w/b- 22/04/2024 What a fantastic outdoor learning week we have had.

Literacy- We are now reading ‘The Enormous Turnip’ in class and have had great fun in PE acting out the story. We know this story well now as have listened to varied songs, stories and acted it out in class too. We can answer questions like ‘who?’ ‘what?’ and ‘where?’ and explain why we liked about the story too. We continue to add new songs to our repertoire. Our recent ones are ‘Little Peter Rabbit’, Humpty Dumpty, Twinkle, Twinkle and The Grand Old Duke of York. All of these repetitive nursery rhymes help with our language and number skills and are hugely FUN!

Numeracy- In our role play of the Turnip story there is a lot of counting. We had to count the correct number of people to pull the turnip. We also used ordinal language like ‘first’ ‘second’ and ‘third’.

We have been on a bug hunt and used bug holders with magnifying eyes to see what we found. I loved the way you kept on trying- when you couldn’t initially find any and this helps to build your resilience. You enjoyed sharing what you’d found with your friends and we chatted lots about the creature’s lives and how important it was to put them back when we had finished looking at them.

We have also been gardening and finding more bugs in the soil. We also planted our own seeds like Jack did. We chose to plant bean or sunflower seeds and can’t wait to watch them grow.

Next week we will look at how the children have grown. Thanks to everyone for the baby pictures we have received and please can we have them handed in if you haven’t done yet.

We continue to mirror the activities inside, outside so please ALWAYS bring coats even if it appears ok as it does get cold outside.

w/b- 15/4/2024 We’ve continued to have lots of Jack and the beanstalk fun this week.

Literacy- We found huge, some would say giant, footprints in class this week. It sparked so much chatter and debate. Was it Father Christmas or a Giant? We remembered it was April so thought the Giant more likely. This sparked us going on a Giant Hunt. We found signs that a giant had possibly broken the pavement. We asked our chickens if they had seen an anything. This led us on a golden egg hunt, working with our friend to find the Giants dropped eggs. In groups we decided to keep the eggs safe and make nests. Our first nests were ok but our second attempts were much better and held more eggs. The amount of descriptive words we’ve used to say Giant has been incredible. BIG, HUGE, GINORMOUS, LARGE, MASSIVE to name a few! We will continue to grow these fantastic ‘word banks’.

We had a fab PE session playing ‘Jack says’ instead of Simon says and you were brilliant at acting out the beanstalk story.

Numeracy- We have been working on our teen numbers this week, remembering the song chant ‘numbers in the teens start with 1’. Most of us can recognise 14 as one ten and four ones, and some of us can call it fourteen. Please keep a look our for numbers when you’re out and about- especially teen ones!

We have been practising our fine motor skills by using pegs to make beanstalks and adding green Numicon shapes 4 and 8 to add as leaves.

We’ve continued to sow seeds using sand and next week we will use real seeds and soil.

As a whole class we have decorated the Giants castle and have a finished beanstalk and castle display.

Next week our story is ‘the Enormous Turnip.’ We continue to mirror the activities inside outside so please ALWAYS bring coats even if it appears ok as it does get cold outside.

w/b- 8/4/2024 We have loved having you back in school and hearing all about your Easter holidays.

Literacy- Our class book is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and our classroom is full of ‘growing’ and beanstalk fun. We have been acting out the story and love climbing the beanstalk, crawling under the Giant’s castle door and chopping the beanstalk down too. This book covers lots of emotions and has sparked discussion that its ok to have all these ‘big feelings’ and we may need help when we feel angry or sad.

We have two areas where we can role play the story too and I’ve enjoyed watching the children acting out the angry mum the most, as she shouts and throws the beans out of the window- Oscars await!

Numeracy- We have been making beanstalk towers with clouds on top by throwing a dice and threading that many cubes on a pole. Great for our maths and finger exercises. We have also been writing numbers, matching Numicon and counting out that many beans too.

We have also enjoyed playing a ‘growing themed’ bingo with seeds, plants and watering cans.

We have been practising our fine motor skills by rolling the play dough to see who can make the longest beanstalk.

In the sand we have been planting seeds in pots and watering them. You’ve had great imaginations as what the seeds will grow in to.

As a whole class we have working with friends to decorate our class beanstalk. We used a variety of creative tools and think it looks great. We can’t wait to put it up in Nursery and make the castle and clouds to go on top.

Next week we will continue to mirror the activities inside outside so please ALWAYS bring coats even if it appears ok as it does get cold outside.

w/b- 18/3/2024 Our final week before our Easter break has been packed full of egg-tastic and Spring activities.

Literacy- We have introduced questions to help the children think about the story we read each day. Since September they everyone has improved discussing books and this will help them even more. We have been thinking ‘what’ characters are in the story and also ‘how’ they felt during the book. It has even made us think ‘where’ is the book set as some have been in Africa, a farm or the park.

We continue to add new songs to our repertoire and Helpwr heddiw daily choice-this week we have added ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’ and ‘Baa baa black sheep.’

We used our senses in Forest School to find out more about Spring. Our eyes saw lots of Spring life such as; birds, ladybirds, bees, flowers, new green leaves and buds on plants. Our nose helped us smell the daffodils. Our ears heard lots of different birds singing. We gently touched the flowers and found patches of nettles which we discussed we shouldn’t touch. We decided we shouldn’t eat anything we find in Forest School too. However, we did decide we could have our snack outside- and we did!

Numeracy- We have been continuing to use dice to help us match: numbered ducks, Numicon, chicks and ducklings. A Spring shop has opened up outside selling barbeque food and ice creams and we have been taking turns to sell and buy these items using money. Easter eggs have been decorated with patterned loose objects and using dabber pens too.

Thank you for another great Half term. We hope you stay healthy and happy on your two week break from school and we look forward to welcoming you back for our Summer term and an exciting ‘What’s Growing’ topic.

w/b- 11/3/2024 This week we’ve been focusing on the traditional tale ‘Little Red Hen’, our ‘5 Little Ducks’ song as well as learning about what Spring and Easter means to us.

Literacy- We welcomed parents in to celebrate ‘Mother’s Day on Monday. We hope you were as proud of your child as we were. They have worked so hard on learning new songs and actions, as well as creating unique cards and flower gifts we hope you treasure forever.

This week we have been designing our own Easter Chick. This has involved lots of questions when we have been making the body, wings, legs, beak and eyes. BIG or small, long or short and pa liw/ what colour? You have had some very creative ideas and have worked hard on your scissor skills. Our display is going to look chick-tastic.

We have watched and listened to a variety of ‘Little Red Hen’ stories and similarly to the ‘3 little Pigs’ story there are so many variations. Some don’t have a dog, cat and a rat but have a bull and a duck instead!  Traditional tales give the children the confidence to learn and then retell these repetitive phrase stories- which is why we love and use them lots.

We have been matching animal pictures to the correct words using our initial sounds such as knowing h-e-n needs to start with h.

WORLD BOOK DAY- You all looked amazing and we read so many of your books-THANK YOU. Year 6 even came to read with us too- it was a super special day.

Numeracy- We have been using a dice to help us choose how many eggs we need and also how many chicks need to go in the eggs.

The playdough area has seen lots of flatbreads being made and we have been practising knife and fork skills by chopping these up on plates. This skill will help us be ready for school dinners in Reception too.

In the sand we have been helping Little Red Hen make her bread. Lots of maths vocabulary is being used- ‘How much?’ ‘More please’, ‘5 spoonful’s’ etc. I love being in this area and being offered cake, pizza and bread.

We continue to spend as much time as possible learning outside so everyone still needs a coat until it is much warmer. We are experts at 'What's the time Mr Wolf?' and can happily start a game by asking friends all by ourselves- Da Iawn

We have discussed what Spring means to us. You are excited about; lambs, ducklings and all baby animals. Lots of you have seen Spring flowers and can name daffodils. Some are excited about the Easter Bunny and possible hunts for chocolates. We learnt the weather can be mixed which is why we see lots of rainbows.

We will be going on Spring hunts next week to see what we can spot.

w/b- 4/3/2024 This week we’ve enjoyed one of our favourite traditional tales, ‘The three Little Pigs’.

Literacy- We had a dramatic PE session where we acted out the ‘3 Little Pigs’ story and had so much fun pretending to be the pigs and the wolf- great acting everyone. We then played ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ and in Welsh ‘Faint or gloch Mr Blaidd? Learning to take turns is a big part of our Nursery sessions, where we don’t always have time for everyone to be the wolf.  I have enjoyed seeing the children recreate these games with their friends this week outside- da iwan pawb! We also played our favourite ‘duck, duck, goose’ game but changed it to ‘pig, pig, wolf’. 

We continue to improve our fine motor skills in fun ways. This week we used water colour paints to paint pigs- we can’t wait to show you our display as the finished paintings are incredible.

We have watched and listened to a variety of ‘3 Little Pig’ stories and we were surprised that there could be so many different endings. 

There have been lots of fun role play opportunities in class to retell the story using puppets, toys, building materials and colouring and cutting story pictures.

Numeracy- We have been ordering wolves in size from smallest and biggest and also talking about families and how the largest could be Grandad Wolf and the tiniest, Baby Wolf.

The Interactive White Board (IWB) had a directional game on it where we moved the wolf using arrows to blow the pigs houses over. It was great hearing teamwork and the use of phrases like ‘go forwards’ and ‘you need to turn’.

Over the next two weeks we are relooking at our traditional tale ‘Little Red Hen, the nursery rhyme ‘5 Littler Ducks’ and what Springtime and Easter means to us.

Thanks for coming to Parent's Day- always lovely to see you all and hear tales from home

Mother’s Day Performance- Monday 11^th March 9AM and 2.30PM. Family or friends are welcome to attend if you can’t. We can’t wait! 😊 

w/b- 26/02/2024 We continue to be so busy that the Nursery week just flies by!

This week we’ve been learning about St. David’s Day and our important Welsh symbols like; dragons, daffodils and leeks.

Literacy- We have watched and listened to St. David’s story and learned he liked to share, read and build just like we do.

We had an active Forest School session where we wanted to be Welsh Dragons. We thought Zog could have been a Welsh Dragon so we tried all the things he did. We tried to fly, roar (mainly at trees), blow fire and finally capture a princess (the teachers had to do as we couldn’t find any princesses)

We have introduced another job for Helpwr Heddiw each day, to choose what songs we sing. This helps the children make choices and start to use their ‘pupil voice’.

We have been improving our fine motor skills by colouring in our daffodils neatly, then cutting them out and finally writing our names on them. We are pleased lots of pupils say they have ‘children’s scissors’ at home as it is such a great skill and fun activity. They look amazing on our display.

Numeracy- St David shared the vegetables he grew so we have been sorting food into fruit and vegetables and meat. We then counted what we had sorted and described which group had more.

We have also been using dragons and eggs to help us match Numicon to numbers.

We have been building castles and monasteries with friends as well.

Next week we are relooking at our traditional tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and the nursery rhyme ‘Old MacDonald.’

Parents Day is Friday 8^th March- please come and see me if you can’t attend and I can assist.

Mother’s Day Performance- Monday 11^th March 9AM and 2.30PM. Family or friends are welcome to attend if you can’t.

w/b- 19/02/2024 We were so excited to welcome everyone back and hear about your half term fun. This week our story book is ‘Tiddler’ and we are learning the rhyme ‘1,2,3,4,5, once I caught a fish alive’.

Literacy- We have a new ‘bucket of books’ we read from every morning after we have done all our jobs (self -registering, choosing our colour monster feeling, taking snack out and putting our coats and bags away). What a busy start to the day you all have!

We have been improving our fine motor skills by catching fish, completing fish jigsaws and tracing along dotted patterned lines.

We are learning some new songs to sing to a special someone soon (mum’s this might be you!) The children are enjoying learning these- especially the actions.

We have a new ‘finding out’ area where we are using magnifying glasses and fish fact books to chat about the fishy objects that are here- lots of you already know lots of information.

Numeracy- We have been catching and sorting fish into colour families and then learning how it’s easier to count ‘how many’ when we line them up and touch each one in turn. Some of us can even find the matching number.

We have been matching pegs to Numicon shapes- lots of 'fine motor' pushing skills and counting too.

We have been making fish art with 2D shapes, googly eyes, pom poms and pipe cleaners.

Helpwr Heddiw has a new job of choosing our daily whiteboard activity. This week we’ve done lots of counting and recognising numbers in these games.

We have introduced a continuous snack system this week, where the children choose when they want to eat and drink and help themselves after they have washed their hands. It is working really well and it is  lovely to see the children chatting happily with different groups of friends in this set up.

NB/Can all snack boxes be labelled for the children to identify theirs as some boxes are very similar.

Information on Parents Evening coming soon.

HOME LEARNING IDEAS. Thursday 8^th February.

Feel free to do as many as you want or add your own.

1-Practice writing your name.

Try to remember your capital letter at the start and the Read Write Inc (sound) chant as you write each sound.  

For example ‘a’ is ‘around the apple and down the leaf’. Set 1 sounds chants are in a PDF below or available on the RWI website if needed.

2-Race your toys.

We have done lots of racing in class and P.E and I hope it will be fun to create races for your toys. Try inventing some races- a backward race or an obstacle race (climbing over food tins and sliding down cereal boxes). Discuss which toy has won and what place they came- 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th etc. You could even make them medals like we did in class.

3-Play ‘Kim’s game’

2 people are needed to play.

Place 5 items on a tray from around the house. Discuss and describe the objects together.

Cover the tray and remove one object with the other person covering their eyes. Reveal the tray and try to guess what is missing.

Repeat and add more/ have less objects depending on the difficulty.

4-Draw or make any of your favourite Chinese New Year animals.

w/b- 5/2/2024 This week we learning more about the Chinese New Year of The Dragon.

Literacy- We have been drawing and writing the name of our favourite New Year animal from the ‘Great Race Story’. We all liked different animals for a variety of reasons; the pig because he was pink and the dragon because he was a good friend.

We have been using our fine motor skills by making yummy Chinese food by picking up noodles in the sand with tweezers to fill our bowls.

Chinese New Year is all about celebrating so we are learning how this done by watching clips, acting them out and discussing what we think.

We are playing ‘Kim’s Game’ with a partner. Objects are placed on a tray and then covered. One friend hides an object and reveals the tray. Our friend tries to guess what is missing. This is a fun turn taking, memory and talking game to play.  

Numeracy- In P.E we ran lots of different races- like the animals did in the ‘Great Race’ across the river, to decide the order of the Chinese New Year. We had; running, beanbag balancing, jumping frog and flying dragon races. We guessed who would come 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th and then we got ‘place’ stickers when we finished.

We are carrying on the racing in class. We are racing the ‘Great Race’ animals across the river and then making them a shape medal saying 1^st,2^nd, 3^rd or 4^th on.

We have had fun with dragons jumping on shapes in the water too and making dens for them.

We have been using our creative and scissor skills to make Chinese lanterns- we can’t wait to take them home as they look brilliant.

w/b- 29/01/-2024 This week we are enjoying all our dragon themed fun with Zog.

Literacy- We have been reading and enjoying a table fun of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler books. We are using the pictures to retell the stories and also question how each character is feeling during the story too. We also used magnifying glasses to find the hidden Gruffalos in some of these books.

We have continued colouring in neatly. So many of you were saying you’re trying to colour inside the lines 😊. It’s great how hard you have tried to cut your pictures out using scissors. Don’t they look fantastic on our class trees?

We use lots of Makaton signs in class and this week we added days of the week and our initial name sounds to what we know. We are also learning so much Welsh and this week and next we are focusing on days of the week and numbers.

We have been learning 6 more Read Write Inc (RWI) Set 1 sounds this week. To help your child with this there are lots of videos and ideas online if you google ‘Set 1 RWI sounds’.

To continue to improve our fine motor skills we have been threading and using the play dough as well.

Numeracy- We played a game where we roll a dice and then find that matching dragon egg. Hidden inside the egg were magnetic numbers we then put on our boards and try to draw. Most of us can chant to 10 and we are trying to count sets of objects too- it’s difficult to remember to only say the next number when you touch the next object. We’ll keep working on this skill. We've been doing lots of shape activities too- most children know the main 2D shapes of circle, square, triangle and rectangle.

In P.E we acted out the story ‘Zog’ and pretended to be one of his dragon classmates. It was fun learning to; fly, roar, blow fires and even capture a princess!

We have been working together to build homes for dragons and have role played being a Doctor like Princess Pearl in ‘Zog’. We watched and chatted about different jobs and lots of you want to be helpful, rich, a vet or a Doctor when you grow up. You drew yourself in your future job and we chatted lots about it.

Next week we are learning more about the Chinese Year of the Dragon.

w/b- 22/01/-2024 This week we’re celebrating the Big Birdwatch- with all things ‘birdy’. Our class book was ‘The Ugly Duckling’ and we’ve had a busy chirp-tastic week.

Literacy- We have been acting out our ‘5 little duck song in the water’ and we think your singing is fab. We have also had lots of bird ‘fact’ books to look at and were amazed at all the different birds that live near us. We used binoculars and magnifying glasses to look closer as well. We continue to use our ‘crocodile snappy fingers’ to help us draw some spectacular bird pictures which are now on our ‘Wow’ wall too. We learnt about St Dwynwen’s Day and created heart play dough and heart cupcakes and discussed what makes us feel loved.

Numeracy- We have even been using Numicon to help understand what happens in the 5 little duck song as Mummy duck ‘loses/ takes away’ one duck each time. You had fun hiding each duck and matching Numicon when singing the song with your friends. We continue to count in our songs and play and most of us are doing well recognising numbers around us too.

In P.E we did Yoga whilst following a story about Tallulah the baby owl. It was fun trying new yoga poses- we especially like the phone pose!

We have worked with a friend creating digital pictures on the IWB (Interactive Whiteboard) and Mrs Farrelly thought some of our prints were so good they could sell as wallpaper!

The Ugly Duckling felt sad in our story so we have also been using mirrors to draw hapus (happy) and trist (sad) faces and discuss what makes us feel like that.

We have started using a well-being program called ‘Jigsaw’ that the rest of the school use. This week we learnt that ‘hands are not for hitting’ and we use our words to solve problems. Jennie and Gerrie are our Jigsaw cuddly friends that help us understand our feelings and how to solve problems.

Next week our book is ‘Zog’ and lots of dragon fun is being prepared. We are leading up to 2024 being the Chinese Year of the Dragon.

w/b- 15/01/-2024 This week we finished our class book ‘Elmer in the snow’- and we even got some snow here- albeit a smattering! Many more exciting elephant activities have been going on this week too.

Literacy- We have been practising our fine motor skills threading a necklace for Elmer and making play dough elephants. Elmer has rough skin so we created lots of rubbings using different objects too, such as Numicon and Lego. The children have really enjoyed using step by step guides to draw elephants and other animals- I hope you’re as impressed as we are with their work that is now on our ‘wow’ wall. Thank you for practising the children’s names at home too- we can already see a big improvement and we are helping lots of children improve their fine motor skills which will lead to more control with a pencil too. We continue to recap our Read Write Inc sounds daily and there are lots of ‘Set 1’ sounds videos on YouTube if you wanted to practice these chants (how to write them) at home too.

Numeracy- We have been rolling a coloured dice and a number dice to write that number on the matching colour on last week’s Elmer picture- we have improved so much as the week’s gone on.

In P.E we listened to ‘Carnival of the Animals’ and moved around the hall how we imagined each animal would- we especially liked the flamingo and monkeys. We also played Crocodiles and elephants – a fun chasing game and sorting Elmer’s food (balls) too.

We have had fun painting muddy elephants and helping them get clean again.

Elephant and other animal footprint patterns were fun to make in the sand as well.

We also joined in with the Foundation Phase assembly’s hall for the first time, and did so well we will go to them every week. We watched Year 1 act out ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and enjoyed lots of being kind videos, songs and stories too.

Next week is Big Birdwatch week-so we are reading the ‘Ugly Duckling’ and making bird feeders amongst other activities as well as celebrating and learning about St Dwynwen’s Day.

w/b 9/1/2024

This week and next week our class book is ‘Elmer in the snow’. We have enjoyed lots of activities indoors and out and are hoping snow will come to Ewloe too!

Literacy-Our new Read Write Inc sounds are f, l, h,r and j. We have lots of fun chanting, acting out and finding objects with that initial sound. We write our names often by tracing over our name cards. This week and next we are doing this in our books and also trying to write it by ourselves using the Read Write Inc Chants we know to help. I have been impressed that friends are helping others remember to use their crocodile snap fingers to hold their pencil correctly too!

Maths- We have been sorting Elmer elephants and other wild animals into groups. Lots of us liked to name the individuals as Mummy and Daddy and baby etc. We also counted how many were in each group too.

Working together we have been colouring a massive Elmer Elephant to make sure he’s rainbow coloured. We have shared the pens and also been asking in Welsh, Pa Lliw? What colour and replying coch- red, glas, blue etc.

We have used the construction blocks to make homes for Elmer and friends and have read lots of lovely new books, kindly donated by Isla’s mum (thank you).

We are impressed by how excited, yet focused the children have been coming back after two weeks off- keep it up.

w/b 18/12/2023. What a fun last week of 2023 we have had. We look forward to our party on Friday.

Literacy – We have been having lots of chats about cheeky elves and dancing reindeers. It's lovely to hear the children having such brilliant ideas and suggestions to add to group discussions. We continue to vote daily on a going home story each day  and are learning to have an opinion if we liked/ disliked it and why. We have been working on drawing together to make big artworks too- sharing space and pens can be quite hard at first. 

Numeracy- We made special dancing reindeer food this week. We followed a recipe and needed to get the spoon measurements right. We also helped each other as it was tricky to pour the food in and hold our bags- good job everyone. We were given some indoor snowballs so have been counting how many we can get in the tub. We continue to learn number songs and count daily (how many children are here and how many votes for each book)- keep up counting at home too!

We were gifted a wooden tree made in woodwork by Year 6. We have used sandpaper and hard work to turn the rough wood smooth so we can paint it.

Thanks to all the parents for your help and support settling in your children this term and we cannot wait for more fun, adventures and creative learning in 2024. Enjoy the Christmas holidays :-)

w/b 11/12/2023. This is our last week of Stick Man and the Nativity story- we will look at ‘Dear Santa’ next week.

Literacy – We hopefully wowed you all with the children’s amazing Christmas performance. They were fantastic at: following their instructions, listening to the story, knowing all the actions and obviously super singing too! We are so proud of their confidence and enjoyment they showed.

 This week we have been looking at ‘What Winter Means to Me’. We used a ‘Talking Tub’ of objects to help the children chat. We had some great ideas like ‘It’s cold and we have to wear hats, gloves and coats’ and ‘unwrapping presents’.

We have been making snowflake and star painted prints for our Winter wall too.

Numeracy- This week we’ve continued to make snowmen but this time using dice-a bit like ‘Build a beetle ‘game. We had to roll 6 for a body and 5 for a head etc. This was fun and used great counting skills too. We have been practising our fine motor skills and counting using tweezers to put pom-poms in the correct coloured Numicon- we had to put 5 red in Numicon number 5 and 10 blue in Numicon number 10.

We have been practising washing our hands to make sure we stay happy and healthy. We wet them first, then add soap and make lots of bubbles as we rub our fingers and thumbs- finishing with washing the bubbles away. Most children are remembering we must wash after using the toilet too.

A cheeky Elf arrived today in Nursery and they drew silly faces on our milk and made a swing- we had some great ideas on what might happen next!

w/b 4/12/2023. This week and next our class book will be Stick Man and the Nativity story.

Literacy - We are practising how to grip a pencil to help us draw and write our names in our Christmas cards. We make a snappy crocodile mouth and then put the pencil in our tripod grip. We are even learning an action song which helps us and is lots of fun! We also told Mrs Farrelly what we wished for at Christmas and what we wanted to get better at in school- most children said drawing, singing and reading.

Numeracy- This week we’ve been using big, medium and small circles to help us draw snowmen and then chat about what details to add like eyes, carrot nose and hat etc. We have been playing ‘snap’ with numbered snowmen and improving our number recognition. We have an online advent calendar and each day we choose a ‘super sitter’ to open the next ‘door’ by finding the right number and they get a sweet to take home. Don’t worry everyone will get a go. We continue to count angels in our Christmas song and it helps to use our fingers when we count to 10.

We have been solving Christmas jigsaws on the board with our friends, taking turns and using positional language like above, next to and below to help our friends. We also have lots of snowmen to fit together- adding the head to their body and then putting on eyes and a nose, scarf and a hat.

We have a Christmas tree in the classroom that we can decorate every day with our friends which is lots of fun.

We have had performance practices in the hall and other classes came in to watch us- they said we were ‘AMAZING’ and ‘THE BEST THING THEY’D SEEN ALL YEAR.’ Our dress rehearsal was fun and thank you for bringing in all the super costumes- we can’t wait for Monday and hope you can all make it.

Thanks for all the ‘Christmas Jumper Day’ money and all your super outfits.

w/b 27/11/2023. This week we are finishing our Gingerbread man activities and our new class book is Stick Man.

Literacy - we are writing our names in our Christmas cards and explaining to Mrs Farrelly  what we liked/ didn’t about our ‘end of day story’. We also have our Nativity scene (we know from our ‘Mary had a Baby boy’ song) in our role play area we can use to retell the story. We are playing lots of listening games such as; ‘Simon says’ or at this time of year ‘Santa says’.

Numeracy- we printed with Numicon (number shapes) onto our Gingerbread Men and chatted with Mrs Tariq about having; 1 nose, 2 eyes, 5 fingers etc. We waited for the paint to dry and had a go at writing our numbers too. In the sand we have Numicon labelled plant pots and we are trying to’ plant’ the matching number of coloured seeds (plastic discs). We have learnt to play ‘snap’ and ‘pairs’ with our teddy cards- these are such fun ‘turn-taking’ and ‘descriptive language games’.

We have been chatting about how cold it is getting and that lots of us saw ice this week. We wanted to make our own so we filled a tray with plastic objects and put water in it. We decided to leave it outside to freeze and discussed how we might get the ice out- we think we’ll have fun trying!

Our Christmas cards are looking great and very individual. Everyone wanted to make two as they had lists of people to give them too- we will start on our next design this week too.

Thanks for all the performance costumes- we will have our dress rehearsal next week!

w/b 20/11/2023

Our class book is ‘The Gingerbread Man’.

We have listened to many different versions and like it when he is saved by the crow instead of being eaten.

We have been making lots of bridges across rivers-which is especially fun in the water. Our play dough skills are improving as we are learning to roll the playdough and cut out our Gingerbread men to go on the tray- lots of size and number chat has occurred too. We have worked together on making stained glass window Gingerbread men to decorate our windows and counted buttons onto gingerbread people.

We have started voting for our daily book- we put one lollypop stick on our favourite and we count which is the winner at the end of the day. This is helping us count and understand ‘more’ or ‘less’, as well as being fun to have a choice.

We continue to practice our Christmas songs and we will be going in the hall next week for practices too- everyone is trying hard and please talk to your child about how excited you are to see them perform and try their best with the actions and words.

We use our great outdoor learning area every day so please remember with the weather changing warm coats, hats, gloves and scarves are appreciated.

We are so happy that everyone has now learned how to put their coat on by themselves. Putting it on the floor and standing either side of the hood and then putting our arms in and over our heads is a great new skill. We will work on zips next!

Another fun filled, exciting and happy week- well done.

FYI- COMING SOON- Morning and afternoon Nursery will have separate photo displays for your convenience.

w/b- 14/11/2023

This week our class book is ‘The Colour Monster’. We have been discussing all our different emotions, how it’s ok to feel them and how we can help ourselves feel the ‘loved’, ‘calm’ and ‘happy’ ones the most. We now choose how we are feeling when we register each day- we put our monster on a colour monster chart-sometimes we are happy and sometimes we are angry. This helps our teachers know and they can help us.

In PE we went in the hall for the first time. We travelled like animals with emotions- ‘happy cat’ and ‘angry dinosaur’. When we heard the bell, we had to go to the station area Mrs Farrelly said Hapus/ happy or Trist/ sad etc. We watched some Peppa Pig ppts and discussed being a good friend and acted out good friend / bad friend dramas and chat.

For Anti-bullying day we wore odd socks and decorated a pair with a friend discussing what makes a good friend and also sorted piles of socks into pairs.

We painted our hands and made our friendship tree to remind us of all the good qualities a friend is kind, shares, happy, plays with us etc

We have been practicing our scissor skills by cutting out monster body parts and sticking them together.

We are starting to think about Christmas- more exciting info next week.

w/b 6/11/2023

Our story this week was ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We have read the story lots and acted it out with props too. We have been drawing sounds we know in porridge and sorting bears into coloured houses in the water. We even made porridge and discussed if we liked/ disliked it and why? We’ve been naming, drawing and colouring shapes- most of us know circle, square, triangle and rectangle and some of us need more help looking for these when we are out and about. We have been discussing Remembrance Day and watching the Cbeebies videos ‘poppies’ explaining it. We’ve made poppies for the classroom and one to wear too. Writing our names has been our whole class challenge and if you could practice this at home that would be helpful. Another busy week and thanks for being so awesome!

W/b- 23/10/2023.

This week in Nursery we are celebrating how far everyone has come already and thank all the families for making the time to come to Parents Evening (Day). We have read, listened to and acted out the fantastic rhyming story ‘Room on a broom.’ In Forest School we helped the witch by making our own wands and gathered Autumn objects to create spells to turn the teachers into dragons and frogs. We are practising rhyming by doing the register using silly rhymes for our names.

We had our photos taken and decided to draw our own portraits too. We used mirrors and shapes we know to help us. These will look great decorating our coat area. We continue to recap and learn our sounds- this week we played ‘splat the sound’ which was fun.

We have also started clapping, drumming and using our body as an instrument to sound out syllables and cvc words, such as c-a-t. We all want to learn how to write our names so we are encouraging everyone to find their own name to copy onto any pictures they make. We continue to practice counting in lots of fun ways and are remembering to only touch each object once. Thanks for donating and wearing purple and helping us get more books for school, by buying them for your children at our fair. We want to also thank you for a great start to school life and wish you a happy and healthy holiday next week.

w/b- 16/10/2023.

In Nursery this week we have been focusing on Autumn time and our feelings.  We had a great time in Forest School -finding green, orange and red leaves and counting ten leaves to gather to throw. We found some Autumn animals hiding too- woodlice, ladybirds, worms and slugs. In class we wanted to make the ladybirds we saw, and counted their spots and legs as we made them in our craft area. We also played a ladybird counting game on the big Whiteboard. We have been learning a new song called ‘Mr Hapus ydw i’ (I am Mr Happy) which has led us to discuss and act out what makes us happy and sad. We are all happy at the park and want to try our best to make our friends and family happy too. During snack time we say ‘diolch’ which means thank you and the teachers are very happy with how well we are all doing knowing our school routine and class rules. Bendigedig pawb (fantastic everyone)! Next week our class book is ‘Room on the broom’.

w/c Friday 12 october

This week we have started Helpwr Heddiw and their friend. This has led to lots of help for us!

The Enormous Turnip was our class book and we agree its good to work together when we tidy and share toys.

We’ve been learning 5 new sounds this week too- I,n,p,g and o. We are impressed how well you are doing with these. We had PE on the big yard. We moved in our pretend tractors – slow to fast. We rolled a ball to a friend and played ‘Duck, duck, goose’, ‘stuck in the mud’ and ‘dodge ball’.

We’ve learnt about our 5 senses and love listening and looking.

Have a super weekend and we will see you on Monday.

w/b Tuesday 4th October.

Today we have gone on a very exciting adventure.Morning and afternoon class have gone on a chicken hunt! 

w/b Monday 2nd October

This week, we will carry on learning our sounds "m, a, s, d and t " in lots of fun ways. Our class book is ‘The Little Red Hen’ and we’ will act it out and discuss being a ‘good friend’. There will be lots of ‘on the farm’ activities both inside and outside - such as singing ‘Old MacDonald’, retelling the 3 Little Pigs' story and building their houses!!!

Today we have enjoyed lots of fun activities outside and we all wanted to share some fun pictures.

w/b Monday 25th September

Another fun and busy week in Nursery ! Everyone has had a good time in and out of the classroom. We have been learning our Read Write Ink (RWI) sounds " m, a and s". We played lots of different listening and numicon games. We sang number and shape songs.Our book this week in Nursery has been “Owl Babies “ and to accommodate our theme, we have made owl pictures by ripping up pieces of card and glueing them onto card. Don’t they look cute ?