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Your child in Year 1
Independent childrenComing into the classroom
Blue folders in drawers (keyrings)
Snack and water bottles in trays
Reading books to be changed
Homework, number books and spelling books
Blue home/school communication diaries ~ notes
Clubs
Important letters
Belongings named
A Weekly TimetablePE ~ Monday and Wednesday (clothes)
Spellings ~ books due in on a Tuesday and new focus phoneme given out by Wednesday.
Homework ~ due in by Thursday each week and new homework given out on a Friday (practical, talking, recording)
Number books ~ tested weekly
Reading books can be changed 2-3 times weekly (children are starting to do this themselves)
Books kept in blue bags everyday.
Blue Communication Diaries
We will update the diaries every Friday with information for the following week.
Please try and check daily as we will use this book to communicate with you.
Similarly, if you have a message please write it in the book and ask your child to put it on the teachers chair in the morning.
Please sign these diaries once you have read them.
Number Books / Bonds
Why do them?
How often?
Number bond diary ~ use it to let us know how your child is getting on at home with number bonds
Weekly tests
Spellings
Spellings
• We will not send home a list of words
• Children will be tested on applying their knowledge of the weekly phonemes alongside previously learned phonemes
• They will learn the new phonemes during their phonic lessons that week
Spellings
ReadingChildren are now changing their own books.
If books need changing please comment and sign in the reading record.
Remind your child in the morning. They will then change as part of their early morning routine and after this put in the reading basket.
If your child is forgetting, please pop a note in the blue communication diary and we will remind them in school.
Books should be changed at least once a week if not more.
Reading Strategies
* Make reading fun e.g. cushions, bedtime stories, taking turns, family story time
* Short bursts of reading (a few pages at a time)
* Little and often
* Encourage children to read the story more than once before changing and this will increase their fluency, confidence and enjoyment of reading.
Reading Strategies
Stuck on a word
* Sound talk words then blend (c-l-u-ck)
* Read on to the end of the sentence
* Use picture clues
* Recognising key words
Comprehension
* Talk about the story, characters, language
* Ask why and how questions
Words In A Bag
~ High Frequency Words (common words that your child will need to read and spell)
~ your child will come home with a bag of words to learn. Inside this bag will be a brown envelope. Inside this envelope are ‘words I know’ (these will have 3 from school) Please continue to practice these periodically.
~ outside of the brown bag are words to practice regularly with your child.
Pack
If you have not already, please sign and help yourself to both packs.
~ PowerPoint
~ useful resources when working with your child
Helping in SchoolParents and/or grandparents
Reading, words in a bag, visits, computer, trips, nativity, sewing
It is school policy for helpers who come in on a regular basis not to work with their child.
Parents are used across the year group for readers, words in a bag and numbers.
This is usually in an area outside of the classroom which is quieter.
Every little helps!
PhonicsImportant for spelling, writing and reading.
Spelling phonemes will link to the phonemes they are learning that week.
Words are usually decodable wish w-i-sh
stain s-t-ai-n
PhonicsSome of the lingo you may be hearing at home
Phoneme ~ the sound
Grapheme ~ how written
Diagraph ~ a phoneme made up of 2 letters (ai)
Trigraph ~ a phoneme made up of 3 letters (igh)
Phoneme buttons ~ marking the number of phonemes in a word (this can help with spelling)
tin with rain night liquid
PhonicsWe do ask children to read words that are not real but are made up from learned phonemes.
This helps test their recognition of these phonemes and check they are decoding words properly.
pog tomp bock
Phonic GamesWe would like to invite you to play some of the games that we ask your children to play to support them in their phonics
Buried Treasure
Phoneme Buttons on words
Phoneme Frames
Matching words / sentences to pictures