Knowledge and Understanding- Wash Day

We have been finding out about a wash day in the past.

We had a wash day in school and used scrubbing boards and brushes to wash and clean clothes and other objects.

It was a lot of hard work but lots of fun too!

We compared the past with the present and we talked about how washing has changed. We used our ICT skills to put the stages of a wash day in the correct order. We also drew the stages in our books.

Creative Development - Snowflake Dance

Snowflake Dance- We moved to the music as a snowflake. We had to swirl and twirl gently and slowly. We remembered to change direction and form into a snow ball when the music stopped.

We watched the videos in class and evaluated our performances. What did we do well? What do we need to improve for next time?

Creative Development

Making apple crumble

After we peeled the apples we put the peels and left overs in the compost bin.

We mixed the ingredients together.

We tasted the apple crumble- it was delicious!

Creative Development - Snow White Dance

Marching

Cooling down and stretching

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs stimulus - linking two actions together and using the term 'halt'.

Creative Development - Snow White Dance

Our focus in dance this week was to 'halt'.

We warmed up and practiced halting by marching to Men of Harlech.

We then created a dance together using this week's fairytale

'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' as a stimulus. We had to listen

carefully to the music to know when our actions should change.

Creative Development - Snowflake Dance

Last week in dance we listened to a poem about a snowflake, and talked about the recent snowy weather! Using this as inspiration, we thought about how a snowflake would travel - gently, slowly, quietly, softly, swirling. We danced like a snowflake to Aled Jones' Walking in the Air.

We then thought about our ending, as we landed on the ground, and decided that we would continue the snowflake's journey by creating a snowball. We decided to begin our dance by moving on the spot, then get gently carried by the wind and begin to travel.

The three little pigs

Our story last week was The Three Little Pigs, and we were

very busy doing lots of different activities.

We used potato stamps and different materials to

create pictures of the three little pigs and their houses.

We had fun re-telling the story by putting on puppet shows.

We created characters from the story using playdough.

In our small world area we had the three main materials

from the pigs' houses - bricks, sticks and straw.

We worked together to create our own story of

The Three Little Pigs using the laptop and interactive whiteboard.

Spring Term Overview - Fairytales

Language, Literacy and Communication:

• Re-telling stories / news
• Character profiles
• Play scripts
• Dictionary / alphabetical order
• Rhyming poems
• Story writing/ story endings
• Role-play / Hot- seating
• Reading and spelling high frequency words
• Recap Jolly Phonic spelling
• Grammar - capital letters, sentences, common nouns, proper nouns, plurals, a/an
• Handwriting

Mathematical Development

• Recognising number names
• Counting in 10's from a 1 digit number
• 1 / 10 more /less
• Adding 10's
• Ordinal numbers
• Comparing and ordering numbers
• weight- heavy / light
• Addition facts - 7, 8, 9 and 10
• Subtraction
• Positional language
• 3D shapes- recognition and properties
• Time - o'clock
• Tables

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

• Naming and sorting materials
• Transparent, translucent, opaque
• Magnets
• Waterproof materials
• Pushes and pulls
• Wash day in the past
• Electrical appliances comparing now/ then
• Life of Florence Nightingale
• Comparing locality / homes
• Easter story

ICT

• Using a word processor
• Recording sounds- Tuff Cam, microphone
• Create labels
• Create posters
• Sorting objects
• Using a word bank

Creative Development

• Clay models
• Junk modelling
• Half finished pictures
• Printing
• Collage
• Dance - respond to a story stimulus
• Link and perform contrasting actions
• Music -explore pulse and rhythm
• Identify and recognise beat, rhythm and pitch
• Make apple crumble
• Design a pair of shoes
• Easter and Mother's day cards

Physical Development

• Roll a ball accurately
• Travel in a variety of ways
• Bowl at different speeds and directions
• Bounce a ball
• PESS-Gymnastics
• Weaving
• Digging / planting

PSD, WB & CD

• Talk about feelings and emotions positively
• Set simple goals
• Mothering Sunday
• Winter walk
• Lives of children in other countries
• Welsh identity

Welsh Language Development

• Weather
• Verbs
• Commands
• Likes / dislikes

Communication Skills- Re-telling a Story

This week, we've been reading the story, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'. We had fun using masks to re-tell the story.

Knowledge and Understanding - Material Hunt

We went on a material hunt around the school.