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In our first Summer term project we will be learning lots about plants in Science and oceans and continents in Geography.
We will be presenting a class assembly this half term, demonstrating all we have learned so far in Year 1. We really have had a busy year and we cannot wait to tell you all about it!
Hook Question
Does all our food come from Sainsbury's?
During this half term we will be learning about plants. We will be attempting to grow our own plants and we may even be able to eat some of them! We will learn about the different continents where fruits and vegetables come from and understand the difference between fruits and vegetables.
Here are some of the texts we will be using. You might 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 out 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.
Bug Club is based on a document called Letters and Sounds: Click below for "A Parent's Guide to Letters and Sounds."
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 ladders (sometimes called long legged giraffes), 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.