Potatoes

This week we harvested the potatoes we had planted.

We dug them up, washed them weighed them and ate them.

They were delicious!

Sunflowers

We are having a sunflower growing competition. First we decorated our own flower pots then we filled them with soil, put in some sunflower seeds and watered them. After a few days all of the sunflower seeds have grown. Some are bigger than others, we have taken them home to replant and see if we can grow a beautiful sunflower. We are going to bring in photographs in September to see who has the best and biggest sunflowers. Look at us planting them in our photos below.

Bob the Builder

We have been trying out some new toys and seeing how we can be just like Bob the Builder.

We all had to make sure we were wearing hard hats and high visibility vests just like real builders. Then we used tape measures to measure and recorded sizes and also wrote a list of the things we would need to get for our building projects.

Finally we built our buildings.

Take a look at some of our photographs to see us in action.

Minibeasts

We have been learning about mini beasts. We have learned some new songs including “What a beast” and “Spider spins”. We played games and had to try to identify the mini beast when given different clues. We used the information we had learned to be the author and illustrators of our own books about mini beasts.

We have made some dragon flies and had to design their bodies and weave ribbon into their wings to create some patterns. Take a look at some of our photos showing how we worked to find out about mini beasts and some of our beautiful finished dragonflies.

Our Energetic visit to Ynysangharad Park

The children from Mrs Ward’s Class visited Ynysangharad Park to explore their physical development. As part of the curriculum the children should take part in adventurous and physical play. What better place to accept the challenge than the playground in Ynysangharad Park? The children were able to explore and develop many skills including their coordination, become knowledgeable about spatial awareness and relationships such as behind, underneath, below, over, under and on top of and explore a different outdoor learning environment, develop confidence and use a different range of large apparatus.

But most of all they had great fun!

The children’s behaviour was outstanding well done to all of them.

A big thank you to the adults who came with us .

I think it is safe to say that a lot of energy was used up and the walk back took us all a lot longer!

Take a look at some of our photographs.

Our trip to Bristol Zoo

We went on a visit to explore Bristol Zoo and were amazed to find dinosaurs there. We found out about lots of different animals. One of our favourite was the gorillas and we watched them for ages playing with a football and climbing trees and ropes. We went under water and explored penguins and seals swimming through tunnels. The lion cubs were adorable. We loved feeding the lorikeets when they landed on us. There were so many things to see and do that by the end of the visit we were exhausted and our journey home was very quiet. Take a look at some of our photographs.

Dinosaur Hunt

We have been exploring dinosaurs. We found out lots of different facts. We enjoyed listening to stories about Harry and his bucket full of Dinosaurs and Dinosaurs love underpants .We used marbling techniques to make dinosaur skins and found out our real dinosaur names. But best of all we have used all the equipment in our exploration area to go on a dinosaur hunt.

Now we are busy exploring the zoo, we are looking forward to telling you all about that very soon.