Welcome to Emerald Class!

Welcome to Emerald Class blog! Now our blog is up and running, we can share lots of our learning with you!

Emerald children have had a super start to their time in Year One. They have worked incredibly hard to learn the new rules and routines and we are really proud of your hard work! It’s a joy to be in Emerald Class with such happy and curious learners!

Learning

In English, the children have been working hard to write instructions. As part of our seasonal learning, the children planted daffodils. We can’t wait to see them flower in the spring! Emerald Class discussed and wrote the instructions for how to plant the bulbs. They worked very hard to include ‘bossy’ verbs and time words. In Emerald Class, we are working very hard to read our writing back aloud and check that our sentences make sense. Our class target is to make sure our sentences begin with a capital letter, include finger spaces between words and end with a full stop.

Linking to Halloween learning, Emerald Class then made their very own magic potions. They wrote the instructions for how to fly, become invisible and even how to turn into a cat! Emerald Class are very imaginative and used lots of interesting ingredients in their potions!

In Maths, we are following the White Rose Scheme. The children are working brilliantly on using the part-whole model to find different ways to make numbers. We are currently exploring number bonds. We are using resources to support us and models such as bar models, tens frames and the whole-part model.

Please see the sheet sent home with ideas how to support your child to learn the number bonds! Emerald Class are enjoying exploring the different ways to make numbers.

Kings! 👑

On Friday Diamond Class had a super discussion about God. We discussed how it’s okay for people to believe in different things and that we must respect and be kind about the things people believe in and feel are important. 😊

We learned that God is important to lots of people! We learned that Christians believe God to be a King. To mark our learning we made super, special, sparkly crowns!

We had so much fun! 👑😊😀❤️

A harvest service with a twist and a tingle

last Friday we had our whole school harvest service, but this year it was a little different. we focused on the creation story and used a potato and various other items to represent the earth and all of the things god put on the earth. The children had a great time and really enjoyed creating their harvest tingles and even added some items of their own to show some other amazing creations.

🌻⭐️💛Hello Yellow! 💛⭐️🌻

Today was Hello Yellow day and we all wore something yellow/bright to celebrate Mental Health Day and to raise money for young minds.

Diamond class had a lovely discussion about their feelings and how we can look after our feelings. We learned that we all have things that make us feel really happy.

“I love going in the bath”- Ewan 😊 “I love baking cakes!”- Taylor 😊 “I love playing on my bike!” – Jon 😊

We also talked about other feelings we have and identified feelings from pictures. We discussed that it’s okay to feel sad, scared, lonely and angry too sometimes and that everyone feels these different emotions sometimes. We learned that if we do feel this way, we can look after our feelings by doing something to cheer ourselves up like playing our favourite game, reading our favourite books or having a cuddle with a loved one! ☺️💛

We decided yellow was the colour of happiness! We read a story all about our feelings and we did some baking to put big smiles on our faces! 🎂 We loved gobbling up our apple crumble!

Harvest Assembly! 🍁💛🧡❤️

We had a wonderful morning with the lovely Kathryn from the chapel today. Kathryn came to talk to us about Harvest! We learned that God created lots of amazing and important things such as people, sunshine, food, animals and much more! We made a Harvestingle to remember everything we had learned 😀

Thank you Kathryn, we loved seeing you! ⭐️

We also want to also say a big thank you to all the farmers for providing us with wonderful crops to eat! 🚜