Please remember to log all your reading over the Christmas Holidays on Boom reader, these will be checked.

Get your children onto numbots online to practice their addition and subtraction. It is a great fun way for your child to do their maths.

https://numbots.com/ 

TALK HOMEWORK: Look around your home, what 3D shapes can you spot over the Christmas break. Maybe you could bring some examples into school for after the Christmas holidays.

This week your children have really enjoyed being the school elves. They have undertaken a Skills Builder project called 'Special Delivery' where they have delivered Christmas cards to the whole school. They were put into teams, they had many team building activities like designing a logo, stamp, creating a delivery company name and designing their outfits. The children thrived and used lots of their skills builder skills which was fantastic to see.

In Maths this week we have started to look at 3D shapes and the children are enjoying learning about them.

In English this week we have finished the Jolly Postman's journey. The children created a wanted poster as the Big Bad Wolf was dressed as a Grandma. The children used great description to describe the Big Bad Wolf and they really enjoyed this lesson.

The children have worked so hard during Autumn Term and need a well deserved break. Thank you to all volunteers who have supported Year 1 this term, we really appreciate it.

Merry Christmas and have a lovely break!

The Year 1 Team

Talk Homework - In class the children have been thinking about Industry. Talk together about what different industries are in or around Buckden?

Spellings:  Claw,  Prawn,  Straw,  Lawn,  Some        or         Paw,  Jaw,  Saw,  Claw,  You

This week the children have continued to look at poetry. As a class, they have written poems about fire, thinking about their senses and which adjectives to use to best describe what they can see, hear, feel and smell.

In maths we have been using a number line to add and subtract numbers, making sure that we are travelling along the number line in the correct direction.

Art was a huge hit this week as we have been monoprinting. The children used tin foil, paint and cotton buds to print pictures of animals. It was a big success!

In PSCHE the children have been talking about what is kind and unkind behaviour. Thinking about how we can display the kind behaviour in school, making sure that we are good friends to one another.

Talk Homework: Talk to your adults about what you like doing when you are out and about.

Remember to log all reading onto Boomreader to collect gems.

Spellings: shirt, twirl, stirs, first, many 

or

Spellings: sir, girl, dirt, bird, Mr

Half-term is Here!!  

There are no spellings this week due to half-term, but please continue to listen to your child read at least 3 times over the week.

This week in school the children have continued their learning about senses. We have looked at different animals and the different senses they use and why. Continuing with our sense's work, the children have started to explore Autumn. They went on an autumn walk, using their senses to observe things around them and using the leaves they collected, they have also created the most beautiful leafmen.

In English we have been exploring a  story map and have looked at descriptive words and phrases to describe the dark dark wood.

During maths we have been finding numbers bonds to 10. We have also been reading numbers in words, thinking about which ones we can sound out and which are the tricky words!

We have had lots of reports that the children have been sharing their fantastic french with you at home. Because of this we have attached the link to the song lyrics so that you can all sing along together!

https://www.languageangels.com/schools/public/uploads/karaoke_lyrics/1692284597.pdf 

The children have made a fantastic start to the school year and hope you have a good half term.

This week's spellings:

lie, dried, fries, tie, spies

Please continue to read with your child every day, recording their reading on Boomreader. 

This week in maths the children have been learning about part-part whole. They have done a brilliant job with this and have even learnt about the number sentence and fact family that goes along with it. 

In English we have continued with our power of reading book - Beegu- and the children have had a go at role play. We have some fantastic actors and actresses within year 1 who really captured the feelings and emotions of the characters in the story.

In Art, the children have had a go at using oil pastels to do an observational drawing of an orange. They paid attention to the gradual blending of colours and the details which they could see. 

In Science we have continued to learn about our 5 senses. Next week we will be exploring taste. We would like the children to taste a few different foods, encouraging them to use vocabulary to describe what they taste like - banana, honey, pepper, lemon, carrot, salted crisps. We understand that some children may not like the taste but will still encourage them to give it a go so they can taste the difference between sweet, salty and sour. If there are any children who are allergic to these foods please can you let us know. 

If you have any questions please email year1@buckdenacademy.org 

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