Regular Verbs – Doubling the Consonant

To activate our learning today, we looked at a picture of ‘Where’s Wally?’ Our job wasn’t to find Wally though! We had to see what was happening in the picture and identify as many verbs as we could – swim, laugh, sunbathe, burn, throw, sail, float etc. Then, we continued looking at regular verbs and discussed turning them into past tense verbs by adding the -ed suffix. However, we soon noticed that we couldn’t just add -ed on the end to all regular verbs, some of them required you to double the end consonant before you did. For example, the word march can be turned into past tense by simply adding -ed -> marched. However, the word wrap would need the final consonant (the p) doubling before we added -ed -> wrapped. We identified that any regular verb that has a short vowel sound (a, e, i, o or u) followed by a single consonant would need the final consonant doubling. However, regular verbs with a longer vowel sounds (ay, ee, ie etc.) would just need -ed adding to the end.

Rounding to the nearest 1000

Crew Hamill have worked really hard this week to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and then 1000. We began by identifying the multiple of 10, 100 or 1000 that was before and after our number. For example, if our number was 1235, the thousand before would be 1000 and the thousand after would be 2000. We then had to decide, using a number line to support, which multiple it was closest to and therefore which number we would round it to. We then learned a rounding rhyme to help us solve this more easily:

  • Find the place (which place you are rounding to)
  • Look next door (look at the column to the right)
  • 5 or bigger? +1 more
  • 4 or less? Let it rest

Regular Verbs and Verb Phrases

Crew Hamill continued their grammar lessons by deepening their understanding on regular verbs, focusing on how the suffix that is added to them changes their tense (e.g. if you ad -ed, it becomes past tense – walk, walked and if you ad -ing, it is present tense – walk, walking). We then spent some time working in mini crews to write down as many regular verbs as we could think of. Following this, we linked our new knowledge of regular verbs with our previous learning of ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ verbs and began to identify verb phrases which are made up of two verbs together (e.g. are swimming).

Feudal system

Now we have finished all of our castle jobs we have been able to finish the feudal system in a castle – we hated being servants but loved being kings and queens.

Massive thank you!

We just wanted to say a massive thank you to parents for all of the donations we have received for the harvest festival. We have been blown away and we cannot wait to give them to families in our local community.

Kings and Queens

We loved finishing our castle jobs by pretending to be Kings and Queens after making our crown we got to do our favourite two things – watch bluey and eat a biscuit.

Attendance Award

We hreally enjoyed our attendance treat yesterday of nun and juice. This was awarded for receiving 99% attendance for last week. Well done everyone. Keep coming to school and we’ll be able to enjoy this more often.