching the Numberblocks video below. In the video you will see the symbols
< less than > greater than = equal too
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0blsqtz/numberblocks-series-3-blockzilla
We have been working really hard this week to recognise, read and use these symbols. For example….
3 < 5 says three is less than five
6 > 0 says six is greater than zero
4 = 4 says four is equal to four
Below is a short video from White Rose maths which we use in school. Watch it together looking at the symbols which are being modelled and explained. You do not need to record anything. Watching it and seeing the symbols being linked with the images and the vocabualrly will help to further consolidate what we have been looking at in class.