The children in Year 1 have had another fantastic week of learning. It is wonderful to see them becoming more resilient each day. Please find attached the home learning which includes some fun phonics sounds to practise, mental maths to help reflect on this weeks learning and an interesting project for your child to complete as the half term goes on. 

Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing all of the happy faces again on Monday!

The Year 1 Team

We have had a super start to Year 1. We have particularly enjoyed learning about our topic of Amazing Animals. We started by thinking of everything we already know about animals. We could name places animals lived, what they could do as well as a large variety of animals.

In maths, we managed to use animals to help us with our learning of ordinal numbers by lining animals up and talking about which position they were in the line.

In English, we have been looking at a book called ‘Plenty of love to go round’ by Emma Chichester Clark and we have enjoyed predicting what will happen with the characters Binky and Plum.

We are really looking forward to learning more about animals next week!

Become a Reading Role Model

Whether you enjoy relaxing with a magazine or planning your next ‘Great British Bake Off’ dessert with your favorite recipe book, show your child that READING IS EVERYWHERE!

Reading aloud to your children shows them that reading is a pleasure, not a chore.  Older children can read to younger children too!

Make reading part of your bedtime routine. Making time to read alongside one another helps develop children’s reading stamina, interest and their vocabulary as you learn new words together.

Children will pick up on the new and exciting vocabulary they have heard in these stories and transfer this to their writing!

Chat, Play and Learn!

Promote a love of language by fully engaging in conversation with your child.

Modelling language as you play alongside your child is a great way to develop vocabulary and understanding.

Reading Expectations

From Nursery. Children embark on their phonics journey starting with Foundations for Phonics. In Reception, children will begin phase 2 phonics, where they will participate in a daily phonics lesson.

Children will also take part in 3x reading practice sessions at school. On the day of their third session, children will be assigned the e-book that they have been practising earlier in the week, at school.

This book has been carefully matched to your child’s current reading level. If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy – your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading. We ask that you practise the decodable (phonics) e-book with your child, a 2-3 times every week. This will be the same book that your child has been practising, with an adult at school.

To ensure children are keeping up, not catching up, we will planning additional opportunities for children to work with an adult to practise phonics and reading skills.

 Reading Expectations at home:

Þ Read a decodable phonics booked 2-3 times weekly with your child. You can log into the e-library or listen to your child read the paper-based phonics book.

Þ Read a range of genres to your child at home, as part of your daily routine. Record this in your child’s reading record.

Þ Share the Little Wandle home learning sheet with your child, to recap the sounds that we have been practising in school.

Þ Sign your child’s reading record when you have shared a story or listened to their reading.

We have been working hard on our changes topic and were excited to have some caterpillars move into our classroom! We watched them transform into chrysalises and then butterflies!  We have been writing all about caterpillars and butterflies and doing our best to improve our handwriting.  We decided to write about what we found out about butterflies and show Reception our wonderful writing.  We loved visiting Reception and they were very impressed!