Welcome back to a very sunny Summer Term.
We have started our new topic ‘By The Sea’ and our core text this half term is ‘The Snail and the Whale’ by Julia Donaldson. This week we learnt lots of facts about humpback whales and made an information poster. Did you know that humpback whales can grow up to 16 metres long? We then organised our facts by generating ideas for different sub-headings to use in our information pages.
In grammar we have learnt about the spelling rule for adding s or es to make a plural. We learnt that if the word ends in ch, sh, x or z we add ‘es’, if it doesn’t end in ch, sh, x or z we add ‘s’.
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 begun to explore 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.
This week we thought of new group names for our tables. After voting, the winning five tables were:
- Jellyfishes
- Sharks
- Killer Whales
- Merpeople
- Crabs
Next week it is the turn of the shark table for Show and Tell (Aaron, Edward, Sofia, Bella and Lily D).
We hope you all had a lovely break,
The Year One Team