Emerald Class
Mrs Yassin teaches Emerald class. The support staff who work with Emerald class are Miss Theobald and Ms Stevens.
Home learning tasks can be found on Google classroom
Recent Activities
In science we have learned about our senses. We investigated taste using a selection of different crackers. We thought about what flavours we could taste and described them as ‘salty, sweet, plain, cheesy and spicy’.
“I like the cheese crackers best,” Said Ayla.
Reception have been ordering items by their size. They used the words ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’, ‘longer’ and ‘shorter’ to compare.
Reception explored capacity. They enjoyed finding out how much water would fit in each container.
Reception have been investigating mass. They compared items and used balance scales to see which were heaviest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
