Monthly Archives: January 2016

We read “The Scarecrow’s Wedding” and looked at what celebrations make us happy.

We talked about the characters Betty and Harry, drew them and described them.

We have been playing letter sounds games on the white board and playing hairy letters on the i-pad this week.

We have been using the number lne to help us count this week. We played a game where we closed our eyes and Mrs. Amirat hid a card. We had to tell her which number was missing.

We have also practised writing our numbers with a fishing game.

We compared the properties of objects in the forest  this week. We looked at dry dead sticks and soft new sticks. We talked about which ones would be best to light the fire.

We also described what our toasted marshmallows tasted like after cooking them on the fire.

We talked about Road Safety week and safe places to cross the road.

We also talked about keeping safe around the fire pit in forest schools.

We decided to make a wedding card for Betty and Harry. We looked at some real wedding card designs and then decided what we wanted to cut and stick or draw on our own. Some children even decided to write a message inside.

We have continued to learn our Christmas songs and they are sounding great.

We had PE with Jonathan on Monday.

We had our first Dough Disco session this week. We each had a ball of dough and we danced to “Happy” while our hands did lots of work rolling, squashing and prodding the dough – all strengthening the muscles in our hands for writing.

We have been saying our numbers in welsh during some maths activities.

We have also learnt the names of the parts of our face when playing a scarecrow dice game.

Don’t forget our school fete is next Thursday 3^rd December – if you have any toiletry donations please bring them into school asap and thanks to
those who have already donated.

Please let us know if you need an help sorting your child’s Christmas concert outfit.

Have a great weekend

We have had lots of fun playing in our new party role play area and lots of talk about parties we have been to.

We read Kipper’s Birthday Party and looked at how to write an invitation.

We have been looking at repeating patterns this week. We have made patterns using ourselves, our hand movements, pegboards and the sorting teddies.

Can you find something to make a pattern with at home?

We also went to the creativity pod to use the computers to draw a happy face on Tizzy’s Tools. We were learning to use the mouse with control and find letters on the keyboard to write out=r names

We decided to make cakes from the same recipe Kipper used in the story…yummy rock cakes.

It was Anti Bullying week this week and we celebrated by listening to a story about bullying and then talking about who we could talk to if someone was hurting them.

We made some party food with the play dough. We had layered cakes, and different shaped cookies…mmmmmm.

We made super anti bulling masks to wear to an anti bullying assembly

We had PE with Jonathan on Monday and we also practised our listening skills by playing some traditional party games like musical statues and musical bumps

We are becoming very good at counting in Welsh – Da Iawn!!]

We have also enjoyed singing our Welsh songs.

We have Forest School every Wednesday until Christmas holidays, so please send your child into school with the correct clothing. The forest is muddy and cold so please dress your child in layers with a waterproof trousers, coat and wellies.

They will also need a change of clothes which include pants, socks and shoes to change into when they return to school.

Thanks

We received an email message from Snow White this week. She needed our help because she wanted to have a party for the dwarves but she didn’t know what she needed.

The children wrote lists of what she would need to have a party and we set it up as our new role play area.

We did some great counting in our head to match the claps with the Numicon shapes.

We also started to look at subtraction by counting teddies onto a boat and then seeing how many were left if we took 1 or 2 away.

Our special sound this week is “h” and in the forest we talked about hibernation.

The children had to build a house for the puppet animals that would keep them warm and cosy for winter.

We used leaves and sticks to make the animal houses.

We learnt about Diwali, the festival of light and we did activities in Mrs. Land’s class.

As it was Pudsey day, we looked at some video stories on the Children in Need website to find out about how our money helps other children.

We marked Remembrance Day by making some beautiful poppy pictures using sponge stampers.

We also decorated some bunting to put up in our new party role play area.

We also painted our happy faces and looked at similarities and difference between us and our friends.

We had PE with Jonathan on Monday and in the forest we used our gross motor skills for balancing on a wibbly wobbly rope bridge. We all felt proud of completing this challenge.

We started learning the body parts in Welsh and we sang some Welsh songs.

We have Forest School every Wednesday until Christmas holidays, so please send your child into school with the correct clothing. The forest is muddy and cold so please dress your child in layers with a waterproof trousers, coat and wellies.

They will also need a change of clothes which include pants, socks and shoes to change into when they return to school.

Thanks