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April 2023

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  • Friday 28th April 2023

    Published 28/04/23, by Joshua Palmer

    Talk homework

    This week we have started our DT project in which we will be designing and making our own fruit kebabs. Talk to your grown-ups at home about which fruit you would like to use for your own kebab – think about the fruits that you will be able to thread onto your skewer!

    If you would like to challenge yourself, please practise counting forwards AND backwards in steps of 2, 5 and 10!

    Reading

    Thank you to everyone who has been logging their reading on our new Boom Reader app! Please ensure that you are reading EVERY DAY with your child and logging it on the Boom Reader app.

    Spellings

    The children will be tested on the ‘er’ sound family on Tuesday next week. Please continue to practise these over the weekend.

    The ‘er’ sound family
    /ir/ /er/ /ur/ /or/

    whirlpool

    turtle

    teacher

    smirked

    cooker

    hurtful

    germ

    word

    turned

    worming

    Handwriting

    Please follow the link below to access LetterJoin, a website which is really useful to support children’s letter formation and cursive handwriting. You can see how we use cursive script by following the tutorials and you can also download handwriting sheets to support your child’s handwriting practice at home.
    The login details are as follows:
    Username: bpa_3
    Password: Year 1

    Twig Science Reporter

    Please follow the link below for lots of interesting Science articles which can be linked to lots of areas of our science learning. Some of our talk homework after Easter may be linked to this website so please keep an eye out for future blogs.

    https://www.twigsciencereporter.com/

    This week in English we have been looking at the character of Funni in our Power of Reading Text, which we now know is called ‘The Secret Sky Garden’. We have looked at emotions in detail and described how Funni feels about the different settings within the story.

    In Maths, we have been learning to count in steps of 2, 5 and 10. We have looked at ‘groups of’ using models and images to support our understanding, for example 4 groups of 2 is 2, 4, 6, 8! The children enjoyed lots of counting games and their next steps are to be confidently counting both forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s.

    In Geography, the children learned about the different types of farms that we have within our locality. We talked about what is produced on these farms and the children then went on to design their own farm, explaining why they had chosen this type of farm.

    We are continuing to learn new phonic sounds, but are revising the sounds we have learned on a daily basis – if you would like to practise any phonics at home, please have a look at the websites below, which are great fun for the children and will support them in recalling the sounds we have been learning at school, as well as practise their segmenting and blending skills.

    https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

    https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-5

    The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year 1 Teachers: year1@buckdenacademy.org.

    Best wishes and have a lovely weekend.
    The Year 1 Team

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  • Friday 21st April 2023

    Published 21/04/23, by Joshua Palmer

    Talk homework

    This week we have started our new Science topic on Plants and Trees. Talk to your adults about the different types of plants and trees that you know. Can you remember what plants need to grow?

    Reading

    Thank you to everyone who has been logging their reading on our new Boom Reader app! Please ensure that you are reading EVERY DAY with your child and logging it on the Boom Reader app.

    Spellings

    The children will be tested on their phonic sounds ‘oy’ and ‘oi’ on Monday. Please continue to practise them over the weekend.

    enjoy, boys, destroy, joyful, cowboy, noise, oil, avoid, boiling, joined.

    Handwriting

    Please follow the link below to access LetterJoin, a website which is really useful to support children’s letter formation and cursive handwriting. You can see how we use cursive script by following the tutorials and you can also download handwriting sheets to support your child’s handwriting practice at home.
    The login details are as follows:
    Username: bpa_3
    Password: Year 1

    Twig Science Reporter

    Please follow the link below for lots of interesting Science articles which can be linked to lots of areas of our science learning. Some of our talk homework after Easter may be linked to this website so please keep an eye out for future blogs.

    https://www.twigsciencereporter.com/

    This week we are so impressed with the children who have come back from the Easter break with a fantastic attitude towards their learning!
    In English we have started a new Power of Reading book (the name is yet to be revealed), and the children have been discussing the problem of littering in our local area and the impact it can have on wildlife. As a class, we wrote a letter to Mrs Anderson who is in charge of our eco-committee, to inform her of the problem and to try and persuade her to help us do something about it!

    In Maths, we have been learning about capacity and volume. We have compared a range of different containers and thought about which ones have the biggest capacity, and which ones have the smallest capacity. We introduced the term ‘volume’ and will be looking at this in more depth on Monday!

    In History we have started looking at our new Sustainable Development Goal, No Hunger, by looking at farming through the ages. We have begun to look at how farming has changed since the Tudor era, and compared it with the Victorian Period and how farming has developed up until now!

    We are continuing to learn new phonic sounds, but are revising the sounds we have learned on a daily basis – if you would like to practise any phonics at home, please have a look at the websites below, which are great fun for the children and will support them in recalling the sounds we have been learning at school, as well as practise their segmenting and blending skills.

    https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

    https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-5

    The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year 1 Teachers: year1@buckdenacademy.org.

    Best wishes and have a lovely weekend.
    The Year 1 Team

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