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Your login details are in your reading diary.

Spellings – The long vowel sound /oo/ as in zoo.

afternoon, food, spoon, tool, soon

Talk homework

Talk about what you learnt during your Science experiment this week.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school every day. The children will bring home a weekly reading for pleasure book, as well as their reading book. This is to share together and promote a love for reading.

Phonics

Please continue to practise your Phonics at home.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5

During our Global learning lesson, we have explored colour mixing with powder paints.

In Mathematics, we have been learning about positional language.

Within Science, we completed an experiment, using our investigation skills. Our question was, does the size of the sail affect the speed of the windmill.

In RE, we have recapped the role of all the people in the parable, the lost son and reviewed what lessons we can all learn from this.

On Thursday afternoon it was enterprise, thank you Year 6 for organising a great event.

“I have enjoyed PE” (Harry).

“I have enjoyed Phonics” (Eden).

“I liked playing with my friend” (Tilly).

 “I liked all of my learning” (Matilda. M).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year One Team –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Spellings – Introduce new spellings – Spelling shed powerpoint on server – The /ai/ and /oi/ digraphs. These digraphs are virtually never used at the end of words in English. (rain, train, point, coin, wait).

Talk homework

Talk about different types of renewable energy.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school every day. The children will bring home a weekly reading for pleasure book, as well as their reading book. This is to share together and promote a love for reading.

Phonics

Please continue to practise your Phonics at home.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5

During our Global learning lesson, we have learnt about different types of renewable energy.

In Mathematics, we have been learning about finding a quarter.

Within Science, we have created a Science experiment to find out which fruit gives of the most methane.

In RE we have been discussing responsibility and the things we can do to ensure we are always responsible.

“I have enjoyed doing Phonics” (Margot).

“I have enjoyed doing javelin in PE” (Orla).

“I have enjoyed practising the egg and spoon race” (Edmund).

A big welcome to Tyler to Sycamore class.

“I enjoyed throwing the javelin in PE” (Tyler).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year One Team –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Spellings – The vowel digraph ‘er’.  In these words, the sound is unstressed and found at the end of words.

better, over, winter, summer, river

Talk homework

Talk about shadows and how they occur.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school every day. The children will bring home a weekly reading for pleasure book, as well as their reading book. This is to share together and promote a love for reading.

Phonics

Please continue to practise your Phonics at home.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5

Our new Global learning topic is Responsible Consumption and Production.

During our Global learning lesson, we have listened and recognised different sounds from a variety of instruments.

In Mathematics, we have been learning about finding a half.

Within Science, we have made a shadow puppet and explored how to make a shadow outside in the sun.

In RE we have learnt what a parable is and read the bible story ‘The Lost Son’.

We performed our class assembly on Thursday all of the children spoke and acted amazingly. We choose the bible story ‘The man who came back’. Well done everyone!

“I have enjoyed PE this week, we practised our throwing skills” (Grayson).

“I have enjoyed doing our class assembly this week” (Olivia).

“I have enjoyed Maths this week” (Mila).

“I enjoyed cricket this week” (Archer).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year One Team –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Spellings – No spelling due to half term.

Talk homework

Talk about the Queens jubilee.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school every day. The children will bring home a weekly reading for pleasure book, as well as their reading book. This is to share together and promote a love for reading.

Phonics

The Phonics screening test is the week we return to school, please practice reading, writing and sound buttons on your real and nonsense words.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5

During our Global learning lesson, we have found out about where food comes from.

In Mathematics, we have used our number knowledge to share objects into equal groups.

Within Science, we have identified differences and similarities in plants.

In RE we finished our topic by celebrating the church and the community it brings.

“I have enjoyed PE this week” (Ava).

“I have enjoyed doing the play” (Edmund).

“I have enjoyed my walk” (Matilda. B).

“I liked play with my friends” (Owen).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year One Team –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Spellings – Long vowel sound /e/ spelt ee.  The letters ‘ee’ make a long vowel sound like in the word see.  This is a common way of spelling the sound and is found in the middle of words and sometimes at the end.

green, free, sheet, tree, feel

Talk homework

Test your double facts to help with your Mathematical learning.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school every day. The children will bring home a weekly reading for pleasure book, as well as their reading book. This is to share together and promote a love for reading.

Phonics

Practice reading, writing and sound buttons on your real and nonsense words.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5

During our Global learning lesson, we have developed our Computing skills by using swiggle search engine, to import a picture of Buckden in the past and present day into a Word document.

In Mathematics, we have used our multiplication knowledge to help us with arrays and doubling.

Within Science, we explored the school grounds to identify all of the trees that are growing around us.

During our English lessons, we have found out what the question mark punctuation mark is and how to use it.

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year One Team –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

(garden, stars, army, dark, park).

Your spelling rule - Adding s and es to words (plurals) If the ending sounds like /s/ or /z/, it is spelled as –s. If it forms an extra syllable, then it is spelled as –es.

Your spelling rule – Some words end with an e sound spelled y. English words hardly ever end with the letter v, so if a word ends with a v sound, the letter e usual.

Your spelling rule – tch follows a short vowel.

Your spelling rule - sound is spelt as k rather than as c before e, i and y.

Talk about the journey of a raindrop (the water cycle) story from Music.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school everyday.

In English, we have begun our new text. We haven’t found out what it is called yet. We have however met two character, Anna and Crocodile. We have described both their physical features and their personalities.

During our Global learning topic, we found out some exciting facts about the United Kingdom. Hopefully the children will be able to share some with you at home.

Within Science, we classified lots of animals according to their diets and used the Scientific vocabulary Omnivore, Herbivore and Carnivore.

“I enjoyed PE, doing cat and mouse” (Owen).

“I’ve enjoyed Phonics and learning new sounds” (Harper).

“I liked doing Maths” (Ava).

“I have enjoyed some mindful colouring this week” (Arthur).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year One Team –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Share your facts about Captain James Cook with someone at home.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school everyday.

Thank you for your support in getting the children changed for PE in school now. It is a life skill that will lead to great independence for the children. Please can you ensure ALL items of clothing are clearly named as the children will then be able to identify their own clothing.

Within Arithmetic we have been comparing numbers and within Mathematics we have been writing and using numbers to 20.

In English, we have been on a journey down a river and found lots of things along the way. We have story mapped the text independently and written some fantastic sentences to describe each part.

During our Global learning topic of ‘Life below water’, we have learnt about Captain James Cook and the voyages he went on. We have written a fact file about him including a map of his journey and a picture of him.

Within Science, we have identified different types of animals and their features and we then compared different species.

“I have liked learning about Captain James Cook.” (Mila).

“I enjoyed doing writing.” (Matilda. M).

“I liked doing my handwriting.” (Matilda. B).

“I have enjoyed helping my friends if they are stuck with their writing.” (Tilly).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year One Team –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Talk about how to keep safe online.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school everyday.

Within Mathematics, we have developed our shape knowledge and can now identify both 2D and 3D shapes with their properties.

In English, we have learnt about nouns and adjectives and made our own sentences.

During our PSHE lessons we are learning about keeping safe online.

In music, we are identifying different types of instruments.

“I have enjoyeddoing Gymnastics.” (Sebastian).

“I liked doing shapes in Maths.” (Jimmy).

“I liked doing the mat work in Gymnastics.” (Finley).

“I have enjoyed doing the repeating patterns with 2D shapes.” (Ava).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year One Team –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Talk homework

Name different objects around your house, their properties and why are made that way. (A window is made of glass as its transparent so you can see through it).

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please make sure you read at least three times a week and this is then recorded in the reading record book.

Within Mathematics, we have used our subitizing skills in our Arithmetic lessons and using our subtraction knowledge to find the missing part.

In English, we have started our new book, The Jolly Christmas Postman. So far we have story mapped the postman visiting the Three Bears Cottage. We have written some fantastic reason why Baby Bear should or should not forgive Goldilocks.

During Global learning, we have compared past and present photographs of Buckden Village and noticed lots of changes, as well some photographs being in black and white. We have completed a traffic survey and we found out that cars were the most popular mode of transport in Buckden.

In Science, we have tested some materials and found out about their properties.

“I liked doing Phonics, I enjoyed writing.” (Tilly).

“I have enjoyed doing my spellings.” (Matlida. B).

“I liked doing my handwriting.” (Archer).

“I have enjoyed doing Phonics.” (Eden).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting Mrs Romaine –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Sycamore Class and Mrs Romaine. : )

Talk homework

Name some of the places we visited on our walk and what people might go there for.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Spellings - On Monday the children will be coming home with 5 new spellings to learn. These will be sent home in a handwriting/spelling book so that they can practise at home daily - we hope this will support them in learning to spell the first 100 high frequency words, as well as practise their cursive handwriting. Please return these every Monday so that we can put new spellings in each week. There will be a spelling menu stuck in the front of this book, to give you some ideas of exciting ways to practise learning your spellings at home.

Reading

Please make sure you read at least three times a week and this is then recorded in the reading record book.

Thank you for all of your donations for Children in Need, everyone looks fantastic! 

Within Mathematics, we have ended our topic of addition with some word problems that we all did very well in. We have now moved onto subtraction and we have used the method of crossing out the part that’s taken away.

In English, we have written a whole class poem about mud that linked with our poetry text ‘Out and about’. We have all written a recount of our walk around the village.

During Global learning, we had a very exciting walk around the village to find all of the communal areas around Buckden and identified there uses.

In Science, we have looked at rocks, foil, fabric and glass and looked at the properties of these materials.

“I liked doing Science and Maths.” (Harry).

“I have enjoyed Phonics.” (Margot).

“I have enjoyed doing my spellings.” (Matilda. M).

“I have like Phoincs.” (Matylda. K).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting Mrs Romaine –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Sycamore Class and Mrs Romaine.

Talk homework

Recall your number facts to 10 to someone at home.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please make sure you read at least three times a week and this is then recorded in the reading record book.

Within Mathematics, we have had an amazing time outside knocking down ten stacking cups and writing the addition calculations (see the photos).

In English, we explored sand, water and mud outside and used our speaking and listening skills, discussing our memories of times we have played with these malleable materials. This links to our poems ‘Marlarks, Seaside and Water’ in our poetry book.

During Global learning we have used our map work skills and identified all of the communal areas of Buckden, like the Village hall and the church.

In Science, we have identified everyday objects and the materials they are made of. We sorted these into a Venn diagram (please see the photos).

“I have liked colouring in and doing handwriting practice about Remembrance day.” (Edmund).

“I liked colouring the poppies too.” (Arthur).

“I liked knocking down the cups in Maths.” (Jimmy).

“I have enjoyed doing the tracing.” (Archer).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting Mrs Romaine –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Sycamore Class and Mrs Romaine.

Talk homework

Talk about the ways you can travel and the types of vehicles you can use.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please make sure you read at least three times a week and this is then recorded in the reading record book.

Within Mathematics, we have been using our additions skills this week. We have been adding the parts to find the whole and using a number line to count on.

In English, we have started our new Poetry book ‘Out and about’ By Shirley Hughes. We have created some amazing story concept maps and these helped us to write about what we enjoy when we are out and about.

Our new Global learning topic is Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. We have learnt about different types of transport and ways of travel.

In Science we are learning about Materials and we have identified what some everyday objects are made of.

“I have enjoyed doing Maths, I liked using the numberlines.” (Harper).

“I liked doing Science and materials.” (Sebastian).

“I liked doing the part, part, whole.” (Ava).

“I have enjoyed doing RE about good deeds.” (Harry).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting Mrs Romaine –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Sycamore Class and Mrs Romaine.

Talk homework

Talk about the rolls and travels you have learnt so far in Gymnastics.

Please can you start to save your cereal boxes over this half term, so we can use them for our DT project at the end of the half term, thank you.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school everyday.

Within Mathematics, we have continued our learning journey about part, part, whole models and used our number facts to solve calculations.

In English, we have used question marks when writing questions to ask Beegu. We found out that she likes Spaghetti Bolognese and carrots. Also, that she is lonely as she can’t find her family.

Within RE, we have had some great discussions, discussing the ‘Big Freeze’ illustrations that represented the parts of the Creation story.

We have finished our class reader, The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me, by Roald Dahl and loved the ending.

During our Global learning lesson, we have completed some art work, using areas of the school and produced some textured rubbings of bricks, the playground and the fence.

“I have enjoyed doing Maths and using my facts.” (Margot).

“I liked doing the building rubbings.” (Harry).

“I liked doing Phonics.” (Orla).

“I have enjoyed doing the Beegu spellings.” (Archer).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting Mrs Romaine –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Sycamore Class and Mrs Romaine.

Talk homework

Talk about your five senses and the body part that relates to each sense.

Please can you start to save your cereal boxes over this half term, so we can use them for our DT project at the end of the half term, thank you.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school everyday.

Within Mathematics, we have started learning about part, part, whole models and how they can help us with our addition calculations.

In English, we have made a friend for Beegu from playdough and written about what makes them a good friend.

Within RE, we have written some amazing creation poems.

We are really enjoying our class reader, The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me, by Roald Dahl.

During our Global learning lesson, we have completed some amazing sketches of the school building.

“I have enjoyed doing lots of Maths.” (William).

“I have enjoyed running on the field.” (Matilda. B).

“I liked making a playdoh Beegu friend.” (Edmund).

“I have enjoyed playing fottball.” (Seb).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting Mrs Romaine –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Sycamore Class and Mrs Romaine.

Talk homework

Talk about your five senses and the body part that relates to each sense.

Please can you start to save your cereal boxes over this half term, so we can use them for our DT project at the end of the half term, thank you.

Abacus - The children can access this resource via the website and complete one game as their Mathematics homework. https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 

The children have their own log in details, these can be found in their reading diaries. The school code is kmm7 in the bottom box.

Reading

Please see the letter regarding reading expectations in the front of your child’s reading diary. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school everyday.

Within Mathematics, we have had an amazing week of WOW moments, showing our understanding of greater than, less than and equal to, to compare amounts of objects and numbers. Well done everyone!

In English we have read some more of our Power of Reading book ‘Beegu’ By Alexis Deacon. We have used pastels to design what we think her home planet looks like. We have been focusing on our new spelling rule and our progress in using cursive script (joined up writing), in EVERY piece of writing we do, is fabulous! Keep it up!

During computing we have learnt how to take a photograph using an ipad and a digital camera. We linked this to our Global learning goal (Quality Education) and took pictures of places around the school and parts of the building.

Within RE we have read ‘In the Beginning’ By Steve Turner and created a class creation poem.

“I have enjoyed PE this week, learning different types of rolls and doing the walk.” (Harry).

“I had fun writing sentences using my spellings, I wrote Jimmy is a king.” (Jimmy).

“I liked writing my Beegu sentences about how she feels.” (Matilda. M).

“I have enjoyed writing and joining my letters up.” (Ava).

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting Mrs Romaine –

year1@buckdenacademy.org

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Sycamore Class and Mrs Romaine.

Please find below our Global learning photos of our models of the classroom from an aerial view and our newsletter.

Have a race in your house with your family/toy cars or marbles and use your ordinal numbers to describe the position which each thing came in the race (First, Second, Third etc…).

To tell an adult the rhymes that help you to form your number correctly.

Number formation rhymes 0-9 with Miss Ellis 💙 - YouTube