Monthly Archives: November 2014

We practiced making big wavy blue lines on large pieces of paper to let the 5 little ducks swim along when we sang Five Little Ducks.  We attempted to draw some letter d’s on the scrimbling table – Diawn pawb!

This week’s cooking was making dotty dinosaur biscuits.

We also made daffodils for our Cwtch Cwmreag after talking about how they are the special flower for Wales.

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Have a great weekend

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

We have read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and loved it when he turned into a beautiful butterfly.
We looked at pictures from the story and talked about then and tried to put them in the right order.

We looked at patterns and tried to make a repeating pattern using carrot and cucumber to make the caterpillar’s body.

We are getting very good at counting how many children are in class each day – Diawn!

On Welly Wednesday we went outside to collect different types of leaves. We found green leaves, yellow leaves and orange leaves.  Some leaves were smooth and some were crunchy.

We brought them back to the classroom to use for an art activity.

Children are becoming more confident to talk about their feelings during check in time with Rhodri. A few are even feeling confident enough to tell us reasons for their feelings.

We used the leaves we collected from our Welly Walk to make an Autumn crown. We stuck leaves onto a cardboard band and decorated them with differ colours.

We wore our Autumn crowns while we sang this song:

“All the leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down   (Imitate leaves falling down)
All the leaves are falling down, it is autumn.

Take the rake and rake them up, rake them up, rake them up  (Imitate raking leaves)
Take the rake and rake them up, it is autumn.

Make a pile and jump right in, jump right in, jump right in,  (Children jump forward)
Make a pile and jump right in, it is autumn.”

On Move it Monday we did some counting different movements to warm up and then we did some physical literacy using the Hungry Caterpillar book. We listened to the story and decided what shapes we needed to make our bodies to act out the story. It was lots of fun and the children loved pretending to look for food.

We are continuing to practise saying “Bore Da” (good morning) and “Prynhawn Da” (good afternoon) when the register is being taken. We have also been learning to say “Ga i…” (Can I have…) during snack time.

Why not have a go at playing the cute caterpillar counting song on the attached sheet the weekend – have fun!

Don’t forget to return your data sheets and home-school agreement as soon as possible, Thanks

Have a great weekend

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

It was Tedi Twt’s birthday this week so on Monday the children talked about birthdays and planned what they wanted to do for Tedi Twt’s birthday.

We have lots of places to practice our writing and the children have been having a go at writing “b” on the scrimbling table and the white board in the writing area.

We used the bears in the maths area this week. We matched the different sized bears to the pattern cards and we sorted the bears into different colours and different sizes.

On Welly Wednesday we went on a bug hunt. We explored under plants and rocks and caught some bugs in a special catcher to put in our bug boxes. We found a caterpillar, a very big spider, a beetle, slugs and a bee. We were very kind and put them back in the garden after we had all looked at the bugs.

We looked at our baby photos and talked about what babies need and how we are different now. We had fun guessing which of our friends was in the baby photo.
We also talked about how we celebrate birthdays. Children talked about their own experiences and this helped them plan Tedi Twt’s birthday.

We made symmetrical butterflies using paint and folding the butterflies in half to make the pattern. These beautiful butterflies with be decorating our reading garden.

When we came back from our bug hunt we used the play dough to make our own bugs.

On Move it Monday we played a bean game. We had to listen to the instructions and do the action – Jumping bean, jelly bean, baked bean and runner bean – Ask your child to show you the game.
We also played Tedi Twt’s favourite game and bounced him on the parachute.

We are continuing to practise saying “Bore Da” (good morning) and “Prynhawn Da” (good afternoon) when the register is being taken. We have also been learning to say “Ga i…” (Can I have…) during snack time. This week we sand Penblwydd Hapus to Tedi Twt because he was celebrating his 4^th birthday!

We will be learning the letter sound “c” next week so if you and your child find anything at home that starts with a “c” sound they can bring it in to show their friends.

Don’t forget to return your data sheets and home-school agreement as soon as possible, Thanks

Have a great weekend

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

We went on an “a” hunt outside and found pictures of acrobats, antelopes, alligators, and avocados.

We found the ants hiding in the sand and only kept the ants which had an “a” or an “A” on it.

We pretended we were astronauts getting ready to take off in a rocket…we counted down from 10 until we were ready to blast off!!!
We picked different shapes out of a box and tried to put them on the correct plate. Some of us knew the names of the shapes as well.

We talked about where different animals lived and sorted the play animals into the correct habitats. We enjoyed making the animal noises as we were doing this.

We didn’t do edible cooking this week but the children helped to make play dough for the classroom.

We have been talking about helping each other in the classroom, especially at tidy up time. We have also been discussing other things that make a happy nursery, such as sharing and being kind.

We printed with apples on big “a” shapes. We talked about different coloured apples and decided to use red and green paint.

We used sticks outside to make shapes and pictures. We made arrows, lines, houses, triangles and squares.

On Move it Monday we listened to songs in the hall that helped us move around like different animals. We skipped like lambs, galloped like horses, waddled like penguins and flapped like eagles.
We practised rolling the play dough with our hands by making 6 legs for the ant picture.

We are practising saying “Bore Da” (good morning) and “Prynhawn Da” (good afternoon) when the register is being taken. We have also been learning to say “Ga i…” (Can I have…) during snack time.

In preparation for learning the letter sound “b” next week, please can your child bring in a baby photo of themselves?

Don’t forget to return your data sheets and home-school agreement as soon as possible, Thanks

Have a great weekend