Dosbarth Y Garn

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Reception Autumn Newsletter 2023

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Dosbarth Y Garn have enjoyed our topic this term 'Our World, Our Planet!'.

Question 1: What different types of plants and animals live around our planet?

Question 2: What's the weather like in different part of our planet?

Question 3: How are people different around the world?

Using our 'Base Camp' day as a springboard for ideas, we decided to travel around the world visiting four different types of Biomes. First stop on our trip was to a tropical rainforest where we 'visited' the amazing Amazon Rain Forest. We learned all about the beautiful and strange plants and animals that live there. We made jungle animal masks and compared the different creatures of the Amazon to the ones we see here at home!

Next we decided to visit the vast African plains and stopped off in the wonderful Masai Mara! Here we learned all about the nomadic Masai Warriors, how and where they live and how they live alongside some of the world's most feared creatures, like Lions! We made stunning Masai Warrior jewellery and ventured into our own Masai Mara wilderness (Our school field!) where we made our very own Masai hut and danced and sang like Masai warriors.

Our next stop was the the treacherous but amazing Sahara desert where we looked at the extreme weather and how the different animals who live there, survive! For one week, we studied the weather there and compared it to our own weather, here in Cefn Cribwr!

Our last stop, and just in time for Christmas, was to the freezing Artic tundra. Here we looked at the animals that live there and learned how they have adapted to live in such freezing climates. We also looked at how the areas where they live are slowly disappearing due to climate change and global warming.

Each time we visited a different area of the planet, we made a diorama to showcase all of knowledge and what we had learned!

Our World, Our Planet Dioramas!