Monthly Archives: November 2014

It has been National Film Week so we have focused our literacy learning on a film called “Bubbles” by Gabriela Zapata. The children watched the film and then looked at film stills to discuss how the girl was feeling in different parts of the film.
We went outside to watch bubbles and described the way they looked and moved. The children then talked about where they would want a magic bubble to take them.

We made lots of circles with chalk to create a lovely bubbles work of art.

Our maths work this week was inspired by fireworks.
We learnt a song called “10 Little Fireworks” and used firework pictures to count down as each firework zoomed off into the sky.

We had to try and recognise numbers 1,2,and 3, and then stick the correct number of stickers onto each rocket.

We then used a pretend rocket firework to listen to instructions of where to put it, e.g.  zoom it next to the books, zoom it in front of Rhodri, etc.

Children have also been using the class camera to take photos of their finished art work.

We made chocolate dipped apples on Tasty Thursday and watched how the chocolate changed from being hard to being soft and runny to dip our apples in to.

We talked about firework safety and looked at a poster where a little boy Ben taught us to keep safe on Bonfire night.

We discussed kindness when the girl in “Bubbles” decided to leave the magic bubbles for another girl who was feeling sad.

Children rolled out black sparkly play dough and used ribbons and sequins to make some beautiful firework scenes.
We also got messy doing splatter firework paintings.

On Move-It Monday we listened to a firework rhyme and moved around like rockets, sparklers, catherine wheels and the flames on a fire.
On Firework night we danced in the classed room to “Firework” and remembered the movements to use in our dancing.

We have been trying to remember our manners during snack time this week, practising how to say “diolch” when we are given our fruit and milk.

Remind your child to say “diolch” when they are at home or out and about.

Family Learning sessions have restarted on Wednesdays at 9.30. This is a fun group where you can gain ideas on how to support your child’s learning at home and make some useful games too.
Afternoon parents can come along too as there is childcare for the children. Even if you are not sure, come along and try it once to see how you like it, or speak to some other parents who have been to see how they find it.
Let me know if you would like to attend next week and I can add your name to the list.

Have a good weekend.

Ben and Betty have been teaching us the sound “g” this week.

We read the story “The Gruffalo” and then described the Gruffalo.

We used the props from the story to help us play in the Gruffalo den – we had lots of fun in here.

We played some number games this week to practise our counting.

We also looked for the different shapes in Rangoli patterns and coloured them in different colours.

We learnt about how people celebrate Diwali.

We also found out about why we wore our boots to school for Give Hunger the Boot and read a story about a little girl in Africa who has been helped by this charity.

We used pastels to make Mehndi patterns on hand outlines.
We also made Gruffalo masks, trying our best to remember all the colours on his face!

On Move-It Monday we did Write Dance to Sandy Hill which practised up and down movements.
We also played some parachute games.

We have been practising some welsh counting songs this week  Un dau tri banana – See if your child can sing it to you.

We will be learning the letter sound “h” after half term, so while on holiday, can your child draw a picture of their house to bring into school?
Have a fantastic half term and I will see you on Monday 3^rd November.

Have fun!

Ben and Betty have been teaching us the sound “f” this week.

We had a letter sent to nursery from Old Macdonald. He needed our help because all his animals had come out of their pens and were muddled up. We went outside to find the animals and when we came back we wrote a class letter to let him know that we had found all the animals.

We even had a letter back from Old Macdonald saying thank you for our help!

We sorted the farm animals into their pens and then counted to check if we had found them all.
We used foam on the maths table and had a go at writing the number 4 and number 5.

We had the rhyme props out for 5 speckled frogs so we could sing the rhyme counted how many were left after 1 jumped in.

We drew long lines outside and then measured them with our feet. We counted to see whose line was the longest/shortest.

We read the Rainbow Fish and talked about things the Rainbow Fish did to be friendly and things that he did that were not friendly. We talked about how we can be good friends. The children also told Rhodri who their friends are and what they like to do with them.

We used shiny paper to cut and stick to make our own shiny Rainbow Fish. We will use these to decorate our bathroom.
We also drew a pictures of our friends.

On Move-It Monday we practised our Kringeli Krangeli Write Dance again and the children are getting very good at their movement.
We also played a game of follow the leader, moving in lots of different ways using all parts of our body.

Shwmae Day on Wednesday was lots of fun as it was Welly Wednesday too! We went outside looking for all of Old Macdonald’s farm animals and when we had collected them all we counted them in Welsh (un, dau, tri, pedwar, pimp) and then we sang a farm animal song:
Mr. Buwch (cow) ydw i,
Mr. Dafad (sheep) ydw i,
Mr Hwyad (duck) ydw i,
Mr Ceffyl (horse) ydw i,
and Mr Mochyn (pig) ydw i,

Thanks

Have a great weekend

Ben and Betty have been teaching us the sound “e” this week.

We read the story of “Elmer” the elephant and talked about our favourite part of the story.

We also used cuddly elephants and also masks to try and retell the story in our own way.

We had to match two halves of an egg shape by finding pairs of Numicon shapes. We were trying to recognise the Numicon shapes by looking at the colour and size of each one.
We practised recognising which number different Numicon shapes represented by playing a circle game.

On Welly Wednesday we collected autumn items to put into our new cauldrons. The children wrote a list of what we found before stirring it all up and singing Autumn songs.

This week’s cooking was making a healthy egg salad.

We have been practising waiting and taking turns when playing a pass the tambourine game. This will help us be more patient when we are waiting for or turn when we are playing.

We used lots of different coloured squares to make our own patterned Elmer’s. They were very pretty and colourful.

We also printed with cubes on a large outline of Elmer.

On Move-It Monday we practised listening to welsh commands as a warm up – sefyll (Stand) and Eisteddwch (Sit down). We then did Write Dance in the hall to Kringeli Krangeli, making lots of curly movements with our hands.

Due to the stormy weather this week, we learned a new phrase for our Welsh board, “Mae hi’n stomus”

Some of us are remembering to ask for our fruit in Welsh too, saying “Ga i…” Bendigedig!!

Thanks

Have a great weekend