Daily Archives: November 3, 2014

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

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.

Thanks

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