Year 1 Home Learning
Writing with Year 1 and Reception Children
It has been lovely to see the children working so hard at home over the last few days and we are really pleased that they are enjoying the writing tasks. Please remember that they are very young and we do not expect their spelling to be perfect! Sound mats are attached to the tasks each day and it is really important that the children use them and try to sound out words for themselves. Inevitably, they will hear sounds in words that they do not yet know how to write and it is preferable that they have a go, even though the spelling may not be correct. For example, a Year 1 child might spell gingerbread phonetically and write ‘jinjrbred.’ That is what we might expect at this stage and it is more important that they have had a go themselves than that the spelling is correct. In reception, a child might not even hear all those sounds, perhaps just ‘jngrbd’ and that is fine too. We do appreciate that it is very difficult to replicate the writing process that takes place in school but we are truly very grateful for all your efforts!
Many thanks
Reception and Year 1 team.