Today we joined in and listened to author Shirley Husband telling us all about how she became an author, what her job involves and who inspires her.
Shirley read us the story of Harris McCoo and we saw how colourful and beautiful the illustrations were.
Today we put some calming music on, closed all the blinds and tried some chillout time on the bean bags enjoying the music and sounds of the water.
We used pizza as our writing stimulus. We wrote a shopping list of ingredients then we wrote our recipe before finally making our pizzas!
In nurture we tried out some High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) which meant the boys completed 45 seconds for each move then had a 15 second rest. See below for the moves if anyone fancies trying it out at home.
It was good fun trying out all the moves, here are some photos:
This morning we made Mindful Breathing Sticks from beads and pipe cleaners. This easy idea is to help the boys to self-regulate. The way they work is to take a deep breath each time you move a bead from the top to the bottom. Once all the beads are at the bottom they can be turned around and start again if need be.
We made sensory bottles using a mixture of ingredients.
The ingredients were;
an empty bottle, water, food colouring, orbeez, glitter, baby oil, loom bands, pipe cleaners and a few other bits and pieces.
These sensory bottles are used if we need to help calm down 🙂
