Week 2
Dear Parents
We have had a jam packed week in Year 1C!!! Just a few reminders for the week coming.
Just a friendly reminder that homework is due tomorrow - please bring them to school to help us review and set up for next fortnight. If you have any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to contact me. Also a request that you remember to complete the reading log each night after your child has read aloud for ten minutes to help us know whether to change books or not and how your child is progessing with their nightly reading. Spelling and fluency grids (these will look a little different to last term now we have begun the InitiaLit1 program but remain the same process as last term being a timed read with accuracy and time recorded) will continue to be glued into your child's scrapbook each fortnight. These words are for your child to practise reading and spelling on a piece of paper and they align with the phonics/spelling/reading teaching content of our InitiaLit1 program for the next fortnight.
Reading at home We are noticing that fluency growth (increasing their reading words per minute) remains difficult for some students and encourage them to re-read the text in their home reader a second time after each double page spread to help work on increasing their reading speed as well as extra work on the words on the fluency grid as research has shown that this is an influential part of reading growth and literacy success. This is a method we are using during daily guided reading and small group reading sessions with our decodable readers and InitiaLit Sounds and Words books. We encourage students to sound out loud unknownn words first (no random guessing) then practise joining the sounds together faster each sub-sequential read to develop fluency rather than just guessing unknown longer words, working on maintaining accuracy as well as speed.
Spelling focus long a and long e graphemes - ai and ay, ea and ee. As a general pattern ai is used when we hear the long a sound in the middle of a word and ay is used at the end of a word or the first syllable. Of course with English, this is not necessarily a rule that is always followed but knowing this can help your child identify which grapeme - ai or ay is used when spelling. We will learn about the a-e long vowel grapheme (also sometimes known as magic e) later in the term but feel free to acknowledge and show your child that there are also other ways we can write the long a sound in words such as grape, late, snake. Please note that ea and ee doesn't have a rule as such, and students just need to learn which grapheme to use for which word and if it looks right. Bonus fun fact - ea/ee are graphemes often used in homophones which are words that sound the same and have different meanings to help us identify which word we mean eg. meet/meat, beech, beach, sea/see.
Our spelling tests and daily spelling lessons have identified some having trouble spelling their tricky word so if you could give these particular words (and any previous tricky words from earlier homework spelling lists that your child had trouble with) a little extra practise each night, they will experience even more success in their everyday writing at school and weekly spelling tests results.
Merit Award
Congratulations to Wyatt who was the Week 1 Merit Award Winner!!!
You will also notice that your children may be coming home with a mystery student certificate. Every Day I choose a mystery student. I tell the children that in order for the mystery student to receive a certificate at the end of the day they have to listen to instructions, try their best, sit on the mat whole body listening, put their hand up, be loving and kind towards others and show the OLC school values! I then at the end of the day reveal the mystery student and if they have shown beautiful behaviour during the day they get a certificate! Well done to those children who already have one :)
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