Maths

Summer A

In our Maths lessons this term we have leant how to weigh objects with cubes and compare objects that were heavier and lighter. We learnt that the word "mass" means how much somwthing weighs. 

We learnt about capacity and volume. We have learnt how to identify whether a container is full, nearly full, half full, nearly empty or empty. We have looked at how much water a container can hold. 

We have been learning about counting in 2's, 5's and 10's. We then learnt how to make equal and unequal groups. 

Pupil Voice:

"I have enjoyed counting in 2's 5's and 10's." LLB

"I liked weighing objects on the weighing scales." EO

"I enjoyed learning about capacity and volume." PO

Summer B

In our Maths lessons this term we have learnt how to make equal and unequal groups. We learnt how to find halves and quarters of a shape and of an amount. 

After that, we learnt how to use the positional lanugage above, below, forwards, backwards, left and right. This helps us give directions in and out of the classroom.

Next, we started to learn about numbers up to 100 and what the vaule of a number really means. 

Pupil voice

"I have enjoyed learning how to use positional language." JR

"I have enjoyed counting up to 100." EO

"I love counting in 2's, 5's and 10's" AK

English

Summer A

In English, we read the story "Mia makes a meadow" and made Idle's very own meadow using paper flowers.

We then learnt new suffixes to add to a root word. We used the suffixes -er, est and -ful to describe Mia's meadow. In our 'toolkit' phase we also learnt to use 'and' as a conjunction to join two short sentences or to add a clause to a sentence.

We produced our own description of the meadow we had made.

We are learning how to use plural suffixes and 'but' as a conjunction to help us in writing a comparison of two plants.

Pupil Voice:

"I liked reading Mia makes a Meadow." EB

"I liked walking through Idle's meadow which we made." RC

"I enjoyed using suffixes in my writing." TT

Summer B

In English we read the story "Handas Surprise" and we wrote our very own recipe of how to make a fruit kebab. 

We learnt how to use time connectives to start each of our instructions. We also learnt how to use commands to help with our recipe. We used words such as chop, cut and slice. 

We have linked our English with DT where we have been learning about fruit, how it feels, smells and tastes and how you can juice a fruit. We will finish our unit by following our recipes to make ma fruit kebab. 

We are now reading "Rumble in the jungle"...

Pupil Voice

"I enjoyed the squeezing and tasting in DT which we did with our English because we are making fruit kebabs" EB

"I enjoyed trying some of the fruits from Handas Surprise" PO

"I enjoyed reading the book Rumble in the jungle" RB