Autumn term
Welcome to Dosbarth Cadno's Autumn Learning journey. We hope you enjoy watching your little Cadno's grow and explore.
We were so happy to be invited to the DVLA in Swansea today to help launch their new charity partner for next year. The children sang some of their lovely concert songs and of course loved meeting Santa 🎅.
For our first educational visit of he year we attended the lovely St Fagans to complete the Gwalia stores workshop. We have been focusing on money in the class and the children thoughrally enjoyed learning about how much items cost in the past. We then went for an explore around the Museum to see the other wonderful building they have.
During our outdoor learning session, we spent time planning out some den building ready for next week’s session. We looked for suitable location, what we would need to build and how we would build our dens.
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Last term we did a lot of Gymnastic work during PE and we will be continuing that this term, but to start the term off we played some games and practiced our listening skills. We played the remote control game where each part of the control has a different the class need to concentrate on and the class favourite game Farmers 🧑🌾 and Wolves 🐺. We had a lot of fun on our first PE session on the year.
Welcome back!
We hope you had a lovely Half-Term.
As it was the last day of term we had the lovely guys from 'SoFit' come out to do some fitness with our class. What a lovely way to end an excellent half term! 😀
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This year for ‘National recycling day’ ♻️ we had an amazing Trasion show and everyone looked amazing! Later in the day we created some robots in the class using recycled items.
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Here are some pictures from our classroom activities this week This week we have focused on where full stops and capital letters belong. Here are also some pictures of our lovely Pumpkin carving competition. Well done to everyone who took part! They looked so Scary!
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Question of the week (19.10):
"Drum on the table with your fingers. Did you make music?"
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Question of the week (12.10):
"Can animals be sorry?"
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Here is a video of Dosbarth Cadno performing at the schools Harvest assembly. They were all so professional! Da iawn pawb!
Harvest assembly.mov
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Question of the week (05.10):
"Do too many children's stories have happy endings?"
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Similarly to last week we spent the morning building some Habitats for different animals. The children worked in their groups to build their homes and to present to everyone else what the animals need to survive and thrive. This time we spent time in the week researching what each animal would need. We swapped the animals around and went to build their habitats. Each group used last week’s examples as inspiration but were able to build a completely new and unique habitat.
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We have had a lovely week concentrating on poems and rhyming words. We looked at how and why some words rhyme. It has been fun finding the matches and creating our own sets of words.
Some of the class independently decided they wanted to explore how long the Kinect’s could stretch and they created a snake through and out of the class. Others built a lovely bridge and we used different items in the class to see how much weight it could hold. Once we had done this we explored ways to improve the design.
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Question of the week (28.09):
"Can you cheat if you don't know the rules?"
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Today we spent the morning building some Habitats for different animals. As our current topic concentrates on 'what is home and what it looks like' we decided that we would try and build a home for a Polar bear 🐻❄️, Fox 🦊, Monkey 🐵 and an Elephant 🐘. The children worked in groups to build their homes and to present to everyone else what the animals need to survive and thrive. Da Iawn!
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Question of the week (21.09):
"What are thoughts made of?"
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Here are some of the images from this weeks classroom activities.
We have been concentrating on Place value in maths. We have been identifying the Units and Tens in a double digit number and splitting them to understand how a number is built.
We have also been completing art in the class. (See below post for the finished product).
The class have also been doing some Yoga to help them relax in the morning and to prepare them for a full day.
Autumn art
We have been using our collection of leaves and sticks from last weeks Outdoor learning session to create art this week. The class have created an amazing gallery of 'Cadno's'. Da iawn dosbarth. 👏
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This term we will be concentrating on two books within our topic:
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'Can I Build Another Me?' by Shinsuke Yoshitake - an illustrated book for children that asks the question of what is it that makes me me. When a small boy decides to make another version of himself he must first identify what makes him him before he can build the bot.
We will be focusing on how each person is unique qualities and how these can be shaped by our communities. We will look at how these unique qualities make us special in such a diverse world.
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'Life Savers: Spend a day with 12 real-life emergency service heroes' by Eryl Nash - This uplifting picture book showcases the amazing work our frontline staff do, the incredible skills they have and the important equipment they need to save a life, in a unique graphic novel-inspired non-fiction format.
This non-fiction book will be used to look at the special people that make up our local and wider communities.
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Today was our first outdoor learning session and we spent time exploring our incredible grounds and looking at the different trees we have. We also started collecting leaves to create art next week. The class loved exploring and finding creatures and plants.
