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Monday 19th January

 

 

To continue with the castle theme this week the children will be writing a poem entitled 'Five Things Found in a Castle's Wall'. Last week we focused on the features of the castle itself, for our poem this week we will be focusing on the items or people found in a castle.

 

Please spend time talking about different items (nouns) using wow words to describe it, such as:

 

• solid gold plate
• shattered clay pot
• shiny jewelled covered goblet
• blunt sword

What a fantastic week we have had in Dosbarth Coala! The children have settled back after Christmas superbly and have set to work straight away.  We received a message of Monday from King Matholwch from the traditional Welsh story Branwen.  He has asked for our help!  We have to hold a healthy banquet for all the characters from traditional tales so they can all resolve their problems and finally live in harmony.

Here we are working in groups to complete our KWL grids on what we wanted to learn this term during our new topic 'Tales and Castles'.

As part of our new topic 'Tales and Castles' we decided we wanted to find out about the different features of a castle so we set to work using two Internet sites and lots of books to find out many interesting facts. Some choose to record their notes in table, others drew their own spider diagram and some even produced a detailed fact file!!! We are now in the middle of using these facts to write our own non-chronological reports!!!

Our P4C session this week was based on the story of Branwn and the question the children wanted to discuss was 'Should Branwen have married someone she didn't love?' Here we are talking about the ideas in the story, creating the questions, voting or our favourite and discussing our chosen question.

And last but not least Mrs Howells has let us design and make our own castle role play area and what fun we had on Friday!!! Enjoy the pictures below.

 

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Monday 12th January

 

 

 

This week we will be writing an acrostic poem using the word CASTLE. Last week the children were busy learning about the features of a castle which will help them when creating their poem.

 

Please spend time talking about:

• the different features of the castle using it's correct name
• think of words to describe it's size, appearance and function
• how you could also use short phrases or sentences for some of the letters





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Monday 3rd November

 

As this week most children will be watching a fireworks display, on Friday we will be writing a Safety Rules poster for other children to keep themselves safe during this time.

Please spend time discussing the following:

· the different types of fireworks e.g. rockets, Catherine wheels, sparklers and what happens when they are lit

· what to do when you are given a sparkler and when it goes out

· what to do when watching fireworks e.g. stand well back, never go near a firework if it hasn't gone off, never pick a used firework up

· Who should or is allowed to handle fireworks?

· Where should fireworks be kept?

· How can we keep our pets safe during this time?

When talking about keeping safe and thinking of safety rules encourage your child to use bossy words to start each rule for example, Never.. Keep… Don’t… Always… Hold… Stay… Stand… etc.

 

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Monday 6th October

 

This week we will be learning about the Jewish festival of Sukkot.

During the week the children will listen to the story of Sammy Spider’s First Sukkot, then on Friday we will be re-telling the story.

Inside, outside, upside down! Where is Sammy Spider now? Swinging on an apple, from the roof of the Shapiro family's sukkah, he is learning about the Jewish festival of Sukkot. Sammy watches carefully as Josh and his  parents build and decorate the little hut. Then as a special treat, Sammy even gets to sleep there under the stars!

If you have access to the internet below is a link to listen to the story.

http://blip.tv/jbs/story-time-sammy-spider-s-sukkot-5866732

Please spend time talking about:

· The events in sequence using time openers such as First, Next, Then, After that, In the evening, Finally…

· Why do they build Sukkah’s?

· The items used to build and decorate the Sukkah e.g. vibrant fruits, wooden beams…

· What is a Lulav?

· Why was Josh shaking a Lulav?

 

 

 

 



Dosbarth Kangaroo invite you to their Class Assembly!

 



 

 




On Thursday 23rd October we shall be celebrating Harvest at Ffynnon Taf. Our assembly starts at 9.15 a.m. Please ensure you arrive at least 5 minutes before hand. We hope you can join us for this celebration!

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Monday 8th September

 

On Friday we shall be writing a Thank You letter to Cefn Mably Farm.

 

After our visit please take time to talk about:

· their favourite part of the farm and why?

· the different types of animals they saw

· what they found out about the farm animals

·  Which animals would they consider having in their own mini farm for Mr Park?

 

We hope you enjoyed our visit and have lots to share and talk about with your parents!