Firstly, thank you for all the support with your child’s learning. We are very impressed with the children’s attitude and enthusiasm to continuing and extending their learning at home.
As you will be aware, Lexia is a reading and phonics based online program and, in Year 1, we have been using this app on a regular basis. Once your child has received their level 5 certificate, they no longer need to work on this at home as they have completed the Year 1 program of learning.
We’ve just signed up to Numbots and your child will have brought their login details home on Thursday. This is a great app and website for practising addition and subtraction facts (our current maths learning) and it’s great to see so many of the children have already accessed this resource. There are 15 different games, each with a different focus. Topics covered include doubles and number bonds to 10, 20 and 100.
Another great maths resource is Hit the Button. Select number bonds (to 10) when using this.
PhonicsPlay is a great website that we often use in our daily phonics lessons. In each game, you can select the phase of phonics and, more specifically, which letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) to focus on. The games are a fun way to practise reading sounds, real words, alien words and sentences. Login details are Sphere (user name) and Spher3 (password). Check out the Resources page. In class, we have recently reviewed Phase 3 and we are now working on Phase 4 so please select these when using this at home.
As with all of these resources, little and often is the best way to use these at home.
In addition, our Home learning page provides an overview of our learning in class for the week. Finally, it’s definitely also worth checking out our Help your child and Calculations and times tables pages which both contain a range of ideas, links and activities – even just a bit of regular practice of handwriting can make loads of difference!
If you have any questions or queries about the above resources, please contact us by email (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org).