Monthly Archives: December 2014

Sparkle the elf arrived in nursery this week and his special mission is to report back to Santa what all the boys and girls are doing. Sparkle the elf has been giving us a few surprises each day as he seems to be getting up to mischief every night, such as making a mess with tissue, building himself a train, drawing pictures, leaving us clues for tasks, etc.

Sparkle’s antics have given the children lots of opportunities to talk and share their ideas about what he is doing.

We have been counting lots of Christmas objects and matching then to the right number to complete our Christmas puzzle.

We have had a Christmas picture hunt in the classroom, where we match the pictures we find to those on our list and tick them off. We then counted how many pictures we had found.

We had a lovely day out on our school trip to Poundffald farm. It was a beautiful sunny day which made our chocolate hunt through the Christmas trees lots of fun.

We saw lots of animals such as pigs, lambs and reindeer. We kept a lookout for Rudolph but he must have been busy helping Santa.

We have been reminding ourselves to do good listening in the classroom and to be kind to our friends, especially as Sparkle the Elf will be reporting back to Santa!

When we discovered Sparkle had drawn a picture of Santa, the children had a go at drawing Sparkle. They looked really hard at the shapes and colours needed for his face and hat.

We are doing some great singing for our show and can’t wait for you to come and watch us.

We have been listening to music on Penpals and moving our bodies in straight lines, zig-zag lines and in circles. The children have also been developing their fine motor skills by making paper chains to decorate Santa’s workshop in our classroom.

We have been singing “We wish you a Merry Christmas” in welsh for our show and are getting very good at it.

We are also trying to remember our Welsh words for check-in – Hapus, Wedi blino and Trist.

We have a dress rehearsal for our concert on the 11^th December so please can all costumes be brought in to school on Monday. If you need any help with the costumes, please ask.

Don’t forget the Flying Start and Nursery show will be on Friday 12^th December.

Have a good weekend.

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

We listened to the story “Jack and the Beanstalk” and we practiced our pen control by tracing along the path to connect the characters from the story.

We used Puppet Pals on the i-pad to retell the story and lots of children were very good at remembering what happened. Ask them to tell you the story at home.

We used cubes of jelly to help us with our counting this week, placing the jelly cubes on the number squares and counting how many we had altogether.

We also looked at sizes by playing a matching game on the interactive whiteboard.

We also did some job puzzles which included firefighters, police, chef, dentist, vet, etc. The children had to talk about what each person did.

We talked about whether Jack was right or wrong to take the golden hen and harp from the Giant. Most children decided that it wasn’t right for Jack to have taken things that didn’t belong to him.

We did some junk printing by using rubbish we don’t need to create some art. It was fun to explore the different shapes each object made on the paper.

We have been playing jigsaws this week to develop our fine motor skills. We moved and danced to jelly on a plate making our bodies as wiggly as we could.

We are practising our Welsh counting this week by counting how many children are in school every day.

We also matched pictures in a counting book by counting in Welsh.

We are very excited to go and visit Santa on Monday for our school trip to Poundffald Farm in Three Crosses. Don’t forget to bring a packed lunch with you and dress appropriately for the weather – wellies will be a must if it is wet.

Have a good weekend.

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

We talked about needing invitations to invite someone to a party and the children then made invitations to give to you for our Christmas show on December 12th. I hope you will be able to come and watch.

We ordered numbers from 1 to 10 to make an insect picture.

We also counted the insects on the card and put a peg on the correct number.

We also looked at shapes and collected leaves outdoors and made triangles, squares, circles and rectangles with them.

We have been trying to remember to say please and thank-you when we are class and have praised children who have remembered. Diawn!

We have started practising our Christmas songs this week and we learnt the movements we need to go with the music.

On Move-It Monday we watched some Indian dancing and then had a go at doing the moves ourselves. It was lots of fun! We also practised our fine motor skills by trying to rescue the insects that were hidden in the lentils using tweezers.

We played a circle game called “Beth sy’ yn y bocs?” (What is in the box?) We sang the rhyme as we passed the box around the circle and the children had to pick an animal out of the box. We practised the animal names in welsh.

Thank you all for making appointments to see me for parents meetings.

Don’t forget to bring in your child’s costume for the Christmas concert. If you need any help with a costume, don’t forget to come and see us.

Have a good weekend.

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

We have learnt the rhyme Humpty Dumpty and practiced singing it with props in the performance area.

We wrote advice for the Kings Men who couldn’t put Humpty together again with ideas of how they could fix Humpty Dumpty. My favourite idea was “Use glitter glue!”

We played a hedgehog counting game this week – rolling the dice and them putting the correct number of spines on the hedgehog.

We used our hands for playing counting rhymes “10 Little fingers” and “Peter Hammers 1 Hammer”

We read a story “Pudsey Like to Help” for Children in Need day and we talked about how we can be helpful in school and at home.

We used red hearts to make a poppy for Remembrance Day and we joined the whole school for assembly in the morning.

The children made a playdough Humpty Dumpty and built a wall for him to sit on.

On Move-It Monday we used different equipment to practice our gross motor skills. We moved in different ways around the hoops and the shared a hoop with a friend when the teacher said stop. We took turns to throw beanbags into the hoops and crawled through the hoops.

We have been learning a new weather song sung to the Adams Family tune!

Sut mae tywydd heddiw,

Sut mae tywydd heddiw,

Sut mae tywydd heddiw,

Mae hi’n bwrw glaw!

Don’t forget parent meetings on Monday – I look forward to seeing you all.

Have a good weekend.