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 on a normal week, however, this week was a little different due to the bank holiday. 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 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. 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.
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 in Year 1 we have started to learn about ‘1 less‘. We have been thinking about how 1 less is the previous number when we are counting in sequence. It is the number that comes ‘before’.
Please support at home using your number line (that came home) or objects that you have around the house. Start on a number and use the sentence
1 less than ___ is ___. For example 1 less than 4 is 3. It is really important to practise the vocabulary of one less and explore how the number is now ‘less than’ that the number that you started on. This will support us next week with our learning when we will be looking at comparing numbers looking at one more and one less than a given number at the same time.
Thanks for your support