Reception explored capacity. They enjoyed finding out how much water would fit in each container.
Emerald Class Activities
Balancing
Reception have been investigating mass. They compared items and used balance scales to see which were heaviest.
Healthy Eating
Emerald Class learned about healthy eating. We had different foods and sorted them into treats we eat sometimes and which are good for us to eat every day.
Design and Technology
We designed and made our own Christmas cards and spinner toys. The Christmas cards were pipe cleaner trees, decorated with bead baubles and we each wrote a message to our families inside. Our spinner toys were designed so that they had parts of picture on each side and when we pulled the string, it spun to combine the two part pictures, into one complete picture.
Emerald Geography
In the autumn term we learned about countries and cities of the UK. We found out about the flags of each country and how they combine to make the Union Flag of the United Kingdom.
We compared the UK to the Caribbean. We found out about their homes, beaches, weather and the foods that grow there.
History and Art
We looked at a picture by Alan Moore and were inspired to make our own class version. Each pupil made a plane, carefully studying designs of real planes at that time.
Emerald History
During our Great Fire of London topic, we learned about life in the 17th century. We thought about what job we would choose and why the fire started and how it spread. We learned about buildings at that time and then designed our own buildings to replace those that were lost in the fire.
In the spring term, we learned about World War II. In Emerald Class we focused on what the war would have been like for children. We imagined what it might have been like for evacuees and wrote letters to our host families telling them about ourselves and stating our hopes for the future.
English and History
We went on a class trip to Stranger’s Hall in Norwich to learn about life during the Great Fire of London. We handled artefacts from the 17th century, took part in a drama activity to understand how the fire spread and also looked around the rooms to see if there were any fire hazards.
Science
In the autumn term, our science topic was all about habitats and environments.
Our second autumn topic was about materials. We learned about common materials and explored what things around our school are made of. We also found out which are natural or manufactured and explored the properties of different materials, suggesting why objects are made of certain materials.
Our spring science topic is about our bodies. We are learning about our senses and discovered how our eyes work.
