Year 1 Weekly Update – 17/12/21

Writing: Let’s explore the Dinosaur Planet! Watch out everyone – the dinosaurs are on the prowl. They’re rampaging across the dusty earth, swishing their enormous tails and baring their fearsome teeth. We will begin to dig deep and discover dazzling dinosaur facts.

Which is your favourite dinosaur?

The Tyrannosaurus, the Brachiosaurus or the Micropachycephalosaurus? Doyouthinkhesawus? Yes, he did. Run!

Phonics: We will have a ‘Grow the code week’ our first week back, revisiting and reviewing the following sounds:

/igh/ – ie  i  i_e

/ai/ – ay  a  a_e

/oa/ – oa  o  o_e

/ee/ – e  ie  e_e  ea

/oo/ /yoo/ – ew  u_e  u  ue

Tricky words: house, mouse, water, want, they, pure, sure, could, would, should, our, some, come, love, your, people, their, oh, Mr, Mrs, Ms, ask, were, there, little, here, today, one, their, when, what, here.

​​What can I do at home? 10 minutes daily reading! ​Point out the digraphs and trigraphs in your home-school (decodable) books. Make lists of words containing the split digraphs so your child can identify patterns.

Please encourage your child to read without having to segment every sound in every word. Rather than segment aloud, they can use their fingers to do this, e.g. t-r-ee, l-o-s-t…