RTM''s Class Page - Mrs Matthews
Croeso i'r Dosbarth Derbyn!
Welcome to Reception RDP's web page!
Our Teachers are Mrs Pope (Monday,Tuesday and every other Wednesday) and Mrs L. Davies (every other Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Seary
PE is on Friday. Don't forget to wear clothes which are easy to get on and off!
Making a dragon house
Dragons
Dydd Gwyl Dewi / St David’s Day
Immersion day
We investigated which materials would make an effective shield
world book day
Snack Money
We would welcome a contribution of £1 per week for snack. We offer a wide variety of different fruits and soon begin to know which ones the children like the most.All children are entitled to milk and for those who do not want milk we offer water.
Water Bottles
Please send a water bottle to school which can be left in class and we will fill these with fresh water to ensure that everyone has access to a drink whenever they need it.
Dragons for Dydd Gwyl Dewi
Dinosaur art using natural materials
We have been using the ipads to take photographs of objects that we have counted
We recorded our talking partner saying a fact about a dinosaur
We use the funky fingers table to excersise our pincer grip. We covered the dinosaurs in corks using the tweezers
Some of the girls wanted to take photographs of a model they made. They enjoyed posing too !
We drew dinosaurs and said which colour they were in Welsh
We made our own head dresses
Estimating dinosaurs
I need to find those dinosaurs !
We really enjoy writing the long dinosaur names
We have been reading books about the dinosaurs
Christmas celebrations
We performed on the stage and we have been dressing up in the class
Playing together is an important part of our learning
Measuring in maths
Adding using potatoes
We enjoy reading in our class
We have been pretending to bake cakes
Using vegetables to learn how to add sets together
Writing numbers
Making biscuits
Making a frame using a repeating pattern
Here we are / Dyma ni
Our farm visit.
Sports Day
Look what we played in music !
We have been learning the language of capacity through pretending to be farmers feeding the animals
We can balance
Using i pads to enhance our learning
Writing direction words
We have been learning about directions in mathematics this week.
Building a bridge
The wheelbarrow for the RHS garden show
Summer A
This half term we will be finishing our Dragon Tale Topic and starting Down on the Farm.
Our trip to Cardiff castle was excellent! The children were superb and listened to our guide and played with the knight!
St David's day
Mathematics on world book day
Our challenge was to make the tallest dinosaur from our pieces. Next we made the smallest and the middle size one. We measured the dinosaurs using blocks.
We can estimate and count
Spring A
The Battle of the Dinosaurs has begun and we will be discovering all sorts of interesting things about theses creatures as we become dinosaur explorers this half term.
There is lots of information about the topic on our reception page. Don't forget to discuss the topic and send back the bubble maps to Mrs Brown and she will try to make sure that she plans work around your ideas.
Christmas
Christmas party
Autumn B.
This half term our topic is 'Scrumptious', we will be learning about:
- Different types of food
- Foods we like and dislike
- The senses of smell and taste
- Keeping healthy by eating a balanced diet
- Measures and money through play based contexts
- Foods from different countries
- The processes of cooking, melting, freezing and mixing
- Expressing themselves creatively using a range of different media
- The Welsh language by using words and phrases across a range of experiences both in the indoor and outdoor environment
Autumn B
We made chocolate reindeer.
We tasted exotic fruits and used our thinking hat to say which one we liked.
Making 7
Making Cheese Straws
Reading in the book corner
Autumn Term A
This half term our topic is 'Happy Families', we will be learning about how our families are different, who is in our family and how families lived in the past. Please see the documents below for more information.
Information for Parents Autumn Term
Dressing up in the role play
Learning in different areas of the classroom .
Making patterns for our photograph frames
Happy Families Information
Dragon Tales
This half term our topic is dragon tales, we will be learning about:
•Different types of castles, their features and how they were used in he Middle Ages
•Significant castles of Wales
•Maps and plans
•The lives of people in the past
•Similarities and differences between castles and the homes they live in.
•Re-telling traditional tales