Photographs of our Ugly Bug Ball

(Not so) Ugly Bug Ball

We held our Ugly Bug Ball on Friday afternoon but there wasn't a single ugly bug in sight. The children were all far to beautiful to be ugly bugs! They looked wonderful! Thank you so much to the lovely parents who made such a fantastic effort. We had a really special, enjoyable day. We spent the morning perfecting our mini beast masks, playing games and taking part in guided reading sessions. The children were all incredibly excited by the afternoon. 


When it was time for the Ugly Bug Ball we all made our way to the hall where we were joined by Mr. Roberts Year 4/5/6 class. I would like to thank Mr. Roberts class for the wonderful bug stories that they wrote and read for us in custom made story tents. The children in Nursery and Reception love to spend time with the older children in the school and it was wonderful to watch all of the children working together so well. So, THANK YOU YEAR 4/5/6 and Mr Roberts! 


As well as listening to stories we also found time for face painting, some bug themed games and an Ugly Bug Parade. The whole school, including Mrs Price came to watch our parade. The children will soon be able to bring their masks home, they can't wait!


We also held our class assembly today on the topic of mini beasts. The children had only had a few practices of the assembly and I thought that they presented it very well indeed. I am very proud of all of the children, each one of them joined in with songs, poems, dances and acting - no mean feat for 3-5 year olds, especially in front of a whole hall full of people. What a fantastic class I have!


The recent events draw our topic of 'Wriggle and Crawl' to an end. I look forward to starting our new topic 'Happiness' after Easter.


Thanks for reading the blog!
Miss Rose

We Are Poets!

We have been very busy young people today in Nursery and Reception at Llanharan Primary School. We wrote a class poem together all about mini beasts! We also wrote our own individual efforts which describe our favourite bug. Miss Rose suggested that it would be nice to share our class poem with our parents and the world via our blog. So here it is...

Bugs

By  Nursery and Reception Class

Bugs have rainbow coloured spots,

Bugs drink sparkling nectar from fabulous flowers,

Bugs live in a tickly spiders's tummy,

Bugs taste delicious, mmm,

Bugs are twirly and swirly,

We love bugs!

Thank you for taking the time to read our poem. I hope to broadcast it as a podcast within the next few days. We will also be presenting the poem as part of our end of topic class assembly. I think that it is a rather wonderful piece of writing produced by our class of 3,4 and 5 year olds. Well done everyone, bendigedig! What do you think of our poem and blog? Please leave your comments and thoughts, diolch!

Useful links

A few parents asked for me to repost some links for ebooks and phonics guidance. They can all be found at http://llanharanps.wikispaces.com/Links

Parents Evening and Afternoon

Thank you very much to all of the parents who came in to school this week for parent/teacher meetings. I loved hearing all about what the children in Nursery and Reception get up to at home! It was also great to look back at how much the children have progressed since September, I am very proud of them all. As always, if you ever have any questions or comments my door is always welcome.
I am very excited to announce that we had out first rehearsal for our class assembly today, the children did really well and we can't wait to perform. I do not know when the assembly will be yet but will try to update everyone soon.
Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Rose.

Eisteddfod - Diolch!

A big thanks to all of the family members who turned up to cheer the children on in our St David's Day Eisteddfod earlier this week! I must say I thought it was a fantastic show, well done to all of the children who performed so brilliantly and behaved so well throughout. The children really showed that we might be a small school in size but we have more than our fair share of talent and heart! I felt very proud to be Welsh and I would imagine everyone else there did too! Thanks again to the parents who dressed the children so beautifully for the big day.
The song that Nursery and Reception performed was a lullaby called 'Heno, Heno'. This and some other lovely Welsh songs can be found and played at
 http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/2007-08/music/irf35/anim2.html
Congratulations to Ty Gwyn who were the wining house this year. The other houses put up a good fight and narrowly missed out on scooping the prize trophy. Perhaps next year will be a Ty Gwyrdd win or a Ty Coch. Don't forget to follow @llanharanps on twitter and myself @missrosetweets. You can have a peek at some great photographs of our Eisteddfod that were tweeted earlier this week.