Reading
On Wednesday your child bought home their reading book. This the book that we have 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. It will then be sent home on Wednesday for you to read and follow up at home. Your child has also started to bring 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.
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 your child has 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. It is very likely that your child already knows these words as they are taught in reception.
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. We will start with 2 familiar words from reception whilst we are getting the children used to their new routine.
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 accurately counting amounts from larger groups. Your child has been focusing on numbers to 10, and we have started to look at the use of a ‘tens’ frame and different representations of numbers. You can see in the picture below that I have recorded some of the children’s journal ideas when looking at how many ways we can show 5.
Please support at home this week by looking at how many ways you can show 10. Support your child at home to make a ’10’ poster with lots of different representations of 10 on it. This could be the numeral ’10’, they might draw 10 of their favourite things, maybe 10 sweets or 10 toys. Can they draw number block 10? Perhaps they know some different ways to make 10, for example 5+5=10. Their poster should be full of lots and lots of different ways to represent the number 10. This will support their ability to think about and draw different representations of the same number.
We will share our posters during our class assemblies on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thanks for your support