Purple Mash

Friday, 2 March 2012

PE

In PE this week we remembered how important it is to warm up our muscles and bodies before we do any activity. Here we are pretending to be cars that have to stop when the traffic lights are on red, slow down by walking when the light turns yellow and run when the light is green! We are very careful to steer around each other so we don't crash!







After we had warmed up we listened to Mrs Abel strike the African drum to 4 beats and then listened to the instructions she gave e.g. forward 2,3,4; back 2,3,4; side 2,3,4; turn 2,3,4. She then mixed up all the commands so that we made a sequence all the time listening carefully to the beat of the drum.



After all our exercise we then made sure we cooled down.


When Mrs Abel tickled the back of our knees we lined up quietly ready to go back to the classroom and change out of our PE kit.


Our pond


Both classes visited our pond this week. To our amazement we found lots of fully grown frogs and loads of frogspawn! We are going to keep a close eye on it to observe the life cycle of frogs from spawn to adult.












World Book Day

We all looked wonderful in our costumes today! 






 Even the seven dwarves came into school! Can you guess who is who?


Year 6 children came to read stories to us at the end of the day - they were great! and we listened really well too!




Dydd Gwyl Dewi

We watched the story of St David this week on Powerpoint on our plasma and found out why we celebrate his life on March 1st. There were lots of activities to do on the plasma afterwards too! We painted and coloured in pictures of things to do with Wales, made collages of Welsh ladies in traditional costume and ate lots of delicious welshcakes on Friday thanks to Mrs Button, who literally stood up and cooked them all day, dressed up as Dopey the dwarf!









 R1 winners of the Art competition (painting daffodils using watercolours)


 R2 winners







Friday, 24 February 2012

Library visits

Hope you got your letter regarding our library visits. Please watch our blog to see when each class is going. Many thanks

St David's day painting competition


We have been using watercolours to paint daffodils. Our paintings will be judged and certificates awarded on St David's day! Watch this space!!!






Shrove Tuesday/Pancake day

 On Tuesday we learned why we have pancake day and it's special name - Shrove Tuesday. We found out that Lent begins the day after which lasts for 40 days and nights and then it's Easter!! Many people give up something for Lent - we decided to give up 5 minutes of our play time!!




 Then we had a wonderful afternoon helping to make pancakes and then of course eating them with lots of toppings to choose from - sugar, lemon, chocolate spread & syrup - they were absolutely delicious!!