New Year! New Challenges!

• Your children have settled well into the Year1 routine.• It is now time for two exciting new challenges in Reading and Maths for you to support your child with at home.• These challenges will speed up your child's progress with their learning.

Reading Challenge

• It starts on Monday 15th January 2018.• Each day that your child reads with you at home and you sign their reading journal they will get a stamp on a sticker card at school.• They will then collect special reading certificates and a gold medal when they finish the challenge of reading to you 30 times.• 10 stamps = bronze certificate• 20 stamps = silver certificate• 30 stamps = gold certificate and gold medal

Supporting your child at home • Special quiet time ­ • 10 minutes every day reading a book

You as a parent can make such a difference to your child's progress at school.

Number facts Challenge • It started this week.• Pupils have to learn all their number facts to 10 by heart, by the end of Year 1.• Each Monday in our Maths lesson we will learn about the number facts of the week. Their blue number book will be put in their reading folder. Please complete the sheet at home.• Please set aside a quiet time 3x a week to practise these facts with your child so they can tell you the answer straight away without using their fingers.• Each Friday morning there will be a test.• There are lots of free websites where pupils can practise these number facts (please see handout).

My number facts to 10 book

1  +  22  +  23  +  24  +  25  +  2

0 + 0 0

1 + 0 1

2 + 0 2

3 + 0 3

4 + 0 4

5 + 0 5

6 + 0 6

7 + 0 7

8 + 0 8

9 + 0 9

10 + 0 10

0 + 0 0

1 + 0 1

2 + 0

3 + 0

4 + 0

5 + 0

6 + 0

7 + 0

8 + 0

9 + 0

10 + 0

Adding 0 Fill in the answer

Test page

Test page

Homework

• Reading books and reading journal• Keyword sheet• Word list/bag• Spelling book ­ weekly test• Number facts book ­ weekly test

We would love it if you were able to come into school this term to read a fairy story to the children to link with our IPC theme of Fairytales.

Please let us know if you

are able to do this.