OLYMPIC

ASSEMBLY

Dosbarth Kangaroo would like to invite all their parents to our Class Assembly, on Thursday 31st May at 9.15 a.m. Both Mrs Best and myself are very proud of how hard they have been practising the last couple of weeks.

Please continue to help your child learn any words sent home. If your child has been asked to wear any specific outfits, please could these be sent in by Tuesday.

We hope you can make it and look forward to seeing you!

Thank you.



Big Talk Homework


Monday 14th May

Snack Fit for an Athlete!

This week is Healthy Week at Ffynnon Taf and as we are learning about the Olympics this is a good opportunity to talk about how both ourselves and athletes can live a healthy life style.


During the week we will be creating and writing a recipe for a healthy power snack for Team GB. Please talk about the following:






What do we, and athletes need to do to stay fit and healthy?


What does exercise mean?


Why do we need to exercise?


How often should we exercise?


What are healthy foods?


Why are they good for us?


Do athletes have a special diet? Why?


What type of snack would an athlete eat?


As we will be writing a recipe for our snack, if you have simple recipes at home please share these with your child. I have attached an example.

 Focus on the structure of the recipe:


Ingredients
Equipment
Method / instructions

Look at how the method is written i.e. The use of time words for example, first, next, then, finally etc, the use of imperative verbs (bossy words) such as, pour, mix, stir etc and how some methods have bullet points for each step or they may be numbered. Also discuss the need for instructions to be in the correct order!

 As always please encourage your child to glue any images or make notes in their treasury to share their ideas with the class and help with their understanding and writing of recipes.






Have fun and thank you!

Big Talk Homework

This week we will be learning about the Modern Olympics.


In 1912 Baron Pierre Coubertin founded the Modern Olympic Games. He designed the Olympic rings and saw in the games, an opportunity to create a set of universal principles that could be applied to society as a whole, as well as sport itself. These principles became the Olympic Values. There are 3 Olympic Values and 4 Paralympic Values as shown above in the image.


During the week we shall be exploring each of the values. I would like the children to continue talking about the values at home and share with you their examples of how they demonstrate each of the values. This is also a good opportunity for you yourself to share how you feel you have demonstrated the values in your life.


On Friday the children will be drawing a picture of themselves demonstrating one of the values and writing a caption to explain this.

 Olympic Values


Excellence - giving your best


Friendship - understanding others and people across the world despite our


                   differences


Respect - yourself and others

 Paralympic Values

 Courage - have the ability to face any challenge


Determination - practise, keep trying, never give up


Inspiration - set an example that others will want to follow


Equality - everyone deserves equal opportunity


There are many Olympic websites that will give you more information about the Olympic values and some have video clips of athletes demonstrating each of the values. The children will have watched these by Friday.


You may like to visit:

 http://getset.london2012.com

Please could you send in any cardboard egg boxes for our

 Easter crafts.          

Thank you, Upper Foundation Phase Staff



Talk Homework
Monday 19th March

Book Review

Over the last couple of weeks we have been reading many Julia Donaldson books. On Friday the children will be writing a book review about their favourite Julia Donaldson book.

Please talk about, for example:

• What the story is about?
• Where the story is set?
• Are there any new WOW words they have learnt from the story?
• How the story makes them feel e.g. excited, curious, concerned, frightened etc. (Use WOW words)
• their favourite character and why
• their least favourite character and why
• If they were a character in the story, which one would they like to be and why?
• their favourite part of the story and why
• their least favourite part of the story and why
• Does the story have a moral? e.g. Gruffalo - brain over brawn, Tiddler - telling fibs!,
• Who do they feel would enjoy the story e.g. adults, children, toddlers?
• Would they recommend the story to someone else?  

If your child finds it difficult to talk about their chosen story as they do not have that particular book at home, or you are not familiar with the story to help them, then please feel free to choose any familiar story they have at home. The most important thing is to encourage them to reflect on their favourite story and begin to give simple reasons for their choices.

Encourage your child to use their TREASURY to make notes if they wish.

I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU for all your support with introducing TREASURY books to the children. There was a fantastic response. Last Friday the children took turns to show and talk about their TREASURY book including some of their Talk Homework notes, they were so proud and excited to use them!

If you have access to the internet the following web site is great fun for the children to use!
http://www.gruffalo.com/

Big Talk Homework

Monday 12th March

Hogalo, Hawkalo, Badgalo?

Changing a Character

The children were so enthralled with Julia Donaldson's story 'The Gruffalo' that we have decided to continue with the story this week.

The children are to create a new character to replace the Gruffalo. Encourage your child to be as imaginative as possible! The character could be based on a real woodland creature, for example:

• badger
• hedgehog
• deer
• wild boar
• buzzard
• kestrel
• goshawk
• raccoon
• weasel
• stoat
• lynx
• toad
• rabbit
• ground beetle
• spider

  Please talk about the following:

• describe the extraordinary features the character has e.g. poisonous tongue
• What does the creature use it's extraordinary features for?
• How does it move?
• What sound does it make?
• a name for their creature, but it must end with 'alo'

On Friday the children will be writing a character description for their creature.

Have fun creating!



Julia Donaldson



Talk Homework

Monday 5th March

Over the next few weeks we will be learning about the children's author Julia Donaldson and our language work will be based on some of the different captivating stories that she has written.

I have included a list of some of her picture books, as many of the children in the class have already expressed that they have some of them at home. Her stories are full of rhythm and rhyme, and, if you haven't already read one, after you do you'll soon be able to re-tell them without reading the book! 

This week we will start with 'The Gruffalo'. Throughout the week we will be reading the story and watching the film. Our focus for writing on Friday is to create a comic strip of the story with speech bubbles.

The children will be taking home pictures of the main characters from the story. These can be cut out and used to re-tell the story in their own words. Focus on the character's spoken words when doing this.

Have fun, get the whole family involved, you could each be a different character!!!