Category Archives: Meithrin – Mrs Jones

This week Ben and Betty have introduced us to the sound f. The children have listened to stories with f in the title. They have learnt the shape of the letter and looked for the letter in the sand and around the classroom. The children have used foam to try to create the shape. They have collected items beginning with f and placed them in our basket. The children have learnt new rhymes liked with the letter sound eg Farmer in the den. The children have responded well to the stories of The Frog Prince  and The Rainbow Fish. The children have role played farm animals using masks. They are starting to use the word ‘because’ to explain their reasoning during our Ben and Betty language sessions.

The children have been practicing their counting skills again this week and they have practiced counting to four and five. The children have looked at flat shapes. The children have learnt directional vocabulary eg front, first etc. The children have learnt some new number rhymes and learnt to count to five in welsh. The children have used measuring /weighing skills in cooking sessions and made flapjacks.

 The children have learnt about fish this week and where it comes from. They have looked at farms and farm animals. The children have created their own farms using small world animals. The children have made flapjacks in their cooking sessions and tasted French bread. The children have enjoyed making footprints and finger prints in paint.

The children have been reminded about taking turns and sharing(story of The Rainbow Fish.) They have practiced good sitting and listening.  The children have taken turns to give out the snack and milk. They have become very confident using the mood board and like to tell Rhodri how they are feeling. The older children continue to help the younger ones and this is very pleasing to see! I am especially pleased with their efforts to say please and thankyou as we have been reminded about good manners again this week. The children have been reminded about how important tooth brushing is and how to brush properly. We have talked about safety in the outside area and we must take our time. We have also talked about keeping safe away from kitchen c;leaning products and medicines.

 The children have made foot prints and finger prints. The children have created feathery pictures. The children created rainbow fish after listening to the story and they decorated them with rainbow stripes.

The children have practiced fine and gross motor skills this week. The children have been exercising all week and learning to do star jumps and bending and stretching and learning to keep fit!

The children have practiced simple greetings and revised the weather in welsh. They help to change the weather board. We have revised feelings/colour vocabulary. The children are learning to ask for snack in welsh. The children have learnt simple welsh songs.. The children are responding well to welsh stories on the whiteboard and listening to spoken welsh. Bendigedig!

Thanks for all your support again this week. Please remember that library books are changed on a Friday and they need to be returned in a book bag.Next week we will be making soup as part of our Harvest celebrations and we will sell it to raise funds for our chosen charity. Diolch yn fawr.

This week Ben and Betty have introduced us to the sound e. The children have listened to stories with e in the title. They have learnt the shape of the letter and looked for the letter in the sand and around the classroom. They have collected items beginning with e and placed them in our basket. The children have learnt new rhymes liked with the letter sound eg chicken and egg song. The children have responded well to the stories of Elmer the elephant. They are starting to use the word ‘because’ to explain their reasoning.

The children have been practicing their counting skills this week and they have been investigating circles,   squares and triangles. The children have been on a shape walk in the outdoor area and they have made egg sandwiches using the shapes. They have made shape pictures and printed using different shapes. The children have learnt some new number rhymes and they have learnt the shape song. The children have cut shapes using dough.

 The children have learnt all about eggs this week. They have looked inside a real egg and learnt to identify the shell,yolk and white of the egg. They have made egg sandwiches and cooked egg in the microwave oven. The children have investigated the colour of eggs and where they come from. They have been on an egg hunt in the outside area. The children have looked at images of elephants and discussed how they live. The children have also talked about electricity and which household items need electricity to work.

The children have been reminded about taking turns and sharing toys and equipment again this week. They have practiced good sitting and listening.  The children have taken turns to give out the snack and milk. They have become very confident using the mood board and like to tell Rhodri how they are feeling. The older children continue to help the younger ones and this is very pleasing to see! I am especially pleased with their efforts to say please and thankyou as we have been reminded about good manners again this week. The children have been reminded about how important tooth brushing is and how to brush properly. We have talked about safety in the outside area and we must take our time.

 The children have used patchwork patterns to create their own Elmer the elephant. The children have made shape pictures using triangles,squares and circles. The children have made collages using items powered by electricity. The children have decorated their own egg shape with patterns.

The children have practiced fine and gross motor skills this week. The children have been exercising all week and learning to do star jumps and bending and stretching. They have run egg and spoon races.

The children have practiced simple greetings and revised the weather in welsh. They help to change the weather board. The children have learnt a song and the welsh word for egg. We have revised feelings/colour vocabulary. The children are learning to ask for snack in welsh. The children have listened to simple welsh stories.

Thanks for all your support again this week. Please come to speak to us if you have any issues or worries. Diolch yn fawr.

This week Ben and Betty have introduced us to the sound d. The children have listened to stories with d in the title. They have learnt the shape of the letter and looked for the letter in the sand and around the classroom. They have collected items beginning with d and placed them in our basket. The children have learnt new rhymes liked with the letter sound eg Dr Foster went to ……..

The children have been practicing their counting skills this week and they have been investigating diamond shapes. The children have learnt some new number rhymes and they have ordered dogs by size using size vocabulary. They have made dotty repeating patterns.

 The children have learnt about the festival of Diwali this week and heard the story of Rama and Sita. They have decorated doughnuts and tasted dark chocolate. The children have made Rangoli patterns using rice and pasta. The children have decorated biscuits with dots. The children have made dragon food in the outside area and hidden it to try to catch Dewi the dragon. The children hid the food and we checked to see if it had been eaten! They have made a dark den in the outside area.

The children have been reminded about taking turns and sharing toys and equipment again this week. They have practiced good sitting and listening.  The children have taken turns to give out the snack and milk. They have become very confident using the mood board and like to tell Rhodri how they are feeling. The older children continue to help the younger ones and this is very pleasing to see! I am especially pleased with their efforts to say please and thankyou as we have been reminded about good manners again this week. The children have been reminded about how important tooth brushing is and how to brush properly.

 The children have used their fingers to paint with dots. The children have used cotton buds to paint pictures and used dough to create diamond shapes. The children have made gem covered diamond shapes and practiced their sticking skills.

The children have practiced fine and gross motor skills this week. They have practiced their dribbling skills with small balls and learnt some simple dances.

The children have practiced simple greetings and revised the weather in welsh. They help to change the weather board. The children have learnt a song about numbers and we have revised feelings/colour vocabulary. The children are learning to ask for snack in welsh.

Thanks for all your support this week. Please come to speak to us if you have any issues or worries. Diolch yn fawr.

This week Ben and Betty have introduced us to the sound c. We read the story of Solomon Crocodile and other titles beginning with the sound c. The children suggested objects starting with the initial letter and we looked in the sound  basket for some clues. The children have practiced copying the c shape in foam and paint and looked for c shapes in the sand. The children have collected items beginning with c. The children  have learnt the clapping song and new finger rhymes.

The children have been practicing their counting skills this week and they have learnt some new rhymes including’ Five little speckled frogs’ and ‘Five little ducks’. The children have practiced counting with a variety of objects in the outside and inside areas. The children have been introduced to a cube and cuboid.

 The children have tasted a variety of foods beginning with the letter c like cucumber and carrots. They have made cheese straws and tasted cheese and crackers. The children have learnt about camouflage in the outside area and made a pretend campfire using collected sticks. They have made a soup in a cauldron!  The children have tasted a cup of tea and we have talked about where tea comes from.

The children have been reminded about taking turns and sharing toys and equipment again this week. They have practiced good sitting and listening.  The children have taken turns to give out the snack and milk. They have become very confident using the mood board and like to tell Rhodri how they are feeling. The older children continue to help the younger ones and this is very pleasing to see! I am especially pleased with their efforts to say please and thankyou as we have been reminded about good manners this  week.

 The children have have printed with cauliflowers and made caterpillars using paint and courgettes. They have made caterpillars using dough and used crayons to draw pictures. The children have cut up pictures to make a collage.

The children have practiced fine and gross motor skills this week. They have practiced their cutting skills in a variety of activities including cutting pictures from a catalogue to make a collage. The children have practiced jumping over obstacles and landing safely.

The children have practiced simple greetings and revised the weather in welsh. They help to change the weather board. The children have learnt  a song about colours and we have revised feelings/colour vocabulary.

Thanks for all your support this week. Please come to speak to us if you have any issues or worries. Diolch yn fawr.

This week Ben and Betty have introduced us to the sound b. We read the story Big Blue Balloon and other titles beginning with the sound b. The children suggested objects starting with the initial letter and we looked in the sound tub for some clues. The children have practiced copying the b shape in foam and paint. The children have collected items beginning with b. The children have sung rhymes  linked with the sound-’ Ten Green  Bottles’ and ‘ Baa Baa Blacksheep.’

The children have sorted buttons and threaded beads on a string. They have weighed out ingredients to make biscuits. We have talked about lining up ‘behind ‘ each other. The children have learnt new number rhymes and played interactive counting games on the computer/whiteboard.

 The children have tasted bread and butter and made brown biscuits. They have experienced a Teddy Bears picnic and eaten food beginning with b and tasted blackcurrant juice. They have learnt to perform the butterfly life cycle in movement. They have investigated bubbles and floated boats in water play. They have bounced balls and used bats. In the outside area, some children have looked for bugs.

The children have been reminded about taking turns and sharing toys and equipment again this week. They have practiced good sitting and listening.  The children have taken turns to give out the snack and milk. The children have learnt the Please and thankyou Song’. The older children have been encouraged to help the younger children with coats and fastenings. They have done well and we have some lovely helpers!

 The children have painted butterflies with blue, black and brown paint. They have  created bubble pictures  using bubbles and paint. The children have used instruments to make a Big Band.  The children have created bridges using the construction equipment and tested their strength with cars. The children have made sandcastles using buckets in the sand area.

The children  have learnt the Life cycle of a butterfly using movement and we have created movements to describe the egg, caterpillar ,cocoon and butterfly emerging. The children have threaded beads on a lace to improve their fine motor skills.

The children have practiced simple greetings and revised the weather in welsh. They help to change the weather board. The children have learnt the song ´Beth sy yn y bocs?’

Thanks for all your contributions to the Teddy Bears Picnic and please if you have any worries let us know.

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “t”. We read the story “The Tiger who came to Tea”.

We sequenced pictures from the story and also wrote a shopping list for Sophie to buy all the things that the Tiger had eaten!
Our Write Dance was called “Tickle Tree” which had lots of wiggly, jiggly movements in it…lots of fun!

We looked at ordering numbers and played a game on the interactive white board where we had to hang the t-shirts on the line in the correct order.

On welly Wednesday we looked at making collections of ten – ten sticks, ten stones, ten leaves, ten daisies, etc.

The Tiger from the story was a little bit muddled up and didn’t know what things we did at different times of the day, so the children needed to sort the pictures into hoops of things we do in the morning, things we do in daytime and things we do at night.

We talked about our teeth and what we needed to do to look after them and also what foods gave us happy teeth and which foods gave us sad teeth.

We also practiced taking turns playing a brush the tooth game.

In music we tapped different parts of our bodies in time to some of our favourite songs. We noticed that some songs made us tap slowly and other songs made us tap quickly.

We have enjoyed the outdoors this week and the children have got creative with the chalks outdoors, drawing rainbows, wiggly lines, faces, etc.

We played a game called traffic jam where we carefully moved around the hall being different types of transport – tractor, racing car, bicycle or motorbike. When Mrs. Amirat shouted “Traffic jam”, we all had to get ourselves in one big long line. We practised our listening skills and by the end of the session we were super speedy at getting into a traffic jam!

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We have been practising singing some of our favourite Welsh songs this week, as well as counting all the way to 33 in Welsh because we have had so many children in Nursery this week – Daiwn!

We have had such a busy first week back in school. Don’t forget, named sunhats to wear outside and put sun cream on your children before coming to Nursery.

Have a good weekend.

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “s”. We read the story “The snail and the Whale”.

We talked about whether we wold rather be the snail or the whale and give a reason for our answer.

We made s shapes out of stones outside.
Our Write Dance had up and across movements as we pretended to climb a staircase.

We practised recognising numbers by completing a snail dot to dot. We talked about what number came next ad looked on or kite number line for help.

We have started gardening outside in preparation for Swansea in Bloom. As well as talking about why we needed to pull up the weeds and talking about why we can’t pick the pretty daffodils that has sprung up in the garden, we also found some little snails, just like the ones that hitched a ride with the whale!

We talked about people who are special to us and why they are special. Children used the computer to draw their favourite people.

We drew around our hands to make lovely stretchy message cads for our special people.

We listened to instructions on the Busy Feet CD, as well as making creative movements with Write Dance.

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We have been listening to longer sentence patterns being used in the classroom during routines, such as “Mae h’in amser…” (it is time to….) and  “Beth wyt ti’n eisiau?” (What would you like to eat?)

All you Mums and Nanas out there…have a look in Saturday’s Evening Post as you may find a surprise message from your littlest fans!

Have a good weekend.

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “r”. We read the story “Little Red Riding Hood”.

We looked at pictures of different characters had had to decide if they were from the story of Red Riding Hood or not.
Our Write Dance had us making curved shapes for rainbows.

We had a visit from Robbie the shape eating robot and his friends. He sent us a message with the challenge of finding different shapes outside. The children had to make sure they fed the shapes to right hungry robot. We remembered what each shape was called too!

We talked about the Fairtrade logo, what it looks like and what it means. The children then had to make a food basket for Red Riding Hood’s grandma but only choosing the foods that were Fairtrade. Help your child look out for the Fairtrade logo next time you are out shopping.

We talked about whether Little Red Riding Hood should have talked to the big bad wolf.

We also cooked healthy rainbow cous cous salad.

We painted beautiful rainbows and sang the rainbow song.

We also used rectangles to make robot pictures.

We counted down from ten to zero and zoomed around like rockets in the hall. Then we played ring a ring a roses.

We had some fun doing robot moves to a funny robot song.

While painting our pretty rainbows we tried to say the welsh colours.
We also talked about what the shapes are called in Welsh when collecting the shapes for the robots.

We had a lovely time celebrating World Book Day by reading a very cute story called “Little Blue and Little Yellow” and it was great to see the children in their costumes.

Have a good weekend.