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Acknowledgements Special thanks to the pupils and teachers of St Mellons Primary School, Pendoylan Primary School and Roath Park Primary School for their support and ideas.
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Musical Islands What you need: • Pages of newspaper. • CD player. • CD of different music.
What you do: • This is a pirate version of the classic party game “Musical Chairs”. • Lay out sheets of newspaper in the hall or playground. You will need one less sheet of paper than you have numbers of pupils. • Play the music. Pupils should travel around the room. They can pretend they are swimming to add to the idea that they are moving around a Xim faccus a Et lant fugit por porem vent. modisint ex eseque group of islands. Ecum restius- repedipid eos qui dame conecer dolupis experias ferionsequis quo de same nis sus • Stop the music at random intervals. volo et alicientem aut verspientium suntur as t ius dolorum as aut • Whenever the music stops, pupils eliam que should jump onto the nearest island. You could shout “pirates” to add to the excitement and fun. Ask pupils: • Only one pupil is allowed to stand • How easy was it to find an on each piece of paper. The pupil island? without an island must leave the • Did you learn any ways to game. You could say that they have make sure you always found been captured by pirates! an island? • Before you restart the music, remove • Did you and a friend ever land one of the sheets of paper. on the same island? How did • Keep playing until there is one you decide who should step winner. off?
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Visiting the Beach • Think about all of the different things you like to do at the beach. • Find out the word for ‘beach’ in Welsh. • Find out the words for ‘sea’ and ‘sand’ in Welsh. • You could use: bbc.co.uk/learnwelsh to help you. • Write a sentence in Welsh in the large bubble to describe to Delyth the best thing for you about visiting the beach.
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Shoebox Aquarium What you’ll need: • Shoebox • Blue paint • Paint brush • Card • String • Scissors • Pencils or crayons • Green tissue paper • Stickers • Glue
What you do: • Paint the inside of the shoebox blue and leave it to dry. • Stand the box on its side (as in the picture). • Cut out seaweed shapes in the green tissue paper. Stick these on the back wall of the box and along the bottom. • Draw and colour in fish shapes. You could also do a starfish, crab, octopus or any other sea creature you can think of. • Cut out these shapes. You may need an adult to help you with the cutting. • Ask an adult to help you make a hole in the top of each sea creature. Feed string through the hole and tie a knot. • Make some holes along the top of the box. Feed the string through the holes to dangle your sea creatures in your sea scene.
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Sorting Sea Creatures • Below there are lots of different sea creatures*. With an adult’s help, cut out the pictures. • How can you sort the sea creatures into different groups? • Why did you choose to sort them in this way? • Now sort them into different groups. • How did you sort them this time? Why did you choose to sort them in this way? • How are these creatures similar? How are they different?
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Curriculum Links world Physical Creative development development development development Mathematical Knowledge and Knowledge Welsh language Welsh Personal and social and social Personal communication skills communication and cultural diversity and cultural udnerstanding of the of udnerstanding Language, literacy and literacy Language, development, wellbeing wellbeing development, Musical islands
Visiting the beach
Shoebox aquarium Sorting sea creatures
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