This week, we wrote our amazing information pages all about whales. We made sure to include a short, snappy title and of course lots of interesting facts.

Next week is our ‘Book Week’ where we will participating in various exciting activities. Miss Luetchford has a mystery book that we will be using throughout the week to stimulate our writing. We look forward to the book being revealed on Monday.

In maths we have been learning how to double numbers. We have learnt that double 6 is the same as 6 + 6 or 6 x 2. We drew pictures to help us solve the equation and some of us began to use our knowledge of partitioning to help us double two-digit numbers.

E.g. Double 24:

Double 20 = 40

Double 4 = 8

40 + 8 = 48

We have started to learn about division and will continue this learning next week.

In art we have been learning about the artist Lowry and his seascape paintings. We used pastels to create our own Lowry inspired sea side picture.

In phonics we have been revising the following sounds:

• oa (goat, boat)
• oe (toe)
• o-e (phone, home)
• ow (blow, snow)

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

This week we have enjoyed learning about Albie’s pokemon book, Grace’s dolls, Coco’s teddies, Ranga’s picture and Nicky’s teddies. Next week it is the turn of the shark table for Show and Tell (Ben, Lenny, Marcus, Caroline, Theo and Eliza).

Congratulations to Year 5 on their amazing assembly about the Victorians. We especially liked all of the songs.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team