Dosbarth Caernarfon

Nursery

Welcome to our class page

Class Teacher: Miss Kylie Lee

LSA: Mrs Sarah Carpenter

LSA: Mrs Laura Williams

LSA: Mrs Tammy Heggie

PE Day - Tuesday

Please ensure your child has jogging bottoms/shorts and a t-shirt.

Forest School Day - Wednesday

Pupils will need appropriate footwear/wellies (these can be left on your child's coat peg in school. Please ensure names are written on bags/tags/inside wellies.

Our topic this term is...

Once Upon a Time

Nurs Spring term 2022 letter to parents.docx.pdf

Home Learning

Here are a few ideas for home learning this week.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ORIwW1lshW9oLQb6FsTtb5CqyzHfn3XK7FGafj0vwyo/edit?usp=sharing

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle was built by Edward I on the site of a former Roman fortress and Norman fort in the 1280s to display English wealth and power over Wales. With its uniquely shaped towers and color-block brickwork, it is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Though the exterior is complete, the plans for the building’s interior were never fully finished. The castle also includes a museum dedicated to the Royal Welch Fusiliers army regiment.

reading diary parent info sheet.docx

Class Announcements

Newyddion

Please don't forget to enrol for Reception class in the Spring Term of Nursery.

All dinner money needs to be paid in advance using the ParentPay.

Homework-Gwaith cartref

Homework will be regularly uploaded to Seesaw. Seesaw ,Facebook and Twitter are our main platforms of communication. Please ensure you have access to these platforms.

Seesaw will be used to update you regularly on your childs educational journey.

Reading on a regular basis is so important; it helps us to develop our vocabulary store, our imagination, our fluency and expression. Please can you ensure your child is reading every night for 5-10 minutes.

RWI

Below are our RWI sounds and Rhymes. We will Focus on a sound a week. The children will be learning each sound through play. Please practise the sounds at home regularly.

Letter-formation-chart.pdf

Cymraeg

We promote Welsh language and culture at every opportunity in and around the school, see below for language patterns we are working on so that you can practice them at home.

Bore da, Prynhawn da, Nos da, Hwyl fawr

Good morning, Good afternoon, Goodnight, Goodbye

Dyma

Here is a

Dyma’r

Here is the

Dyma fi

Here I am

Ble mae [enw]? yma/absennol

Where is [name]? here/absent

Beth sy’ yn y bocs?

What’s in the box?

Pwy wyt ti? [Enw] ydw i.

Who are you? I am [name].

Sut wyt ti? Hapus, wedi blino, trist, bendigedig

How are you? Happy, tired, sad, wonderful

Barod?

Ready?

un, dau, tri, bant â chi!

one, two, three, off we go!

un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump

one, two, three, four, five

Pa liw ydy hwn?

Which colour is this?

coch, glas, melyn, gwyrdd, pinc

red, blue, yellow, green, pink

Sut mae’r tywydd?

How is the weather?

Heulog, bwrw glaw, gymylog, oer

sunny, raining, cloudy, cold

Beth wyt ti eisiau?

What do you want?

Ga i

Can I have a

Songs and rhymes

to learn:

https://audioboom.com/posts/783724-6-un-bys-dau-fys (Counting)

https://audioboom.com/posts/752193-4-mr-hapus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aw59C-89P8 (Mr Hapus)

https://audioboom.com/posts/750437-2-heno-heno (Sleep song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pIIRziNq7o

https://audioboom.com/posts/752104-3-can-yr-enfys?playlist_direction=forward (Colours)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fs5JB_b7E (colours)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I52fbzsfTxY (colours: Aderyn Melyn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_hrOAKTaM

(Clap, clap 1,2,3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3DW45WIXgY

(Pwy wyt ti?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYtEh4iUIP8 (counting 1-10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjZzVQOEj4 (weather)

http://welshnurseryrhymes.wales/Addysgol

tedi twt ar tywydd.mp4

Sut mae'r tywydd Tedi Twt? (The weather)

tedi twt yn siopa read.mp4

Tedi Twt yn siopa. (Shopping/food/asking and answering questions)

dillad tedi twt.mp4

Dillad Tedi Twt (Clothes)

tedi twt yn dost.mp4

Tedi Twt yn dost (Teddy Twt is ill)

ar y fferm tedi twt.mp4

Tedi Twt ar y fferm (The farm)

Picnic Tedi Twt.mp4

Picnic Tedi Twt (Little Ted gets ready for a picnic)

Here are some highlights of our school year 2019-2020

AUTUMN TERM 2019 with my clever class!

We are having a very busy term settling into our new class. We are learning our routines and now stay all day in the big school. Our theme is Let's Celebrate! We have been celebrating being back in school. We are also celebrating Harvest, birthdays, Divali and Christmas. Some of the stories we have enjoyed include 'Winnie's Amazing Pumpkin', 'Room on a broom' and 'The Little Red Hen'.

Thankyou families for your continued support. Diolch yn fawr. :)

Making Cawl and singing 'Mae dwr yn y cawl, yn y cawl.'

Adding leeks to the Cawl.

Adding carrots/moron to the cawl.

"Who will help me make my bread for the Harvest table?" Asked the Little Red Hen. I will said the Nursery.

We used ready mix bread mix to make real bread. It was easy to do and the children loved it. Find it in the flour aisle in the supermarket.

Making letters and numbers using our bread dough. Counting currents into our dough.

Letting the bread dough rest singing 'Heno Heno Hen plant bach' and using our sand timers to wait 5 minutes.

Ready to cook!

Who will help me eat the bread? We will said the Nursery.

Home made Pumpkin Soup and Bread. Yum Yum.

Bendigedig!

Making healthy fruit kebab wands for Winnie the Witch. Counting and making a pattern with our fruit.

Building a castle

Building a tttt tower

My delicious fruit kebab!

Cleaning our teeth.

One of our favourite story books, ' Room on a Broom'by Julia Donaldson. You can watch it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0102qfj/room-on-the-broom

We had to rescue and count the animals in their muddy swamp

Is there Room on a Broom for a witch like me?

(Halloween PTA party)

Counting, harvesting and preparing Pumpkins. Weighing and using vocabulary heavy and light with our Mud Kitchen.

learning to work and play together.

Following routines.

Story time.

Working together to use our thinking skills to complete a variety of jigsaws.

Creative time

Working together to make handprints for a display.

Lunch time

Learning to hold a pencil to draw and write.

Tasting items beginning with the letter sound 'm'. We described the taste using our senses to develop our vocabulary.

Using our wonderful school grounds to collect items for our Autumn walk.

Learning to programme the Beebot around a grid.

Using chalks to mark make letters, shapes, numbers and shadows. We also made hop scotch and snail trails.

Melting Fairtrade chocolate to make our edible, magic sparkling wands.

Guy Fawkes came to visit to teach us how to stay safe on Bonfire Night.

Learning to wash our hands.

Learning to put on my coat and do my zip.

I can do it myself and so I did.

Oh Oh, sut mae'r tywydd heddiw? Mae hi'n bwrw glaw. (What is the weather today? It is raining.)

SPRING TERM 2020

THEME: DINOSAURS! WE'RE NOT SCARED...

We used the book 'We're going on a bear hunt to model our own class book titled, 'We're going on a dinosaur hunt.'

Dinomania came to visit and we dressed as dinosaurs for the day.

Please stay safe and well. My thoughts are with you all at this difficult time. I hope the photos and resources included here support you. I was hoping to end the dinosaur theme with a dinosaur tea party linked to the story, 'The tiger who came to tea.' by changing the words to 'The dinosaur who came to tea'. We were going to make a dinosaur cake and write invitations to the tea party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPF96mqGtI (Make Long lasting play dough: By now pupils should be able to mould, sculpt and form simple shapes such as snails, figures, spiders. They can also make numbers, letters and simple words in the dough. Models can be cooked slowly in the oven to be painted with a mix of PVA glue and paint)

Songs and rhymes to learn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ (days of the week)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds (We're going on a bear hunt with Michael Rosen: Encourage your child to make up their own words as we did for the dinosaur hunt)

Useful websites for activities:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/ (lots of activities here but a printer would be useful to print cutting and sticking activities, writing patterns too) OFFER CODE: UKTWINKLHELPS

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/

http://www.communication4all.co.uk/HomePage.htm (Click Early Learning on the left hand side)

http://www.communication4all.co.uk/http/Foundation.htm

https://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/pigs/index.htm

https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/topic/

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2020/03/kids-nature-activities-self-isolation/

https://www.royalmint.com/kids?gclid=CjwKCAjw95D0BRBFEiwAcO1KDN1v05Rr8fO5V-_RzdyEjnH-_sRW4WjZ-5iH_iL44cUQAEK4-XoUYBoCQQ4QAvD_BwE

Brain break songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymigWt5TOV8 (Kids Zumba) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP0wgVhUC9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwT5oX_mqS0 (Shake your sillies out: Encourage your child to jump higher/jog faster, stretch higher, yawn long and short to develop vocabulary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69f9sCwhwYk (Boom chicka Boom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea4TVg0_8Dk (Tooty Ta Ta)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phQshPRLOjI (Easter Chicka Boom)

Dinomania came to visit!

We went on a dino dig and found real bones!

Looking for dinosaur bones.

The roofer found an egg on the Nursery roof!

We compared it to a hen's egg.

Dressing up as dinosaurs. RAAAARRRR!

Working together to write down what we want to learn and find out about dinosaurs.

We went searching for dinosaurs. I think I've found a T-rex tooth!

Making pancakes.

P for pancakes

Pupils mark making p for pancakes using writing icing.

Hometask St David's Day model making competition.

We lost our dinosaur in the woods somewhere and when we went back to look for it we found a real dinosaur!

Learning to play team games and use new vocabulary over and under.

We're not going on a dinosaur hunt again...

Number Formation Rhyme Cards.pdf

Let%92s Write Numbers.ppt

SUMMER TERM 2020

A typical school day begins with a healthy breakfast and the register followed by some Welsh songs and language patterns (see top section of this web page for ideas and activities. I have also recorded story telling of Tedi Twt). I'm sure the children would like to take the register in your home and play school: Write a list of who lives in your house. Sound out your names and pupils can draw a smiley face or draw a tick next to who is in the house. Don't forget any pets! :) Encourage the children to 'write' and to hold their pencil like a Prince or Princess (or to hold it like a crocodile)

2. Next, we have a chat about our feelings and any news that we want to share. This develops good talking, turn taking, listening and eye-contact skills needed for effective communication skills. (8.50-9.15am)

3. We will play together and learn to complete jigsaws and games. (30 mins) Pupil choice.

4. Read, write Ink: for half an hour: Check out the Ruth Miskin RWI site https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/ and

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks . Example: Shuffle letter cards masdtinp. call out a letter sound. Your child can 'splat the correct sound' using a plastic spoon for example. (In school we use plastic fly swatters)

Pupils always do a phonic recognition activity, writing the phonic sound and possibly blending the sounds/reading activity.

5. Tidy up time :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhw6JDF4A0Q and a brain break song.

6. Literacy activity

7. Healthy snack and play time (10.40am-11.10am) (Don't forget to sing Penblwydd Hapus twice while washing hands like doctors and nurses)

8. Maths time: Start with rhymes or songs such as the 5 little ducks in your pori Drwy Stori Pack.

9. Lunch time 12-1pm (Don't forget to sing Penblwydd Hapus twice while washing hands like doctors and nurses)

10. 1-1.15pm: Register. Encourage your child to recognise their name. Mix up name cards. Can they find their name?

11. 1.15-1.30pm: Assembly: RE/ moral ethical social story e.g. Aesop's Fables. sharing and caring songs and stories, kindness, good and bad choices, friendships.

1.30-2.40pm: The afternoon session is your choice of music, art, physical, science, nature, cooking, Welsh, geography, history, science or Computer based activities.

2.40-3.15: Tidy up time, play time.

Home time song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LDArAJf7-c&list=RD0LDArAJf7-c&start_radio=1

These are some of the skills your child needs to learn in readiness for Reception Class. If your child has learnt these skills: Congratulations! Please view Conwy and Pembroke class pages for further advice and activities or extend the skill for example learn the numbers to 20, recite the days of the week, start adding and taking away or count one more/ two more/one less.

All pupils are making progress. Please praise and be positive with your children to support their emotional wellbeing and development.

MATHS SKILLS: At the end of Nursery pupils are expected to be able to achieve these Outcome 2 skills.

I can count objects to 10.

I can say the numbers 0-10 forwards and backwards.

I can recognise numbers 0-10.

I can order the numbers 0-10.

I can sing number rhymes.

I can mark make or begin to write numbers.

I can draw around 2d shapes.

I can role play a shop.

I can name the 2d shapes (Triangle, rectangle, square, circle. If they can name these shapes move on to oval, hexagon etc)

I can name the 3d shapes (Cube, cuboid, pyramid, sphere, cylinder)

Make a pattern e.g. red, blue, red, blue. yellow, red, green, yellow, red, green using potato printing. Look for patterns. Make a number pattern 1,2,1,2,1,2.

Measure objects: Which is the heaviest/lightest, longest/shortest ?

Estimate a number e.g. how many raisins are in my hand? (without directly counting at first: have a guess then count how many.)

Some ideas and activities to help keep learning fun through play.

Make 3d models using shapes

Sing songs and rhymes.

Make hopscotch grid using chalks.

use buckets of water and brushes to paint numbers on fences or on a path.

play shop: (Pupils count the pennies)

Children love cardboard boxes to build houses/rockets/dens. Use shapes for windows, write numbers on the door, paint the box, build a rocket and count down to zero.

Paint numbers on stones and hide them around the home or garden. Pupils must find all the numbers and order them 0-10. Or write the numbers on paper and peg them on the washing line. Don't forget to count in Welsh too!

Pupils love playing hide and seek which is an ideal opportunity for pupils to count forwards or backwards.

Let your child help you lay the table for food.

Card games

Board games

dominoes

dice games

Sorting, matching, pairs games.

Opposites games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk9Yt1PqQiw (counting song 1-10 forwards and backwards)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trDl36m9pgA (Pumpkin song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm1qvX1ygOo (5 pumpkins sitting on a gate)

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/story_of_3/eng/Introduction/default.htm (Can also access through the Topmarks website. Pupils love playing these activities linked to each number from 1-9)

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/early-years-class-management/school-closure-home-learning-classroom-management-eyfs-early-years/maths-activities-school-closure-home-learning-classroom-management-eyfs-early-years

LITERACY SKILLS: Outcome 2

Follow 2 step instructions. e.g. 'fetch the book and sit on the carpet.'

Ask simple questions: what, why, where, who

Their understanding of basic concepts will include in, on, big, little, wet, dry, hot and cold.

Speak in sentences of 5 +words.

Sing songs and rhymes.

I can choose different kinds of simple reading materials and make meaning from pictures, hold books the correct way up and turn pages.

I can retell events or experiences and talk about what I have made or done in simple terms.

I can speak clearly with other children and familiar adults.

I can recognise differences and similarities in objects and visual and tactile stimuli and link objects and images with some spoken initial sounds. (Play I spy games, match objects to initial sound of a word. Pupils who can do this move on to identifying the end sounds in words then the middle sounds ready for blending)

I can recognise my name. (even when there is more than one word starting with the same sound e.g. Mason, Maxwell, Mallie, Mathew)

I am beginning to 'write' and talk about what I have written.
I can hold my pencil like a big boy or girl.
I can recognise some spoken sounds.
I can name the colours. I can name animals, vehicles. I can describe objects using all my senses.

SUPERHERO PLANNING : 20/04/2020

VID-20200419-WA0000.mp4

Superhero Nursery plans1.docx

cfe-ss-83-people-who-help-us-nursery-mini-home-learning-topic_ver_5.pdf

t-t-5053-who-can-help-me-interactive-powerpoint-_ver_4.pptx

nursery-foundation-stage-1-visual-timetable.pdf

Being Helpful Song.pdf

I Spy spring time.pdf

There Are Lots of People to Help Us Song.pdf

t-t-5456-people-who-help-us-equipment-sorting-activity--_ver_4.pdf

https://www.thenational.academy/reception/maths/finding-one-more-than-a-given-number-reception-wk1-3/

https://www.thenational.academy/reception/english/the-three-little-pigs-reception-wk1-2/

Some ideas to keep you going if needed...

https://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/family/things-to-do-with-kids-66855
Do a puzzle: jigsawpuzzlesdirect.co.uk
treasure hunt: Plan a treasure hunt and hide clues around the house or garden. Use vocabulary such as high/low, in front/behind, above/below, beside
Encourage your child to draw/write/paint about their day. Keep a diary.
Paper plate weaving: Hole punch the centre and around the edges of the plate. Use Yarn/laces for your child to weave in and out
Play noughts and crosses.
Take a walk in your garden with paper/crayons and trace the bark of a tree or leaves. (leaf rubbings)
Grow some seeds.
Press flowers to use in creative work. https://www.proflowers.com/blog/how-to-press-flowers
Hide and seek: Write a list of all the things you would like your child to find e.g. a wooden spoon, a pair of socks, small toys, a blade of grass and give them a box or bag to collect the items. Talk about the items. Count them. Play I spy with my little eye something beginning with...
Help around the house. Children love to be given jobs to do and to feel important. Ask them to pair up socks, stack the tins, hang out washing, help in the garden.
Challenge: To draw everything they see outside their bedroom window. Label their drawings.
What's inside the bag? Beth sy yn y bag? Put objects inside a bag. Pupils have to guess what the object is by touch alone. You could give clues to extend their vocabulary.
Play memory games: Choose a variety of objects/shapes/number cards etc. Your child covers their eyes and you take one object away. Can your child think what is missing. To make it more difficult use 7-10 objects and take away more than one object.
Make a parachute for your toys.
Have a quiz night: Make up questions on different subjects such as nursery rhymes, dinosaurs, superheroes or fairytales. Who will be the winner? You could also do name that tune.
Make a musical instrument. Develop rhythm and copying a pattern. Count the beats you can hear.
Set challenges: Boys can be especially competitive and love a challenge. Tick off each challenge they achieve. bounce a ball 10 times, hop 12 times...
Paint with water
Use your teddies and toys to put on a puppet show.
Do a torchlight wildlife hunt. Children love to play with torches and magnets too.
Make gloop: 2 cups of cornflour in a large bowl. A few drops of food colouring if you so wish. Pupils use a jug of water and add it to the flour. As you mix it will get gloopier and gloopier. Great for sensory play and mark making with a simple dough tool/end of a brush/stick.
Freeze a toy or coin in ice: Encourage your child to think of ways of how to rescue their toy or get the coin. Use a timer to count how long it takes to rescue the toy.
Grow a carrot top jungle: Keep your carrot tops. Place in a saucer with their cut edges down. Fill the saucer with a few millimeters of water and watch as, over the next few days, the tops begin to sprout. Soon you'll have a mini jungle for your figures to explore.
Have a house party: Decide on a date and time for your party and send everyone in your house invitations. Ask everyone to wear their best party clothes. On the day of the party decorate the room with home made paper bunting. play party games such as pass the parcel, musical bumps, dance and freeze, karaoke. Then have a party tea with a homemade Fairtrade chocloate cake of course!

T-T-26693-Daffodil-Biscuits-Recipe.pdf

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/programmes-and-campaigns/poridrwystori/nursery/

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ (reading books)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBzNnSSxds (Set 1 RWI pure phonic sounds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6OiU2h3sUI (Set 1 RWI sound cards and pronounciation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB6SvZscxgg (set 1 RWI sounds longer version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogMY6FBrAo (Blending sounds to make simple words satipn)

Cut up sound cards and pupils make words. It's important for the children to be able to move the cards around to make words. Magnetic or sponge letters are also good to achieve this skill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmUXOzQGjU (Alphablocks blend the letters: It's important to talk to your child and reinforce the reading in these programmes. Pause and stop the programme as you work through it. Think of other words that rhyme e.g. man, dan, fan, pan, mat, cat, fat, sat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeOOB-GVOyI (formation of letters c a d o g q)

Mr_Tongue speech sounds.pptx

Children who have difficulty saying the sounds try using this powerpoint. Make sure your child looks at your lips and over emphasise the sound. Young children often confuse hearing the sound 'th' and 'f', 'b' and 'd', 't' and 'd', 's' and 'sh'. This may affect their spelling skills later on so I think it's best to help your child to hear the sounds clearly from an early age. At Coed-y-Dderwen we do not 'shwar' the pure sounds. We never add an 'uh sound when pronouncing the sounds.

b is not "buh", c is not "cuh", t is not "tuh" and so on. P is a quiet sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBzNnSSxds

I hope you are all keeping well. I miss you all dearly and I hope you have lots of ideas here to keep your busy ones happy and learning through lots of fun activities.

Remember boys and girls to be good, look after each other and help your families. Always listen carefully to your family and stay safe.

Be kind and don't forget sharing is caring.

Remember our class rules also apply at home:

Kind heart, gentle hands, soft feet.

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