Exploring shops

The children in Reception class wanted to change their construction site into a shop so we went to explore Pontypridd Market.

We found the fruit and vegetable stall and used the shopping lists we had written to buy fruit.

We have been busy exploring our favourite fruits, comparing and drawing the inside and outside of fruits and tasting lots of different fruits. Take a look at some of the things we have been doing.

Pets

We have been learning about pets and how to care for them. We have enjoyed having some special visitors to school to help us learn about looking after different animals. We loved seeing Rohan's guinea pigs and bearded dragon [many thanks to Mrs Tarr for bringing them to visit us and telling us so much about them]. Mrs Ward brought in Mo and Merv two tortoises and we looked after them all day. Take a look at our learning. We now know how to take care of pets.

Over the past few weeks we have been finding out about Pontypridd. For our homework we chose places we would like to visit on Welly Wednesdays’. So far we have visited the Old Bridge, Historical Centre, the Fountain, Ynysangharad Park and found the statues of Evan James and James James in the Park.

I think our favourite place was the playground in the park. Look at some of the photographs we have taken of places we visited and the fun we had in the playground.

Here are some videos of us having fun.

We met an author

We went to the library to visit a special person. His name is Mark Dorey and he is an author. We loved reading his book “Can we walk to the moon?” We found out about how the story came about and he read the book to us. We were also lucky to hear about another one of his books ”Polly and the Magic Bubbles” it was very exciting and he kindly gave us some magic bubbles of our own to take home. One day we are hoping to write our own book just like Mark!

PC Rob

PC Rob came to visit us. He told us about his job and all the special clothes he wears. Some of us tried on his handcuffs and they were too big for us. We also tried on his different police hats. We told him when we see him in town we will say hello and give him a wave. We liked being police constables. Look at us in PC Rob’s hats.

Chinese New Year Videos

Chinese New Year

The Lower Foundation Phase children came to our Chinese feast. We had to prepare lots of things just like Chinese people do. We helped to clean, organise and decorate the hall. We made our own menus of things we would like to eat, we made Chinese dragons and made music to dance our dragons to through the playground. Lilly even challenged Mrs Ward to make a dragon so she had to make a big dragon and got the children to help her decorate it. We also made special drums and Chinese red envelopes with chocolate money in them.

We learnt a lot about how Chinese New Year is celebrated and had a delicious feast provided for us by The Oriental Buffet.  Many many thanks to Mr and Mrs Zhang for preparing such lovely food and helping us to celebrate Chinese New Year.