Today Diamond Class wrapped up nice and warm and went on a lovely Autumn walk. We were searching for signs of Autumn around our school grounds. We noticed that lots of the leaves on the trees were starting to change colour. We spotted yellow, orange, brown and red leaves on the trees and the ground.🍁🍂
We also took a trip to our orchard and picked some lovely apples! 🍎 🍏 We can’t wait to make some delicious apple treats this week!
A few weeks ago, the Year 6 pupils wrote and delivered their own speeches to the rest of their team stating why they should be chosen to be a Team Captain, Sports Captain or Recycling Officer.
They explained what qualities they had and how these would help their team to be successful this year.
After listening to the speeches, every team member (from Reception to Year 5) had the really hard task of choosing which role suited which Year 6. Each team used democratic votes to decide who would get to wear which shiny, new badge! 🛡
Thank you to all the members of staff who got stuck in and supported their teams beautifully! We can’t wait to see all the teamwork that’s going to go on this year!
We have exciting news!!! 😀💎
We now have 6 stick insects to love and look after.
I bet you would love to know their names?…
Well we have Iron Man (our first born), Mini, Steve, Ripper, Sticken and Sticky ( a very original choice!). All names were voted for fairly using a whole class vote system. Each time we vote we learn about democracy and what it means to be fair. Diamond Class are amazing at this! 😀💎💙
If you have any great names you would like to suggest for future stick insect arrivals then leave a comment below and we will take a vote on them! 😀 Thank you.
Today Diamond Class have had great fun sequencing numbers and counting! We learned that the best way to count many objects is to line them up and touch them as we count them! We are superstar counters! 😀😀
Wow! What a wonderful morning Diamond Class had investigating the Venus Fly Trap brought in by the lovely Theo! We learned that this plant is actually a carnivore and loves to gobble up flies! 🪰🪰🪰
We counted three flies caught in total!
Thank you for a super morning Theo and family! ❤️💎🪰
On Friday Reception Class met their special Year 6 buddies for the very first time! We absolutely loved getting to know our buddies and already can’t wait to spend more time with them next Friday!
We loved showing our buddies around our classroom and getting to know them by asking them questions such as what is their favourite colour and favourite toys! 😀💙
We will be meeting our buddies every Friday afternoon for 20minutes! 😀
Wow! 🤩 What an amazing first three weeks we have had in Diamond Class. We are so proud of all the children for settling into our lovely school so brilliantly. We are so proud of everyone’s super resilient attitudes and lovely determination to give things a go. Diamond class really are amazing! 💙
Thank you to all parents for completing the forms so promptly! Now we can start blogging. Please check our blog as much as possible for updates on what we have been learning in school. (We have a lot of fun!!! 😀😀😀)
Have a look through the photos below to see our learning from the past three weeks. We have loved learning how to count and have loved taking part in super Maths challenges. We have also had lots of fun meeting the letterland phonics characters too! Our reading is improving every single day!! 📚 We have also been working very hard on our turn taking, sharing and independence skills over the past three weeks and we are already so proud of all the progress the children have made! 💎😀 As well as all of this we have also worked incredibly hard on our teamwork skills. The children have particularly loved building marble runs!
This week Diamond Class have worked so hard on all their learning! 🙂 We have been so impressed.
This week we met Peter Puppy 🐶 our phonics character who taught us all about the p sound. We also met Impy Ink who taught us all about the i sound! 🖊 We have recapped the s, a, t sounds as well this week and we are so proud of all the children for remembering all these sounds and applying them when reading! 📚 What a class of superstars!! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
I have attached a link to the Letterland website below where you can find information on supporting your child with phonics and reading at home! 📚🖍😀
https://www.letterland.com/parent-guide
What an exciting start to our day in Diamond Class!
Today one of our stick insects hatched and we are SO excited to look after him. We are going to name him later using a voting system! 😀 ✉️🖍
You’ll have to look super closely to see him in the photos as he’s just a little baby just now!
🖍CHALLENGE: What do stick insects eat? Come and tell Miss Poppleton and Miss Williams Day when you know to earn a sticker! 😃💎
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