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Teddy Bear's Picnic
In our first project we will be learning all about bears. We will go on an adventure with Paddington to learn all about the four countries of the UK. We will be inviting our own bears into school to take part in a teddy bear's picnic that we have planned. Look our for more information about this coming soon...
Hook Question
Do you know a bear who is named after a station?
This half term we will be learning all about the four countries that make up the United Kingdom. We will learn the names of the countries, where in the UK we can find them and we may even learn the names of the capital cities and the oceans that lie around them. We will also learn about materials in Science to help us design an Umbrella to keep Paddington Bear dry on his travels.
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
Useful English links (Phonics and Early Reading)
Useful Maths and Science links
Further Website Links