Our Dens & Dandelions Topic has begun!

 

Dens and Dandelions

 

Here we are on our trip to Porthkerry. 

We learned about the rules we must follow when we are outdoors.

 

 

 

There's nothing like snacktime in the woods!

 

After a biscuit stop, we collected things from the woodland floor - twigs, bark and sticks.

We are going to use these to build mini woodland 'Dens' back at school...

 

As you can see - we had a great morning out! 

The sun shone for us, we discovered lots of interesting things and we are looking forward to our new topic...

 

 

Friendship Web

 

In our class assembly today, we talked about the importance of good friends. 

Here is our 'Friendship web'.

 

We passed the ball of string to each of our friends to make a special web.

 



Thank you Mum...!

 

 

Thank you Mum!

 

On Wednesday March 26th the children in Class 1 invited their Mums in to school for a very special Mother's Day celebration to say "Thank you"...

 

 

 

The children wrote a poem about their mums - it was called "I love my Mum because...".

 

 

 

They performed a Welsh folk dance.

 

 

The children also sang a song about all the jobs that their Mums have to do -

it was a very 'lively' song!

 

 

Here are some of our Mums receiving the best Mother's Day present...

a big hug & a smile!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the children gave their Mums some special gifts that they had made...

 

It was a lovely morning - a special one that I know our Mums will always remember.

There wasn't a dry eye in the room!!! 

We had a lovely chat about how some tears are 'happy' tears...!

 

I hope you all had a great Mothering Sunday!

 



Cefn Mably Farm Park

Here are a few pictures from our day trip to Cefn Mably Farm Park. The children learnt how to care for animals.

Supermarket

Supermarket. We have visited Tesco in Culverhouse Cross. We were able to visit the bakery, questioned the employees and explore the shop floor . Also we found the prices of different products.

At school we have had great fun in our role play area - we have been speaking Welsh!

We enjoyed making bread and cakes in school.  Then we set up a stall to sell our products to our families. We raised £50!



'Pop Up'

 

Our topic this term is 'Pop Up'. 

 

We have been reading different 'pop up' story books.  Our role play area has been magically turned into a fairy tale castle!

 

 

We have been learning about magic 'e'...

 

so we used our magic 'e' wands to change the words!

 

Francesca Kay came along to our classroom to help us do some story telling and poetry writing. 
 

We listened to a Welsh story called 'Sion Cwilt' - here we are starting small...



...we grew into giants...

...and we looked for wood for our house!



 

We put a roof on our house!!!

 

Here we are using our poetry skills and illustrating our poems.

 

We read our poems out loud to the class.

 

It was a great morning with Francesca - she helped us to use our imagination to create some wonderful poems.

 

You might like to look on her website to see what she thought of us...

 

http://www.francescakay.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Thank you for coming to Pendoylan Francesca! x

 

 

 

 



We would like to invite you to a special Mother's Day!

 

 

To Mummy...

 

Mummy here is your special invitation! 

 

 

 

We are all so excited and can't wait to make you all smile next Wednesday... xxx

 

 



Double Sweetie Maths!

 

 Sweetie maths!

Learning to Double Numers using 'sweeties'!!

 

What a great way to learn how to 'Double' the number you have... We had to count the number of sweeties we needed to make 'Double'.

 

 

 

 "Let me help you with your counting...!"
 

 

"'Doubling' is much better than 'halving' with sweets!"
 

 
That's a lot of sweets...

 
The children really got 'stuck in' to these 'doubling' maths problems...

 
...but we are not sure where all the sweets went?

We worked really well together... but keep away from my sweets and put that tongue away!

It was a great way to keep their attention focussed on the task!

 

'Doubling' was simply the best maths lesson ever...!

 

The best bit...?  Well, Mrs Collingridge let us eat the sweets after the lesson!!!

 

Mmmmmm!