Good evening everyone!
Today we finally sent home the home readers in Year One. Everyone was very excited to get started (as I’m sure you all are!). In year one students need to be reading aloud (or read to) for 10 to 15 minutes each night.
Your reading eggs login is on the front. Throughout the year I’ll assign little tasks for the students to complete. Reading eggs and reading eggspress are both available to your child. If you want some help/guidance over which your child should use please come and see me.
The sounds chart is helpful to practice tricky sound blends. These can be used for fun games at home “how many words can we think of with “Sh” like “shark”?” Or if you find a word in your reader that has tricky sounds break the word up and use the chart to figure it out. For example “throat” – “th like thumb” and “oa like in boat” – th-r-oa-t. If you know your little one needs help with these sounds going through the chart practicing saying the sounds is always helpful.
As discussed at the information night, comphrehension is SO important! These questions can help you when checking your child’s understanding and discussing what they read. Quite often just asking “who is in the story” and “what happened” is enough to start a good chat! There are fiction and non fiction suggestions in the folder.
The counting goals I have found are easiest to do when driving or when getting help around the house. Choose a target for a few days to work on. When driving you might say “start at 42 and count to 100” that is covering target A. Or count out your nutrigrain (I don’t know what everyone has for breakfast, I’m a week bix girl and this doesn’t quite work for me!) and when you get to 10 group it together and then say your total partitioned into tens and ones. “I had 32 nutrigrains 3 groups of ten and 2 ones” that is target L. These goals last the whole year, please don’t stress about getting through them all. If you need help with anything let me know.
These are some of our strategies when decoding the words when reading. A lot of these I will teach throughout the year. This term we focus on “cross checking” what we have read and “chunky monkey” to break up longer words we don’t know. These prompts can be useful to you as you hear your child read. For example if your child is trying to read circus but keeps saying the hard “c” sound like in cat, you could say “flip the sound” the hard “c” to the soft “c” that says “ssss”.
Here is an example of a completed homework sheet (student Erin was trying really hard!š) don’t feel like you need to write me a note each week, it’s there just in case.
Can I please ask that the folders are brought in for me to check on a Friday each week. You can change readers as often as you like I just like to check in to see that everyone is reading.
Finally, homework should never be a source of stress in the home. If you need any help with this please let me know.
Sorry this post is so late tonight! See you all tomorrow,
Mrs Preen x
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