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Our second Spring term project is called
The Great Fire of London.
We will be learning all about The Great Fire of London in 1666 and thinking about how people can stay safe in they are faced with a fire today.
We will make our own fire safety video to help others know what to do in the event of a fire.
Hook Question
How did a loaf of bread start The Great Fire of London?
This half term we will be learning all about the events of The Great Fire of London in 1666. We will learn facts about how the fire started, how long it lasted, how it was brought under control and eventually put out. We will learn about key historical figures such as Thomas Farriner, Samuel Pepys and King Charles II.
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.
Handwriting practise sheets
- letter-family-assessment.pdf
- unit-1-and-2-long-legs-and-words-with-double-ll.pdf
- unit-3-and-4-long-leg-capitals-and-one-arm-robots.pdf
- unit-5-and-6-giraffes-and-robots-and-robot-capitals (1).pdf
- unit-7-and-8-caterpillars-and-double-ff.pdf
- unit-9-and-10-double-ss-and-caterpillar-capitals.pdf
- unit-11-and-12-giraffe-caterpillar-and-robot-letters-and-zig-zag-monsters.pdf
- unit-13-and-14-double-zz-and-all-letter-family-mix.pdf
- unit-15-and-16-capital-letters-and-numbers-0-9.pdf
- unit-17-and-18-ck-and-qu-and-long-vowels-ai-igh-oo.pdf
- unit-19-and-20-vowels-ee-oa-oo-and-end-of-term-check.pdf
- unit-21-and-22-numbers-10-20-spacing-and-ch-unjoined.pdf
- unit-23-and-24-diagonal-join-to-ascender-ch-and-ai-unjoined.pdf
- unit-25-and-26-diagonal-join-no-ascender-ai-and-wh-unjoined.pdf
- unit-27-and-28-horizontal-join-to-ascender-wh-and-ow-unjoined.pdf
- unit-29-and-30-horizontal-join-no-ascender-ow-and-assessment.pdf
Useful English links (Phonics and Early Reading)
Useful Maths and Science links
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