Term 4 Down on the Farm

This term we are 'Down on the Farm' learning about animals, habitats and where food come s from.

We are excited that we will be having a trip to Roves Farm at the end of the term.

Please keep checking the website regularly for more information and updates.

Miss Horton and the EYFS Team 

What a fantastic day we had on the farm! So much to see and do! So  much fun to have! 

Roves Farm were amazing and so were the children. We are so proud of them!

Please take a look at some of the photos below and talk to your child about our amazing day!

We love learning about Maths through our play. The children are very good at taking what they have been learning with an adult and recreating it in their play.

They have been making the Numberblocks to 10, playing hopscotch, writing numerals outside and measuring worms.

Play is an essential part of our learning. Children are incredible at creating opportunities for learning. 

They have been setting up a hair salon where they have been writing appointments and paying for haircuts. They have been using the whiteboards to practise writing tricky words and some of them also decided to help their friends when they were doing their news writing by writing tricky words on our word cards.

They amaze me and make me proud everyday 

The children had such amazing fun outside by taking part in 'pancake' races. They have been learning about Shrove Tuesday. 

No pancakes were harmed in the making of the races!

The Play Leaders from Kingsbury Green came to school to play sports games with KS1. Emerald Class loved it. 

We have started our farm topic by learning about the foods we can grow.

We made a list of things that we could grow at home or in our garden.

We also talked about the animals and other things that we could find on the farm.

The children are very excited about growing things in our own Emerald Garden and they had a great time getting our garden ready. Please take a look at the pictures below.

The children were very excited to collect all of the Runner Bean seeds, especially after reading the story Jack and the Beanstalk. We are very excited to find out if any of them are magic beans!

The children will each bring home a Runner Bean seed to plant. Please let us know how well their beanstalks grow and send us photos to the Emerald Class email.

Links to videos to help learning at home.

Below are links to some of the videos we use to help us with our Phonics and Maths.  Ask your child to show you what we do in school. These are really helpful to use at home.

Term Three, Mr Men and Little Miss

How you can help at home.

In Phonics we are recapping all of the sounds that we have been learning this term. Please continue to practise these at home with your children and ask them to draw pictures to match the sounds in their Phonics Book.

Reading is key! Please continue to read stories at home with your child and write in your child's Reading Record each day to let me know what your child is doing at home.

We are focusing on the numbers 9 and 10. Please count anything and everything and look out for those numbers in particular in your environment. Numberblocks on CBeebies is also a good resource for learning numbers.

Have fun at home letting the children tell you about their week at school and what they have learnt. Look at the information on this class page together to help them remember.

Term Two Christmas!

We created a poppy wreath for our Remembrance Day display. We have been learning about why we wear poppies and we also did our two minutes silence.

Keira made her own poppy picture at home which we added to our display.

Term Two Dinosaur Stomp

and Christmas!

Christingle

Reverend Matt kindly came and led a Christingle Service with our class. Before he came we made our Christingles, learning about what each of the things represents:

an orange for the whole world,

a red ribbon for the love of Jesus,

the treats for the good things in our lives,

the candle because Jesus is the light of the world.

Please ask the children to tell you about the Christingle.

On Monday we found something unusual in our classroom. There was a nest with 2 eggs in. Miss Horton wasn't sure how they got there. We have been writing about what we think are in the eggs

on our Egg Watch.

We have been focusing on the number 5 and we used our understanding of number 5 to find 5 leaves for our autumn crowns, on our welly walk in the Sensory Garden.

Autumn leaves are so much fun!

Lego Models

The children have been busy making lots of different models using Lego. They have then written about their models on special Lego paper. They are really enjoying building and writing!

Term One Marvellous Me!

Is that what friends do?

We have been reading the story 'Is that what friends do?' by Marjorie Newman. We discussed what we should and should not do to our friends and now we are working hard to be the best friends we can!

We're going on a welly walk!

We had a fantastic welly walk to the sensory garden last week. The sun was shining and we heard lots of wonderful sounds, including a helicopter!

Fabulous and Fun Fundamentals!

The children made all of the teachers very proud in our PE session. They were able to get themselves undressed and dressed for PE, even on a non-uniform day!

The children then listened really well to the instructions during our busy PE session.

They warmed up to the 'Beans' and 'Gears' games.

They had loads of fun doing team races too!

We have been reading a wonderful story by Audrey Penn called

'The Kissing Hand'.

The children have enjoyed listening to the story and it has helped them to settle into school knowing that they can still feel the love of their families.

Each of the children have made their own kissing hand to bring home for their family to show that they love them too.

Marvellous Me

It has been wonderful getting to know the children. We have been looking through their All About Me books. The children have been sharing them well with each other and the adults in the class.

The children have also made their homes with pictures of their families inside.

One of the other activities they have done is paint self portraits. Take a look at them below.

All of the children have written their first piece of writing in their special mark making books. They wrote their news about their weekend. This is something that the children will do every week.

The children have enjoyed having lunch at school. 

Previous Year

Mrs French kindly came into school with some water she had collected from the local river. We were able to look at the different species she looks for in the water. Talk to your child about what they found.

We had a fantastic trip to Bristol Aquarium. The children thoroughly enjoyed looking at the fish and learning lots of facts. Please ask your child to talk to you about our trip.

We are so proud of all of the children for great behaviour 

We have been enjoying the story 'Billy's Bucket' and the children have written what they have seen in their magical bucket. Please talk to your child about this story and their work. Take a look below at a few examples of the children's work, which they completed independently. We are so proud of their writing.

Strawberries and honey.

The children picked the strawberries that we have been growing in our Emerald Garden. We were surprised to have over 60 juicy strawberries. We enjoyed these with some of the honey that Sherribee had given us from her bee hive.

Beekeeper Visit

We were very lucky to have a visit from the lovely Sherribee a local beekeeper from Kennet Valley.

She did lots of fun activities with us to help us to learn all about bees. Sherribee also gave a us a little bee of our own to look after and some yummy honey to try.

Miss Horton's favourite part was being the Queen Bee!

Please ask your children to tell you all about the bees!

Breaking News!

A pirate chest has arrived in our classroom. Ask your child to tell you about it. 

Mr Darcy

The children were very excited to meet Mr Darcy, Mrs Marsh's cockerel!

Spring Lamb

Mrs Marsh is currently looking after a lamb and she has been kind enough to bring it into school. We are learning how to be kind and caring towards the lamb. She has been named Nancy after Mrs Marsh's grandma.

Day eight

The chicks are growing fast and we can see huge changes in them. Their wings are growing and they love running and jumping about in their brooder box.

Day five

Today was the day that the children got to hold a chick! We were super impressed with how gentle they were with them.

Day Three

Overnight we have had 5 chicks hatch! The children were super excited to come in and see them this morning. We are also closely watching one more egg that has a big hole and a little beak poking through.

Day Two

The children have been watching the eggs very carefully and they have seen a few of the eggs wobbling. They have also seen some cracks appear where the chicks have been using their egg tooth to break through the shell. This is called pipping.

If the children listened very very carefully they could also hear some cheeping!

Breaking News!

Today we have had 10 chick eggs delivered in an incubator. One of our lovely Cherhill families has kindly donated the eggs so that we can hatch them.

As of 4pm we have 3 of the 10 eggs wobbling and we can hear some cheeping! 

Keep a watch on this page for more updates.

Our Music Tree

Mrs Marsh kindly made us a new Music Tree in the holiday and we have been exploring the sounds we can make by using different beaters. It is so much fun!

The Importance of Play

‘Play underpins the EYFS. It also underpins learning and all aspects of children's development. Through play, children develop language skills, their emotions and creativity, social and intellectual skills. For most children their play is natural and spontaneous although some children may need extra help from adults.’

Early Years Matters

Play is a crucial part of children’s development. They can learn so much through quality play. It may seem like they are ‘only playing’ but to them they are making sense of the world around them and learning and developing new skills. Therefore, it is important that they have a number of opportunities throughout their day to engage in play.