Dosbarth Arian researched and explored Bulgaria and Dosbarth Gwyn researched and explored Finland.
'Shine' came into Dosbarth Arian to discuss self-esteem. They engaged with a few different activities and really enjoyed the self-esteem games.
Dosbarth Arian and Dosbarth Gwyn wanted to enter the 'Show racism the red' Cardiff City FC competition. In order to win and receive some fantastic prizes, we needed to create either a poem, poster, short story or artwork that promoted equality, diversity and friendship, whilst also saying no to racism. Theses are some of the beautiful work that was produced. The children loved working collaboratively.
Our class book links in nicely with our topic this term. 'Diary of a young naturalist' is a book based on the life of Dara, as a young, autistic boy living in Ireland. He finds a way to connect with the world through nature and discusses the challenges he faces.
Just by looking at the front cover of our class book, we used inference and deduction to depict what we thought about the book. We looked at the illustrations, title and the name of the author. We came up with some fantastic ideas.
We came up with a variety of structured sentences that we formed from using inference when analysing the front cover.
A very important aspect of our class story is the fact that the author and main character, has autism. We had a class discussion about what we believed autism was. We learnt a lot from one another, paticularly from the children in our class that are neurodiverse and/or children who had siblings that were neurodiverse.
Our five senses help us understand the world around us. Using the image of Pen Y Fan, the children had to describe what they believe they would be able to see, hear, smell, taste and touch, if they were in the setting.
The children then produced a descriptive piece of writing based on the same image and used the 5 senses work to support this.
Dosbarth Gwyn were given the choice as to where to sit or indeed lie down whilst completing their descriptive writing and also listened to calming, relaxing music.
Dosbarth Arian were given 'Bulgaria' as a country to explore. We looked at a number of things including simple greetings in Bulgarian, the flag, landmarks, currency and so much more. We wanted to link this day to our topic as it offered great oppertunities for cross-curricular activities. We researched the rainfall in both Wales and Bulgaria in 2024 and created a graph. We then analysed the data by answering questions relating to the data.
GOOGLE SLIDES
First of all we used our prior learning of Helwpw Heddiw Questions to create a dialogue yn Gymraeg in pairs. We had time to practise our conversation and then recorded our conversation on SeeSaw.
Our natural world is diverse and dynamic, influenced by processes and human actions.
In groups, we discussed what we thought the words diverse and dynamic mean. We came up with some fantastic ideas! We used envoying around the different tables in the class to pinch one idea, from each table, and gave an idea to each table, before feeding back as a class.
We used an Atlas to plot the Continents and Oceans of the world, followed by labelling the places, spaces and landforms in Wales.
We were given a variety of photos but we weren't told where they were taken and many of us could not believe how beautiful our country actually is with actual gasps from some! Following this task we were given the choice of researching and plotting on a map some of our own choices of landscapes in Wales.
On GOOGLE CLASSROOM
IN TOPIC BOOKS
Rainfall in Wales was compared to rainfall in Finland and we created a table and a graph on Google Slides.
Insert pastel drawings
We studied Vincent Van Gogh and we were given a variety of Van Gogh pictures to study. As a class we voted to recreate "Starry Night" 1889. It depicts the view from his asylum window in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, but with an imagined village and expressive, swirling brushstrokes that create a powerful contrast with the tranquil village below. The painting is currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. What do you think of our interpretations of Van Gogh's masterpiece?