Emerald Class have been amazing during the first few weeks of our Weather Experts topic! Here is an overview of some of our activities so far. We are so proud of the children’s hard work, they are certainly becoming weather experts!
English
Well done Emerald Class for working really hard on your writing to include capital letters, full stops and finger spaces in your writing. We are also focussing on our class target to make sure all of our sentences make sense when read back aloud! Emerald Class are also working hard to spell their High Frequency Words correctly. Keep up the super work Emeralds!
Linking to our super science learning around the seasons, we have been learning about non-fiction books. We learnt about and wrote our own information texts about the seasons.
As part of our writing process (the Primary Writing Project), we then innovated our information text and created our own information texts about hibernating animals – again linked to our seasonal work in science. Emerald Class showed lots of interest in learning about different animals that hibernate. Here are a few examples of our work:
We also wrote our facts to make a special book all about hibernating animals. We loved becoming authors of our very own information books!
Maths
Emerald Class have been working very hard (primarily within 20) to work on number understanding. We spent a lot of time identifying tens and ones within a two digit number. Well done Emerald Class!
Here are some of our fun activities linked to learning our number bonds to help us add!
Keep practising your number bonds at home! Thank you for all your support with learning these!
How many different ways can you make numbers such as 5? 8? 10? 20?
Science
We have been thoroughly enjoying learning about seasonal changes and patterns in our science unit. We started by learning about each season in turn. We found out which seasons our birthdays are in and what we can expect to happen during each season. We learnt about how seasonal changes can affect animals. We learnt more about robins and what we can expect them to do each season. Emerald Class also learnt about hibernating animals.
Geography
In our Geography work, we have been learning about the four countries of the United Kingdom. We identified places in coastal and inland areas and then we compared weather patterns. We found out that coastal areas usually have more sunshine and wind than in inland areas. Emerald Class also kept a weather diary and identified different weather types. We have been lucky this half term to observe lots of sunshine, rain and even snow earlier in the term!
Emerald Class also used compass directions to help us to add weather symbols onto the UK map. We had great fun finding parts of the map to add different weather symbols.
Challenge: keep practising how to use a compass! Can you make up a good way to remember the compass directions of North, East, South and West! Mrs Styles would love to hear your suggestions for a team point!
PE
Emerald Class have been working so hard on their Coast to Coast challenge! Thank you for sharing all your miles that you did at home! Between home and school, Emerald Class did amazingly well and completed the class challenge of 200 miles! We are currently on 240 miles! Emerald Class love seeing their total increase! Keep up the super work!
Emerald Class have been enjoying learning and practising football skills! Here we worked on our dribbling skills!
Emerald Class made some beautiful rainbow pictures! We used oil pastels and then paint!
Computing
Emerald Class are working really hard on their computing skills. It has been a pleasure to see such great team work when the children work with a partner to practise their skills. Well done wonderful Emeralds!
Chinese New Year! 🐅
We have loved celebrating Chinese New Year this week!
Thank you so much for bringing in such amazing decorations for the new year celebrations. We loved learning about the Year of the Tiger! We created some beautiful descriptive writing about tigers and used this to create some wonderful acrostic poems. We also produced some brilliant tiger artwork.
Well done Emerald Class for all of your hard work – we are so proud of you! ⭐
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