Talk homework

In preparation for Science week, talk to your adults at home about how we can reduce our energy consumption in the house. What can we do to save energy? How can we try and reduce how much energy we use? We look forward to hearing your ideas!

It would be fantastic if you could bring in an old white or light coloured t-shirt that you don’t wear anymore (yours or an adults at home), as we will be designing and repurposing an old piece of clothing into something brand new in our DT learning this half term!

Reading

Thank you to everyone who has been logging their reading on our new Boom Reader app! Please ensure that you are reading EVERY DAY with your child and logging it on the Boom Reader app.

Spellings

The children will be tested on the ‘or/aw’ sounds next week. Please continue to practise these over the weekend.

Group 1: ‘aw’ ‘or’	Group 2: ‘aw’ ‘or’
jaw	squawk
corn	scorch
claw	dawn
draw	force
horse	porch
born	trawl
prawn	sport
torch	yawning
yawn	storm
for	straw

Handwriting

Please follow the link below to access LetterJoin, a website which is really useful to support children’s letter formation and cursive handwriting. You can see how we use cursive script by following the tutorials and you can also download handwriting sheets to support your child’s handwriting practice at home.
The login details are as follows:
Username: bpa_3
Password: Year 1

Twig Science Reporter

Please follow the link below for lots of interesting Science articles which can be linked to lots of areas of our science learning. Some of our talk homework after Easter may be linked to this website so please keep an eye out for future blogs.

https://www.twigsciencereporter.com/

Wow, we have had an incredible week in Year 1. We would like to start by telling you how proud we are of each and every child in Willow and Bramble Class for how they conducted themselves this week and participated in their Year 1 Phonics Screening Check assessment. We were blown away by how confidently and happily each child came into their check and we are so proud of how well they have ALL done – we couldn’t have asked for a smoother run through and the children all came out smiling. Well done to each and every one of you!

This week has been a little different, as we have had a Foundation Subject focussed week, in which we have done lots of Art, Music, DT, Geography as well as Computing and Science, alongside completing our phonics checks.

The children loved creating their own landscape paintings based on the Artists Van Gogh, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne, we used a range of tools including oil pastels, pencils and coloured pencils in their sketch books to draw and colour a range of different landscapes including countrysides and farmland. The children showed us a range of mark making techniques and loved exploring the different outcomes from their experimenting.

The children also enjoyed listening to a range of different styles of music, whilst imagining what kind of marks they would make on paper to represent the rhythm, pulse, beat and different instruments that they could hear. Next week the children will be creating their own graphic score to represent a piece of music before creating their own music to go alongside a score.

We have enjoyed learning about the different types of land use in Buckden, the children could identify that the land in our locality is used for housing, education, industry and for farmland. We also identified that the land is quite flat around Buckden which makes it useful to build on!

On Friday we learned about the importance of following instructions precisely, by giving each other instructions in pairs to build identical towers of cubes and draw identical pictures without looking! We learned the term ‘algorithm’ and will be looking at this in more depth next week on the Computers which we are very excited about!

The Year 1 email address in a direct way of contacting the Year 1 Teachers: year1@buckdenacademy.org.

Best wishes and enjoy the lovely weather!
The Year 1 Team