It’s been a colourful and creative week in Dosbarth Dewi Sant.

In RE, we’ve been practising our special song for the Harvest Festival ‘The Farmer on the Farm’, which we performed for the rest of the school and our families on Friday. 

In Maths, we used Elmer the Patchwork Elephant to help with our counting skills. The children carefully counted Elmer’s colourful patches and sorted them into columns by colour. 

In Phonics, we’ve been revisiting the sounds we’ve learned so far. Using whiteboards, the children practised forming letters and sounding out words.

Over at the Writing Table, we’ve been developing our fine motor skills through mark making. The children followed a variety of lines – including zigzags, diagonals, wiggles, and crosses, to improve for letter formation.

On Tuesday, we linked our learning to Elmer again by doing a colour by sound activity, carefully colouring in Elmer’s patches while identifying initial sounds.

As part of our Context, we continued to explore the idea of being bucket fillers by thinking about how we can show kindness to others. We created a Kindness Tree for our display board by adding leaves that describe kind things we can do for others.

We also explored emotions using The Colour Monster. The children painted colourful faces on paper plates to represent different feelings. We could choose between happy, sad, fear, anger, calm and love.

To finish our Elmer theme, we worked together to create a large, beautiful Elmer collage using coloured tissue paper for his patchwork. 

On Miss Wood’s Wood Wednesday, we made nature bracelets by collecting interesting natural materials from around the woodland. 

Lastly, on Friday we celebrated the Harvest Festival. We sang our song ‘The Farmer on the Farm’ for the whole school in the Harvest Festival Assembly and then again for Friends and Family at the end of the day.