Welcome back to the Summer Term. We hope you all had a restful holiday and enjoyed the sunny Easter weekend.
This week, we started our new core text ‘The Snail and the Whale’.
On Tuesday the children looked at the cover of the book and made predictions about what they thought would happen in the story.
Next week the children will be writing a newspaper report, describing the moment the whale became stuck on the beach.
On Wednesday we looked at various newspaper articles and identified the key features. We then started to plan our newspaper report to explain what happened to the whale. Next week we will be writing these reports ensuring to include a snappy headline and key vocabulary.
In maths we have been learning how to multiply two numbers together. First we used the language of ‘lots of’. For example: 3 X 5 is the same as 3 lots of 5. We then looked at making equal groups and next week we will be using arrays to represent a multiplication equation.
In history we have started to learn about seasides in the past by looking at photographs of beaches during the Victorian era. We studied the photographs carefully and wrote sentences to explain what we have found out and what we would like to find out.
In phonics we have been reviewing the sounds we have learnt so far. Below is a link to a game for the children to play to review their sounds:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html
As our new topic is ‘By The Sea’ we have new seaside themed groups:
- Jellyfishes
- Sharks
- Killer Whales
- Merpeople
- Crabs
Next week it is the turn of the killer whales table for Show and Tell (Toby, Jiyong, Nicole S, Finn, Valeri and Caitie).
Next Friday it will be our class assembly where we will be teaching you all about rainforests. We hope you enjoy hearing all of the facts we have learnt!
Have a lovely weekend,
The Year One Team