Writing

In bookbags today, the children will all have their story map for their innovated Little Charlie story. They have all thought of new characters and settings and will be writing the story next week in school. Please can you take some time over the weekend to practice ‘reading’ their stories with them. It will really help them when they come to writing it on Monday! Thank you.

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/Phonics

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.

This week in phonics we have learned the following sounds:

Miss Curtis & Miss England’s Group:

Alternate ways of making the ‘u’ sound: ‘o-e’ as in some and come, ‘o’ as in son and won, and ‘ou’ as in touch and young.

‘se’ making the ‘z’ sound, as in cheese, noise and praise.

‘se’ and ‘ce’ making the ‘s’ sound, as in dance, fence, horse and purse.

‘ey’ making the ‘ee’ sound, as in donkey, monkey and honey.

 Mrs Puddick’s group:

‘air’ as in chair, hair and fair.

‘er’ as in bigger, boxer, runner.

They have also been focusing on reading longer words with double consonants such as ladder, summer, ribbon, kitten and carrot.

Mrs Jones’ group

They have been re-capping their Phase 3 phonemes, identifying the digraphs in words and practicing chunking up longer words to make them easier to read.

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 practice 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 practicing 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…

put

push

Maths

We have just come to the end of our Place Value within 20 unit and are now ready to move on the learning about addition and subtraction within 20. This will lead to children to make connections between number bonds to ten and 20, eg 6+4=10 and 16+4=20, 8+2=10 and 18+2=20 etc.