Christmas comes early to Dosbarth Eliffant

We have been working really hard to design our Chnstmas cards and we are so proud of the results! We  hope that lots of mummys and daddys will buy them to give to our family and friends. We are also excited about our trip to go and see Santa at the Rhondda Heritage Park. Ho Ho Ho... Christmas comes earlier every year!

Elephants settle in

Welcome to Dosbarth Eliffant! We have all settled into our new class and written our new class chant.
'The Happy elephants have come to stay
At Ffynnon Taf to work and play
We care and share all through the day
Helping each other in every way!'
When we are together, we remember to care and share. to be happy and kind and to work together. Most importantly, elephants never forget to try their best! Elephant promise!

New Friends!!!!!!

This week we have had six new children in our class and the bigger girls and boys have worked extremley hard at making them feel welcome and being good friends with them.

Royal Wedding

We looked at the royal wedding that happened when out mums were little. Princess Diana and Prince Charles got married a long time ago (in 1981). We lookoed at  how people would have watched it on television with no remote control and had street parties to celebrate. We also re-created the royal carriage that the prince and princess travelled in. Don't we look majestic!

The Queen of Hearts made some tarts....

For the past two weeks, all our learning has been based around the nursery rhyme 'The Queen of Hearts'.  The children have been developing their vocabulary by using 'WOW' words in our speaking and writing activities. We made 'splendid, divine, magnificent and luscious jam tarts' and the poor queen suffered an 'emergency' in her castle when her tarts burned and caused a fire. What a disaster! The children loved role playing calling the fire brigade to save the palace.We have also been giving each other compliments as we want 'kind hearts' just like the queen herself!

We are taking a change of direction this week as we will be looking at a royal wedding 'When Mum was a little girl' (Prince Charles and Lady Diana). If you have any souvenirs of the date e,g, tea towels, spoons, mugs etc that you would be willing for the children to look at (nothing too valuable), then please let me know. I would particularly like photographs of street parties that took part around the date as we will be arranging our own street party in school to celebrate Prince William and Kate's wedding later on in the term. It would also be nice if parents would come and talk about their memories of Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding to develop the children's listening and speaking skills. If you can help our with any of the above then please let me know.

Let's celebrate!

We will be taking a break from our 'Tiaras and towers, crowns and gowns' topic to celebrate Chinese New Year! We will be learning how Chinese people celebrate the festival as well as experiencing some of the culture. We will be preparing our home corner by cleaning, decorating and preparing food. We are very lucky to receive a visit form Xiaoli Bigg's mum who has kindly offered to come and cook for the children to taste authentic chinese cooking on Thursday. Photos to follow. If you have anything at home that could contribute to this topic then please let me know.

Winter!

We have been learning about winter since we got back from the Christmas holidays. We made cold pictures -using  a ruler to mark out the papers, panting using whites, greys, silvers and blues. Finally, we made marks using dots, lines zig zags and circles using marker pens.
We had a big block of ice - it felf so cold and smooth. When we looked closely we could see lines inside it. We tried to break it - but it was hard. We then put on safety goggles and got hammer s we could try and break it - what hard work!