Thomas Willingale School and Nursery
Summer Term
What a lovely first week back we have had.
We hope you all had a lovely half term and are now feeling rested and ready for the busy term ahead.
We are certainly ready for the summer term and the craziness ahead…
In English, we have been exploring and learning all about portal stories. We read a text by Pie Corbett called Elf Road. As a class, we verbally retold this story using actions and a story map. After that, we worked together with our partners to create a feelings graph. Did you know a feelings chart is a character's emotional journey at key points in the story?
Some of us even had the opportunity to meet Billy from Elf Road! Unfortunately, Billy wasn’t real but some children had the opportunity to step into role as Billy and dress up. The other children acted as the audience and asked Billy questions based on his adventure in the story. To end the week, we began planning for our own portal stories. We are super excited to begin writing these next week.
In Maths, we have been looking at decimals.
Similarly to fractions, decimals are also part of a whole. Our Decimal System lets us write numbers as large or as small as we want, using the decimal point. Digits can be placed to the left or right of a decimal point, to show values greater than one or less than one.
The decimal point is the most important part of a Decimal Number. Without it we are lost, and don't know what each position means. To begin our new topic, we used place value counters to recognise the value of decimals up to 2 decimal places. After that, we started exploring the relationship between decimals and fractions. For example: 0.4 is equal to 4/10 or 40/100. We also identified equivalent fractions and decimals. For example: 1/2 is equal to 0.5, 1/4 is equal to 0.25 and 1/5 is equal to 0.2.
In Science, we started our new topic, which is all about us! Yes, that’s right, humans! We explored the different stages of growth and development we go through. Then, we created our own timelines to show this.
We have had a busy first week back and we look forward to sharing more with you next week. We can’t wait for Monday because we begin swimming!
Have a lovely weekend everyone.