What a fantastic week we have had in Dosbarth Coala!
The children have settled back after Christmas superbly
and have set to work straight away. We received a
message of Monday from King Matholwch from the
traditional Welsh story Branwen. He has asked for our
help! We have to hold a healthy banquet for all the
characters from traditional tales so they can all resolve
their problems and finally live in harmony.
Here we are working in groups to complete our KWL grids
on what we wanted to learn this term during our new topic
'Tales and Castles'.
As part of our new topic 'Tales and Castles' we decided we wanted to find out about the different features of a castle so we set to work using two Internet sites and lots of books to find out many interesting facts. Some choose to record their notes in table, others drew their own spider diagram and some even produced a detailed fact file!!! We are now in the middle of using these facts to write our own non-chronological reports!!!
Our P4C session this week was based on the story of Branwn and the question the children wanted to discuss was 'Should Branwen have married someone she didn't love?' Here we are talking about the ideas in the story, creating the questions, voting or our favourite and discussing our chosen question.
And last but not least Mrs Howells has let us design and make our own castle role play area and what fun we had on Friday!!! Enjoy the pictures below.
