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.

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).

Continuing in our mission to learn all there is to know about verbs, Crew Hamill began investigating ‘to have’ verbs. We learned that the ‘to have’ verb shows when you own something or hold something. We played a game of Left Side/Middle/Right Side in which we had to run to the part of the room that had the correct verb. We then worked in mini crews to identify some verbs within sentences before completing our exit tickets independently.

We learned that:

Has is used when talking about 1 noun.
Have is used for more than one as well as with you and I.
Had is used to show the past tense.

In grammar, Crew Hamill have continued to learn about the ‘to be’ verb and understanding past and present. We had the Carcroft Time Machine to help us decide if given sentences were in the past tense or the present tense. We then used our knowledge to organise sentences into past and present tense.