Diamond Class
The teacher in Diamond class is Mrs Rounce. In the morning Mrs Smith teaches Year 2 and 3 in Sapphire Class. Mrs Glover and Miss Wollington support teaching and learning in Diamond class.
Home learning tasks can be found on Google classroom
Recent Activities
We wanted to thank Emma for teaching us about farming so we learned how to write thank you letters and then wrote our own. We tried to include all the features of a letter and then decorated them with images of the farm. We hope Emma likes them.
We started this week with creative art. Using a combination of salt dough and anything we found lying around outside, we made some interesting creations. Our session then split into different activities. We placed a piece of string around our feet and investigated what was going on in the ground beneath. We found lots of exciting bugs by sweeping them gently into plastic cups then we let them go again into their natural environment. The other activity combined our teamwork and construction skills to build a den using branches and leaves. We created some great dens.
Year 4, 5 and 6 read their own empathy stories to the Year 2 and 3s. Every story had a message about having empathy for others and Year 2 and 3 enjoyed learning from their peers the importance of understanding others.
In Sapphire Class, we have been learning about 3D shapes. We built a range of 3D shapes using Polydron, including hexahedrons, dodecahedrons and octahedrons! We talked about how many faces, vertices and edges the shapes have.
This week, we have been learning about the features of fiction and non-fiction books. As reading detectives, we looked for clues to help us sort the books into groups. Some of the books were really tricky to work out like the book about fossils that looked like a story book! We came up with a table of clues to help us work out if a book was fiction or non-fiction.
This week in forest schools we had a fire. We discussed how we keep safe near an open fire and added these to our forest school rules. We looked at how fires are lit today and how Stone Age man would have lit their fires, and what they were used for. We also made charcoal by burning oak sticks in a tin to reduce the amount of oxygen.
At the end of the session, we had the choice of making ‘wood cookie’ name labels to wear in our forest school lessons or playing ‘meet a tree’, where we were led blind folded to a tree, felt all around it then saw if we could recognise it when our blind folds were removed.
Today saw the start of our forest school’s session. We revisited our safety rules and played the tennis ball game to enhance our listening skills. This week we learned how bees collect honey. Running to collect water with a pipette, we emulated how bees fly back and forth to gather nectar. At the end of the session, we had a choice of looking for wasp galls or creating a ‘nature crown’ with string and items we gathered.
The class enjoyed their ‘share a story’ session so much that they have decided to hold a weekly share a story session. This week they shared their dinosaur stories. Keep checking the website to see what they share next.
Some pupils chose to spend their lunch play reading and sharing their story openers with each other. We were gripped listening to them and can’t wait to hear what happens next.
In English, we have started to read ‘Wolf Brother’ by Michelle Paver. We studied and learned the features of an opening chapter then used what we had learned to write our own opening to a Stone-Age story. Keep looking at the website as we will write the rest of the story later in the team.
