Lexia

Thank you all so much for the brilliant effort with Lexia at home! We can see the benefits in school – keep it up!

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.

The website to access this is:

https://www.lexiacore5.com/?SiteID=3740-7432-0654-5562

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.

Spellings

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 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 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..

your

they

Maths

We have been learning how to measure this week. To start with, the children were using cubes and paperclips to measure length but have all now moved on to measuring in centimeters. I’ve been really impressed with how carefully they have done this and they are able to accurately use cm rulers. It would be brilliant if they could keep practicing their new skills at home! I will pop some paper rulers in the book bags, but even better if they can use a real one. It doesn’t matter what the children are measuring, but please ensure that they are using the ruler correctly! Aim to measure at least 5 different objects (books, pencils, shoes, hairclips, toothbrush etc). I’m not expecting them to record their measurements, but please take time to help them to ensure accuracy. Many thanks.

Here is the video to go with this weeks learning.

Many thanks

Miss England