Talk homework

Talk to your adult about the different things we have been learning about during Science week!

It would be fantastic if you could bring in an old white or light coloured t-shirt that you don’t wear anymore (yours or an adults at home), as we will be designing and repurposing an old piece of clothing into something brand new in our DT learning this half term!

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 ‘ue/ew’ sounds next week. Please continue to practise these over the weekend.

Group 1: ‘ew’ ‘ue’	Group 2: ‘ew’ ‘ue’
crew	fewest
due	pursue
jewel	skewers
clue	chewed
grew	duet
blue	argued
glue	true
argue	viewers
few	threw
screw	untrue

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 may be linked to this website so please keep an eye out for future blogs.

https://www.twigsciencereporter.com/

What a fantastic week we have had across the school to celebrate everything Science!

This week has been a bit different from normal – we started the week with a whole school assembly where we were told that we would be conducting an investigation into how planes fly and which type of planes would be the best to fly.

Year 1 conducted a comparative test through asking the question: Does the size of a planes wings affect how far it flies? We made three planes, one plane had big wings, one had medium sized wings and one plane had small wings.

The children predicted which plane they thought would fly the furthest and gave reasons for their predictions, before we then tested our planes by launching them all. We recorded our results and came to conclusions, thinking about the Science behind why each plane flew how it did. Some of the children gave some really fantastic explanations for why the plane with the big wings didn’t fly as far as we thought it would, and why the little wings didn’t fly very far either!

On Tuesday Mrs Carters son Oliver came into school and taught us all about Dinosaurs. The children loved learning which families the dinosaurs belonged to, learnt about their features and then had the challenge of sorting and classifying a range of dinosaurs into groups based on what they looked like and their features.

On Wednesday, we enjoyed researching about Water Conservation in our reading comprehension lesson, where the children read lots of information about how we can help our planet by saving water in different ways. The children enjoyed reading aloud, making notes on how they can help our environment and then created a Poster explaining what we can do to be super conservationists!

On Thursday we completed some observational drawings of our favourite animals, learning about George Stubbs, who drew detailed anatomical drawings of different animals and their body parts. The children paid attention to the details in their pictures and produced some fantastic artwork.

On Friday, the children researched their favourite animals and did some creative writing to tell us all about them. Giving them an exciting stimulus to write about really helped the children engage and produce some brilliant pieces of writing, which we are so proud of!

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

Best wishes and enjoy the lovely weather!
The Year 1 Team

Talk homework

Talk to your adults about respsonsible consumption. What does it mean to consume something? Do we use everything that we buy? Do we throw much away? How could we repurpose the things that we have?

It would be fantastic if you could bring in an old white or light coloured t-shirt that you don’t wear anymore (yours or an adults at home), as we will be designing and repurposing an old piece of clothing into something brand new in our DT learning this half term!

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.

Group 1: ‘ue’ ‘oo’	Group 2: ‘ue’ ‘oo’
blue	valued
value	racoon
spoon	avenue
argue	lagoon
zoo	barbecue
poodle	rescue
statue	cartoon
room	shampoo
glue	mushroom
food	statues

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 Year 1 we have been going over our Arithmetic in Maths, using different methods for addition and subtraction.

In PE we have been praticising for Sports Day in a few weeks. We did the Egg and Spoon race, and the Sack Race. It was great fun and quite funny!

We also enjoyed doing Art this week, and looking at the landscapes of Vincent van Gogh, drawing his ‘Starry, Starry Night’. There are lots of budding artists in Year 1.

Year 1 have also been playing football nicely during our lunchtimes. We have been impressed with their behaviour and sportsmanship.

The children did brilliant independent write’s, using a picture of a boy in a jungle. There were some amazing adventure stories and lots of creativity.

In Science, we classified animals into Carnivore, Herbivore and Omnivore’s. Bramble class scared Mr Payne with their terrifying Carnivore impressions.

Today is Mr Payne’s last day with us as he has now qualified as a Teacher! We would like to thank him for all of his hard work and enthusiasm over the past two and a half months at Buckden, and for teaching the children in both Willow and Bramble class. He will soon have his very own class at a new school in September and we wish him all the best in his new and very exciting career!

The children will be undertaking their phonics screening check at the beginning of next week, please read with your children over the weekend and if you get the chance, have a go at playing some of the games on the websites below, where the children can practise sounding and blending in order to read a range of words.

We will be doing our best to ensure that every child is happy and comfortable when completing their phonics check, we can assure you that the children have had lots of practise doing these checks (one every other week since Easter) and are fabulous at undertaking them, so please do not panic or worry as they are more than ready.

You will receive your child's result in their school report at the end of June.

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