Welcome to the Spring Term! We are very much looking forward to welcoming back dosbarth Draenog back to school after a restful Christmas break. Please see below of a notice with a slight change to our usual routine in Reception 

After the Christmas holidays, book changing will move from Monday to Wednesday. This means that children will now bring home new reading books every Wednesday instead of Monday.  Please continue to support your child by sharing their reading book regularly at home and enjoying reading time together. 

Week 1

Welcome back Draenog's! It has been lovely to see you all in class the last few days. We have enjoyed being together again and learning about lots of lovely things! We have particularly enjoyed telling each other stories from our 2 weeks off  Just look at how many recognition cards were given out on Thursday, what a great start to our new term!

Here we are, finally (after all of the snow and ice!), enjoying some time exploring outdoors! During Wednesday morning (7th of Jan), we enjoyed exploring the differences outdoors now that everything is melting. We were able to play with our friends and enjoy some time on the equipment we have 

Our PE sessions this term, will focus on striking and fielding games. Our session today (8th Jan) focused on simply throwing a beanbag carefully using under arm skills. We began by playing games as a warm up and then worked together to practise our throwing skills. We enjoyed working in pairs to practise throwing the beanbag carefully towards each others feet to make sure we were all being safe and respectful. Da iawn pawb!

Week 2

During our maths sessions with Mrs Myatt this week (January 15th and 16th), we have been focusing on 4 sided shapes. We have been naming, identifying and sorting different squares and triangles. Here we are finding different things around our classroom that are in the shape of a rectangle or a square. 

Some of us got very excited today (Jan 15th) and we turned into a band and did a performance for Mrs Myatt! Whilst Mrs Myatt was sat with a small focus group, she was very surprised to be greeted with the performance of the year!! The children all chose different materials to transform themselves and enjoyed their photoshoot! We have some STARS in Dosbarth Draenog! 

This week (Jan 15th and 16th), we continued our work on shapes with 4 sides with Mrs Myatt. We used what we knew about squares and triangles and began by searching our classroom for things with 4 sides. We then used different sized squares and rectangles to design different sized buildings with the shapes. These activities helped us solidify our understanding of squares and triangles but also apply this to a real life scenario with another focus on our fine motor and pencil control skills. 

In Dosbarth Draenog, we really do love learning about each other and how special we all are. With Mrs Myatt this week, we did a lesson focusing on valuing each other's similarities and differences. With this, we then went away and designed a sheet 'All About Me' and shared some interesting facts about ourselves. It was lovely to see so many interesting facts and stories from each of our Draenog's  We will now use this work to create a book All About Us that we will have in class to share and develop throughout the year! See some pictures below of some of us completing the activity. 

During our focus group sessions with Mrs Myatt (Friday Jan 16th), we have been learning all about how a seed turns into a lovely plant! We have listened to lots of different stories and here are some of us drawing how we think it happens! 

Here are some lovely pictures of our lovely Draenog's in our play based learning in the classroom! Lots of collaborative play seen this week which has been lovely! Mrs Myatt particularly enjoyed water play this week (Jan 15th and 16th). Diolch pawb!

Week 3

During this week (Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd January) we have been learning all about celebrating Dydd Santes Dwynwen and how important it is to show love to everyone around us. We enjoyed working with Miss Highland to complete an activity based on cutting and sticking to make a card filled with love. We chose lots of different hearts, flowers, Welsh love spoons, or even pictures of Santes Dwynwen to decorate our own unique card. Some of you may have even received a small card when we got home! 

On Friday January 23rd, we started by using our Monster Phonics sounds to write about flowers and plants and what we notice. Mrs Myatt was very proud of all of us for beginning to form our letters and use the sounds we know to write different words independently. Da iawn pawb! Here is a few pictures of some of us completing the task. 

A lovely end to the week (January 23rd) in Draenog class, here are lots of pictures of us playing together around the classroom and what we got up to this week! We have enjoyed building together, playing in the home corner, reading stories and writing lots of CVC words. Mrs Myatt is very proud of you all 

Week 4

Mrs Myatt has enjoyed this morning (Jan 29th) very much! We were very lucky to be given some incredible resources for our classroom from a Digital course Mrs Myatt attended and the boys and girls have LOVED experimenting with them! Our favourite toy was the coding car which we named Bert. The children enjoyed exploring the different elements of the game and enjoyed wondering which mat made the car go in which direction. Here are some pictures and the most exciting video! Excellent team work everyone 

Lots of playing this morning in all of the areas in our classroom! We all played nicely and showed excellent manners throughout the session! Mrs Myatt was very proud! We particularly enjoyed using the Bingo Dabbers to mark make on our sounds we have been learning in Monster Phonics!

Thank you to Mrs Rees and Milo the Reading dog for paying us a visit on Friday Jan 30th! We were very lucky and fortunate to learn all about appropriate touch around dogs and why and where they may not like being touched. We had lots of excellent answers and discussions! I was very proud of brave everyone was to give Milo a lovely touch! He loved it just as much as us 

This week in maths, we have been focusing on the number 0! This concept has been enjoyed by everyone in Draenog's! Here are a couple of pictures of us hard at work. 

Here's a selection of pictures of us playing in and outside our classroom on Thursday and Friday (29th and 30th) of January. We are enjoying especially playing with the coding car and working as a team together. Mrs Myatt has enjoyed playing with the new toys too!

Week 5

In maths this week, we have been learning to represent numbers 1 to 5! Here are some pictures of some of us with Mrs Myatt showing our representations in our books. We enjoyed collecting items in groups of different numbers and practising our number formation. 

Our writing and drawing skills are really developing in class! On Friday February 6th, we have been writing and drawing the things we like to see in beautiful flowers and plants! So many lovely creations 🌸💐🌻

This term, we have been learning all about Living Things! This afternoon (Friday February 6th, we all came together to complete a sorting activity. During the task, we sorted pictures of items into different categories! Our categories were plants, animals, humans and things. We talked all about what plants and animals need to survive and why things we have don’t need anything? For example, a tooth brush doesn’t need water to survive like a flower! Super team work! Mrs Myatt was VERY proud 👏🏼

Lots of fun pictures of us playing this week! Lots of great collaboration and lovely play with our friends. Mrs Myatt particularly enjoyed our excellent builds in the large construction 🧱👷🏻‍♀️👷🏾

When we come into school, we all enjoy checking in and choosing our dinner choices! A new thing we are doing is a Book Vote 📚 our teachers choose two books for us to vote for! The winning book is then read at the end of the day. In this picture, Mrs Myatt chose some books that help our Emotional Literacy which is something we are learning about this term!  

Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate winner this week 🏅👏🏼✨ our learners were chosen for excellent perseverance during Monster Phonics sessions and for being incredible ambitious, capable learners! We are all very proud of them! 

One of our favourite times of the day is our physical sessions where we enjoy moving our bodies and letting lots of our energy out! Here are some videos of us dancing in the class on Friday afternoon! 👏🏼🕺🏻

Week 6

During maths this week, we have been focusing on really having a deeper understanding with our numbers to 5. We can all confidently count to 5, forwards and backwards but we wanted to really underrated the value and how we could represent the numbers. We used the multilink blocks with Mrs Myatt to make number towers. We noticed when the number is bigger, the tower grows! We also noticed adding 1 more each time made a new number. Da iawn Draenogs ✨👏🏼

Thank you to Piper for bringing this lovely picture to show us what you’d been doing at home 🥰 we are very proud of your drawing and your super writing! 

An excellent time playing outside with Miss Highland and Mrs Quick this week! We have enjoyed making potions, running around and using the equipment we are so lucky to have! 

To consolidate our learning of numbers and the value of 0-5 we have been painting this week! Here is the start of our Number Block characters! We printed the numbers using our blocks we used to make towers! On Thursday, Mrs Myatt will help us add the details we need 😊😊

Lots of fun this week playing in class! So many lovely creations, games and smiles in our classroom 🫶🏼

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Starting our day with Physical sessions really help us get into the mind frame for learning! We have enjoyed some dancing sessions with the scares using big and small movements whilst moving to music🕺🏻👏🏼

As a part of Children’s Mental Health Week, we were very lucky to visit the new park today by the Leisure Centre 🛝 we walked up so well, listened and played beautifully! Mrs Myatt was the proudest teacher in the World!!✨👏🏼 thank you for a lovely half term boys and girls 🥰✨