Living and Learning – strong emotions
We have been talking about strong emotions in our Living and Learning sessions. Children need to be able to identify their emotions and understand that some emotions feel very big but that they do pass and change over time.
Help at home by watching this video about a lost alien. Talk about how Beegu might feel and if they have ever felt those same emotions.
One potato, two potato, three potato…
We have planted some potatoes outside our classrooms and will be watching them grow over the next few months!
Living and learning: Pay and receive compliments
Year 5/6M discussed what a compliment is and what it feels like to receive compliments. We wrote compliments to other people in our class and talked about which compliments were unexpected.
We miss you, Daniel!
Living and Learning-Strong Emotions (Positive and Negative)
In KS1, we continually discuss our emotions. It is part of our emotional intelligence to be aware of what we and others are feeling. It is also key that we know strategies for dealing with strong emotions. Mindfulness, breathing, talking and counting are all strategies that we can use to prevent us from negatively reacting to a strong emotion. How do you cope with a strong emotion? Have you discussed this with your child?
An important message that we re-emphasise with the children is that it’s ok to feel the way that you do. You may feel like it for an hour, a day, a week, a month or even a year but feelings do change. You won’t feel the same forever. We know that healthy children are in a better position to learn and being healthy includes our physical, social, emotional and psychological selves. We are in the business of supporting healthy life long learners. How are you feeling today?
World book day
Thank you to those of you who came to the stay and read on Thursday 07 March. The children really enjoyed sharing stories with you. It was also a great opportunity to highlight the importance of your child reading their school reading book as often as possible – daily is recommended in order to support your child’s reading development.
The children also enjoyed sharing the adventurous words they have been exploring at school. Whilst your child reading to you is important, it is also important that you read to your child. This way your child will be able to experience more ‘adventurous’ words that would not be in their own school reading book. We are constantly picking out adventurous words from stories we read at school – this is a great way to develop your child’s vocabulary.
We would also like to say a HUGE well-done to all children in Foundation class for putting on a fantastic assembly. The children were very confident and spoke loudly in such a big assembly hall. We hope you enjoyed the assembly too.
The home-link this week is in your child’s book bag. This week we are asking you to listen to your child re-tell a favourite story. We are often re-telling stories in school using the story actions and sentence starters that we used in our assembly on Friday (First, Then, Suddenly, After that, Luckily, Finally). Please return the home-link this week. Home-links are a great opportunity for us to hear about your child’s learning at school and gain a bigger picture of what your child can do.
Class novel Big Topic – homework
There were some lovely examples of homework this week. Children wrote poems, drew pictures, made cartoon strips, maps and posters to name a few! Thank you for supporting the children at home.
World Book Day 2019
Wow! Our costumes are very impressive, don’t you agree? We have thoroughly enjoyed dressing up and celebrating books today. Sharing books and poems with other children and adults throughout the school has been a highlight. Thank you for supporting your child/children with their costumes. We’ve had a fantastic day!
World Book Day
The children enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day and talking about their favourite characters. We talked about our favourite books, shared them with children from other classes and enjoyed a reading assembly at the end of the day. Thank you for all the wonderful costumes!
Book Day Fun
Thursday 7th March
We had a wonderful day today, full of smiles and creative costumes to celebrate World Book Day.
Can you guess who we are?
Harry Potter was THE most popular choice of costume .. 8 in just one class!
We shared our favourite books with friends.
Thank you to everybody’s time and effort in making today great.