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Communication: Reading for Discussion

The Beech class looked at different newspapers and TV guides this week to try and find pictures, logos or words that we recognise.  We then generated a group or paired discussions about the things we like and dislike and what we watch on television at home.  Through our discussions we managed to create our own personalised TV guide showing what our favourite programmes and what day they are on TV.  The group were successful learner’s and showed great communication by recognising and responding to a variety of images and words.

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Chinese New Year

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The Moonbeams enjoyed learning about how Chinese New Year is celebrated. The children explored some objects of significance and tasted some vegetable spring rolls and prawn crackers. Some of the children were confident enough to try eating with chopsticks too!

 

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Haircuts and Eggs????

We had a lovely time at the Burns Supper and Ceilidh last Friday – didn’t take very many photos as we were too busy enjoying ourselves.

Shannon, Reece and Jessica went to Tesco on Wednesday.  They bought the classroom supplies and had a snack there.  Reece confidently paid for the snacks and used the scanner.

We have been practising our Makaton – Reece has been working us hard.

Melanie has been working on her SQA Unit – matching the characters with their theme tunes.

Adam has been doing great work in his lift pants.

Shannon discovered a new light up toy which makes loads of noises.

Mrs Jardine read the story about the Haircut – we love it!!

Need a Haircut???

The chattering teeth are funny!!!

Reece wearing the cape.

“Would you like a magazine?”

Snip Snip!!

Think you might have taken too much off Mrs Jardine!!!

In SQA Baking we were exploring ingredients again – this week eggs.

Watch you don’t break it!!!!

Melanie and Adam enjoyed being in the Cookery Room in their Lift Pants and Walker.

Making meringues – for snack tomorrow – yum!!

 

Using the switch to make the mixer go!!

Do eggs feel funny Reece??

Holding the Egg Whites over our heads – no accidents!!!

We also have a lovely visitor in our room for 6 weeks, a Student Nurse called Kyra.

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IDL – Edinburgh

We have finalised our IDL Scotland topic work by having a Scottish breakfast and then creating a tour guide poster for Edinburgh.

We were effective contributors when getting everything prepared for the breakfast, at the same time another group were making mint aero tray bake for Café Latte tomorrow.

Next term we are exploring the great outdoors for our new IDL topic, the Oak room will be experiencing camping and walking.  We all worked together to build a tent in class.

 

 

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Independent Travel and Communication Targets

Some of the Beech pupils enjoyed an outing on the public bus to our local café.  The focus of our outing was communication and choice.  Every pupil used their voice or a communication device to ask for a bus ticket and effectively use their bus pass.  We then safely walked through town to a café and made our choices for food and drink, remembering to use sentences and a clear voice.  We then each paid for our snack independently, listening and responding to the waitress.  We were very successful learners!

Well done, guys!

 

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Burns Fun!

We all had a fabulous time at our annual Burns Supper this year.

Special thank you to Sean Good (Beech), Blake Milligan and Jack Hughes (Oak) and Patrick McCready for their fantastic reading, speaking and signing during our readings.

Another special “well done” to the Transition boys who helped to serve our meal!

Here are just a small selection of our favourite photo’s from the afternoon, where we were all very effective contributors.

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FAOL – Beech Kandinsky Sensory Art

Today the pupils in the Beech class created some unique contemporary art inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘Concentric Circles’ painting.

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Concentric Circles

These ‘Kandinsky Trees’ were created by using the sensory elements of foam, felt, shiny paper and textured card. The children listened well to instruction and took turns when sharing resources.

Excellent work today by these super successful learners! 

Sharing!

Big smile from Lyle!

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Scottish Food Tasting!

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The Bluebells class were very brave during our food tasting session today. We tasted irn bru, killie pie, haggis, porridge, shortbread and tablet. Some of us were a little unsure of some things so we opted to kiss them. We all were brave enough to taste something 🙂

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FAOL – Bluebells Famous Artist

The Bluebells class have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh (1853 -1890). He was a Dutch  post-impressionist painter who is one of the most famous artists.

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‘Poppies and Butterflies’

The pupils had a go at recreating the butterflies in Van Gogh’s famous ‘Poppies and Butterflies’ painting. Successful learners today!

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FAOL – Pine Famous Artist

Today the Pine class learned a little about Paul Klee (1879 – 1940)who was a Swiss-born artist. He had a very unusual style and created painting in Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism styles.

Castle and Sun, 1928 Paul Klee

Today we tried recreating his ‘Castle & Sun 1928’ painting by using block printing. Successful learners today!

 

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