Year 1 Friday Blog - 1.11.24
Date: 23rd Oct 2024 @ 10:41am
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Dear parents,
Welcome back to the Year 1 Friday blog!
I hope you have all had a restful half term break.
Each week you will continue to find out what we have been doing in class, our weekly spellings, reminders and lots more!
Every Friday, the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework. Moving to online homework has allowed us to become a more eco friendly school.
Reading
Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Question prompts are provided within reading books, coloured book marks and reading records. Asking questions improves key comprehension skills. If your child is struggling to read a word, encourage them to use their phonics fingers to segment and sound it out. Can they spot any digraphs? (2 letters, 1 sound). Once they have segmented the word, ask them to blend it together.
Please note that reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and two books will be given to each child to read for the week . Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. Thank you in advance.
Phonics & Spellings
Everyone has been working super hard on their spellings and I would love to see how you learn your spellings at home. Please share any work / pictures / games the children do at home to practise their spellings. Emails can be sent to [email protected] |
Please find below the spelling list for this week. An overview of the spellings for this half term can be found on our class page.
The spellings are linked to our phonics programme, Little Wandle. Please recap the graphemes, spellings and tricky words with the children. The children will have a spelling quiz each Thursday. They will not be asked to write the tricky words as these are used throughout our writing in the week.
Spellings can be practised in lots of different ways, an overview of some strategies has been shared on the blog. For additional practice, in the files to download section of our class page, there are example sentences for you to read and your child to write down. Remind them to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Our learning this week...
Multi Faith Week
In school this week we have been learning and celebrating Multi Faith week. Year 2 - 6 have been learning about different religions. In Year 1 we have been looking at Christianity around the world.
To start our week, we reminded ourselves about Christianity. What is our special book? Where do we worship? Do we have special symbols?
We then looked at different churches around the world and found out that there are Christians in every continent.
To finish the week, we set up own display in the hall, before exploring the displays from each class.
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Show and Tell
To help the children with the transition to Year 1 and to provide them with time to develop their communicaiton skills, show and tell will now happen on a Friday. Please encourage the children to bring things in that are related to our learning.
Have a fantastic weekend.
The Year 1 team
