For our first Summer term project we will become

'Green Fingered Gardeners!'

We will be learning all about plants and even trying to grow some of our own!

Hook Question

Does all our food come from Sainsburys?

We will be learning all about plants and how to care for them. We will be attempting to grow our own plants and we learn that we can actually eat certain plants.

We will also learn about the 7 continents and 5 oceans in our world as we consider where our food comes from.

Here are some of the texts we will be using. You may even have some of them at home.

Make sure you keep an eye on the weekly Sway to find out key up-to-date information about our learning. Look our for the special link that will be sent out to you each week.

Charlie Monkey

(Our Class Pet)

Phonics

In school we do phonics every day based on the Bug Club Phonics scheme. We get our planning from the Bug Club phonics website and we enjoy playing the games on there. 

Keep an eye out on your Bug Club home account as we often share the games and books we look at in class with you to view again at home.

This is the order that we teach the sounds in Bug Club Phonics.

Handwriting

In school we follow the Penpals for Handwriting scheme. We believe handwriting is the foundation for learning as it allows us to express ourselves on paper, gives us confidence and allows us to have pride in our work.

The letters are split into 4 different families. We have the curly caterpillars, the long legged giraffes (sometimes called long ladder letters), the one arm robots and the zig zag monsters. At first, it is important that we learn to form the letters in each family correctly and learn how to position them on the line. We spend a lot of time working on this in Year 1. Once this is secure we will then move on to learning some basic joins.

Useful English links (Phonics and Early Reading)

Useful Maths and Science links

Further Website Links