This week in phonics we are comparing the long /a/ sounds. We have also been practising spelling words form the red word list.

In Shared Reading we are learning to read and write words ending in the suffixes -ness and -ing. We are also learning to write sentences using the subordinating conjunction ‘when’.

You can access our Shared Reading book here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KD1cTVTUQWREYGZ4Z9DfyEWJDFi7PoKO/view?usp=sharing

Please find this week’s spellings below. We will check these spellings on Monday 12th June.

Thank you to everyone who has been taking the time to practise spellings at home. It is really making a difference to children’s writing. To be on track at the end of year 1 children need to be spelling many words accurately.

Today we have sent home our new set of expedition spellings. These will be tested after the half term break. In the meantime please regularly practise spelling words from the red word list, starting with the easiest words that the children learned to read in reception and building up to spelling the words we have learned to read in Year 1.

Children will be tested on their red word spelling after half term and we will be looking for children to be spelling an increasing number of words correctly ready for entering Year 2.

Again thank you for your support. It is so lovely to see the children coming to school excited to show off their learning and showing much more confidence and motivation in their writing lessons. Keep it up Year 1, we are very proud of you!

This week we will be reviewing our progress so far on our school reading challenge. Each classroom has a display where children can track their progress towards their next milestone. Children also have a 100 square in their reading diaries so that you can follow along with their progress at home. Staff will cross out a number each time a child has read at home.

Children can read their reading books, books from home, comics, magazines or phonics homework sheets. Any reading is great reading! Each time your child reads at home this will count as 1 read. Please write each read in your child’s reading diary so staff can check off the numbers and track children’s progress.

Our current Leader in KS1 leader has read over 170 times this school year!!!

Here are the milestones your child is aiming for and our new certificates for each milestone:

I wonder if anyone will receive the Platinum award by the end of the school year?

This week we are learning:

This week’s Homework:

The children in Year 1 have been continuing to work hard on their phonics knowledge this term. In our phonics lesson each day we practice reading and writing words and sentences using our phonics knowledge. We also practise our new skills through our Shared Reading sessions.

Here are the graphemes we have been learning:

We have noticed lots of improvement in the children’s confidence to read with many children now reading fluently and with great expression. Here are the Shared Reading books we have been reading if you would like to have a go at home:

Butterflies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xg6oC2CBBaquWlyWJfxvYEd2_v66xu2f/view?usp=sharing

Copies of our Weekly Phonics Homework can be found below:

ire: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lZXU9jS1HttFrEkeaRIjwp4zHZQn_PK/view?usp=sharing

are: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mUyk13wrm22p-WjXAKm1ztGOgIf9W7Sp/view?usp=sharing

tch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pIHmlJjB10hkhs11w_ei1S3NL9qWMHR0/view?usp=sharing

The children in Year 1 will be doing their spellings check tomorrow.