Class photos

Just a few photos to show you what we have been up to over the last couple of weeks.

We had lots of fun making and testing our windmills. Most of them went round!  

We've also been out splashing in puddles in the rain. We know where rain comes from now.

 We've already learnt three new sounds this term - sh, th, and ch. Here we are making playdough 'ch'

objects.

 We all made a clock to help with telling the time. I hope you are all using them at home!

 We had fun sorting classroom objects in different ways. We thought about shape, size and colour when we were sorting. 

Here we are in our Weather studio. Very serious stuff!

I hope you've enjoyed looking at these pictures!

Congratulations to Keiran Jones who was our Seren Yr Wythnos this week. Fabulous spelling Keiran!

See you all tomorrow.

Mrs Utting-Lawson

All Sorts Weather Reports!

Well our new role play area is nearly up and running. We have a weather map with symbols, headphones, microphone, telephone, a globe and a camera! The children are enjoying playing in the studio and it's lovely to hear the children saying 'Lights, Camera, Action' before launching into their UK and world weather reports! We are still looking for an old computer if anyone can help plus smart clothes for our budding Forecasters to wear.

We are also looking for donations of old fabric for our 'Whatever You Want' role play in the Area. If anyone has any spare fabric it will be made great use of.

Thank you to everyone who has sent wellies in. We had fun splashing in the puddles last week!

Well done to Dax Ellis and Jared Dickson who have been our last two Seren Yr Wythnos winners. You both thoroughly deserved it! 

Looking forward to another week of fun weather activities including making windmills and investigating waterproof materials.

See you Monday

Mrs Utting-Lawson

Welcome back!

Welcome to 2011 in Class 8!

Well, what a busy first week we have had! The children were keen to tell me their Christmas news and then all had a really good go at writing about their holidays in their new langauge books. Great use of capital letters and full stops everyone!

We have already made a start on making props for our Weather studio role play. We collaged some big weather symbols which will go up around the 'studio' The children also drew smaller symbols along with Welsh captions to use on the weather studio map. Next week we're going to have a go at making a camera out of junk materials and will begin to put the studio together.

You should all have had our termly overview which was sent home with the children yesterday. Any questions about the overview or any offers of ideas or resources, please pop in and see me at the end of the day.

Finally congratulations to Ella-Mae who was our first Seren yr Wythnos winner of the term.

See you on Monday.

Nadolig Llawen!

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope that you all have a fabulous 2 weeks at home and that all of you who have been poorly are feeling well enough to enjoy Christmas.
Thank you so much for all my lovely presents. I am a very lucky teacher!
See you all after Christmas.
Mrs Utting-Lawson.

Christmas concert.

Well - I really am a very proud teacher tonight! You were all fantastic in the Christmas Concert. Beautiful singing, lovely clear speaking voices and big smiles. Judging by the amount of singing that we have had in the classroom over the past few days you have all really enjoyed learning all the concert songs. I'm sure that we'll hear them lots more before the end of term!
A big thank you everyone who helped to provide all the lovely costumes - the children all looked fabulous. Thanks also to those parents who came in to help with dressing the children - it was a huge help having extra pairs of hands to deal with buttons and zips!
We have a busy week next week with the Christmas party, carols around the Christmas tree, not to mention Christmas crafts. It should be lots of fun! I hope that all those children who aren't feeling 100% are better in time to enjoy all these activities next week. Well done to all of you for keeping going through the concert.
See you all tomorrow.

Well Done!

Firstly well done to everyone for learning their concert lines, songs and actions so well. I am very proud of you all!

Can I ask that all concert costumes be brought into school by this Friday (in a named carrier bag please). If anyone is having problems getting a costume, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can sort one out in school.

Also congratulations to Ethan Weatherall for being our Seren Yr Wythnos last week.

See you all tomorrow. Don't forget to wrap up warmly!

Mrs Utting-Lawson

Concert preparations!

Well, we are well and truly into Christmas concert season now! The children are doing really well with their parts and a big 'thank you' to all of you who have been helping them to learn their words at home. This week we are beginning to use props to rehearse with, so it will be all about actions and positions on our 'stage'.

'Thank you' to all our Year 2 children who brought in their 3d shapes. I hope they had fun making them! We will be using their work on buildings in our locality and homes in different countries before the end of term.

Lastly a big well done to Annie and Grace who won our last two Seren Yr Wythnos certificates.

See you all on Monday

Mrs Utting-Lawson.