Mary Ellis Class News

An ongoing experiment observing how plants grow,
Some investigations and seeds to sow.
Cress, broad beans, and peas germinating,
Keeping track of the observations we're making.
 
Similes, adjectives and conjunctions at play,
In the journey tales we wrote in May.
Powerful verbs and alliteration,
Sequencing sentences in our narrations.

Multiplication and division of fives, tens and twos,
Representations with arrays to see which answers to use.
Fractions of shapes and quantities,
Finding a quarter and a half of both of these.
Changing directions clockwise and anticlockwise,
Looking at shapes with 1/4, 1/2 or full turn to identify.

Queen Victoria, who is she?
We've been leaning about her in history.
9 children and a record reign on the throne,
An ancestor of our King and she called our island home.
 
"Ay, ee, igh, ow and ue" so many sounds but they're not new for you,
Practicing for our Phonics Screening in June, so many real and nonsense words too.

Learning to create pictures on the iPad with annotations,
Exploring tools, colours and using our imaginations.
 
So much is happening in Year 1,
We're working hard and having fun!
The weekend has just begun,
Don't forget to Doodle everyone!