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Explorers
In our second Summer term project we will be learning lots about explorers in History and animals and how they can be grouped in Science.
We will be holding our own Explorer's Day and taking part in activities that some of the explorers of the past may have done. On this day you can come to school dressed for a day of exploring around our school grounds. You may even want to come dressed as your favourite explorer!
Hook Question
Do polar bears live in the desert?
During this half term we will be learning about animals and how they can be grouped. We will be learning all about animals that live in hot and cold places in the world and how they are adapted to live there. We will also spend time considering different ways that we can protect the wonderful world we live in for future generations to enjoy.
Here are some of the texts we will be using. You might even have some of them at home.
We will also be learning about these explorers.
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.