Could the dragon live in a castle?

We discussed what we knew about dragons and came to the conclusion that our baby dragon (which we named Vashka by the way in a class vote!) had come from a castle, based on the clues given by her mum. We decided that it would be a good idea to research castles...so that is what we did using the interactive white board...here are some pictures of us at work...   

What's been happening in Dosbarth Ellifant this week?!

An arrow with a scroll? Egg shell pieces? A note? Who is this all from?!

We thought about all the clues very carefully and decided that the note was from a dragon! After reading the note, we went outside to search for the baby dragon!

 The remains of a dragon's nest...

 Off in search of the baby dragon again!

 We've found her!

 Further instructions to go back to the classroom to the iPad...

Back at the classroom we saw a message from the baby dragon's mum...she was so pleased we found her baby and is trusting us to look after her and send her back to their home...but where do they live?!

Welcome and welcome back!

Well what a busy week we all had!

Some of the nursery children joined us this week so 'Hello and welcome to Dosbarth Eliffant'! All the children have settled in and back into school routine incredibly well and we're all very proud of them for doing so well on their first week back.

Here are a few pictures of what we have been getting up to this week:

 Work in progress!

 We changed a 'boring' poem into a an interesting one by adding 'wow' words...

A session of Vgotsky's construction maths...This one was very tricky! The children had to work out using only the blocks given, how to make 3 chairs and 3 beds suitable for the 3 bears - they had to think about different sizes (develop an awareness of scale), work together as a team and problem solve!