Dear Year
One Parents,
I hope you
have had a wonderful long weekend and you are well rested ready to take on the
rest of the week!
This week,
there will be sight words coming home for the children to learn. This is very
exciting for our year one children, as we have been participating in a variety
of sight word activities over the last few weeks. The focus of sight words is for
children to be able to recognise the words quickly and effectively without
having to sound them out.
I’m aware
that sight words were sent home last year in Pre-Primary and I encourage you to
support your child as they continue to consolidate words they know and practise
the words they have more difficulty with.
The aim of
the sight word rings are for your child to practise reading them every night in
conjunction with their reading books as a way to build up their vocabulary and
easily recognise the words in the books they are reading. It is important to
remember that children do not learn new words be being exposed to them only
once, repetition is the key to sight word acquisition.
The
children will be tested every few weeks on their sight words and they will be
moved onto the next list of 25 if they have mastered all of the words on their
ring.
If you have
any questions, please email me.
Have a
great week!
Miss Prowse
