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The Daisies class loved making funny faces today. We used tortilla wraps as our base and then used a range of vegetables to make our other facial features. We chose from cherry tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, peppers and potatoes. We really enjoyed doing this, especially grating the carrots and cucumber to make curly hair.
Hello from the Pine Class!!!
This year the MacMillan Coffee Morning is on Friday 24th of September and as a class we have put together some ideas for the rest of the school and for you at home.
If you would like to host an event yourself – small or LARGE!!! There is a link below to the web page.
World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
Well at home you may have your favourite cake and biscuit recipes, please if you are making something send us in some photos, we would love to see you baking talents!!
Other recipe ideas for some yummy Colin Cookie Dough, Ultimate Percy Tray Bake or Fuss-free Fridge Cake can be found on the Website below.
Marks and Spencers‘ Recipe Ideas
On the day, if you want, why don’t you wear something purple or green, the MacMillan colours OR come with crazy cup cake hair…..or just crazy hair!!!
Things to do at School
Our class voted for a MASCOT to celebrate the day – the choices were a Gingerbread Person, Colin or Connie the Caterpillar or Percy the PIG…..Percy won!!! So we will be putting a large cut out of Percy in the Atrium (without his head) so you could go and stand on his muddy puddle and have your photo taken – you might want to make and wear a mask, or some ears…..or even a curly tail!!!
We have made a large Cup Cake (there seems to a theme here – or the Pine Class just like Cup Cakes!!) to display outside our class – please join in and make and display one outside your classroom.
To save paper we will leave some different colouring sheets outside the Pine Room and you can photocopy any that you think are appropriate.
On the Friday Morning please enjoy your snack – eat and drink what is appropriate in your class – if you have made or decorated something GREAT!! If you have a teapot to pose with FANTASTIC!!! Remember and take some photos for the Blog.
Have a great day.
The Pine Class
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It has been great to be back in School!
We thought we would just show you some of the things we had been getting up to since the beginning of term.
Selecting the Golden Rule we are focusing on – Number 2 – Working Together.
MOVE and working on Days of the Week.
Successful Learners in Numeracy
Knock it down!!!!
Right Respecting School – what is Right thing and what is Wrong thing to do?? These responsible citizens knew the answers.
Stretching out in MOVE
Ready for Parachute Fun!!!
Sensory Play – great fun!!!
Making Choices. – planning our MacMillan Event.
Colour Sorting in Numeracy
Confident Individuals in Art
We are Artists – ROAR!!!
We love The Wonky Donkey Story – using a single message device for the ‘Hee-Haw’ sounds.
Sensory Fun with Shaving Foam!
Band Practice!!
UNCRC Article 24 – making a poster with all the appropriate information.
Health and Well-being – Outdoor Learning.
A great afternoon Bowling. – STRIKE!!
Making Choices and place mats.
Numeracy with Spinderella, . story about a spider that wants to learn to count!
Stretching for MOVE
Autumn Art
Using Technology during Morning Group
Exploring Ingredients – Flour Sensory Play
Oh dear!!!!
Where is the hoover?
Literacy and Art
Outside in the Sunshine.
Our new Food Theme is based on the book ‘Don’t waste your Food’
We are looking at food spoilage.
Won’t look like this next week!!!!
50 Things making Art with things we have collected outside.
Smelly the lavender.
Have a great weekend everyone,
We have had a very busy week in the Beech class! We are enjoying our current ‘Alice in Wonderland’ topic and have done lots of activities connected to our topic. Here are some of the things we have done this week:
We made the Cheshire Cat from a paper plate and the card characters out of tissue paper.
We used different measuring equipment to measure the different real life sizes of the main characters of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. We then ordered the different characters according to size.
We did some rhyming activities during literacy and even made our very own Cheshire Cat poem! We were very successful learners as we learned how to identify a rhyming word and check that our poem makes sense.
We had a lovely tea party on Friday morning with Scones that Tyler, Emma and Hugh made on Thursday during our life skills cookery session.
Emma and Amber have really enjoyed recreating the magical door from ‘Alice in Wonderland’, we plan to use this during creative writing activities.
Our favourite activity this week has been music where we learned to play a rhyme on using Boomwhackers!
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The Daisies class completed a range of fine motor skills this week. We put play dough spots on a dinosaur, moved pompoms using pegs, pushed straws into small holes on a cheese grater and finally threaded some wooden fruits.
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The Daisies class were very successful learners during a Health and Wellbeing lesson. We looked closely at images of different people and tried to decide how they were feeling. We were using words like happy/sad/angry/sleepy/scared.
We also took turns rolling the emotions dice and then acting out that feeling in front of a mirror.
Finally, we made different play dough faces to show different emotions.
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The Daisies have really enjoyed familiarising themselves with their new classroom and class team. We have particularly enjoyed this weather and have loved exploring the playground with our friends.
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The Daisies class enjoyed participating in one of our 50 Things Outdoor activities. They explored the grass in the sensory garden using their bare feet. They all really enjoyed doing this!
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We also took turns blowing bubbles for our friends. Some of us preferred blowing the bubbles and some of us preferred to run around and pop them!
Confident Individuals
The Sunflowers have been so happy to be out in the sunshine and have enjoyed being out in the playground on the bikes and cars. Each child experienced moving at different speeds in different directions and we even had some races on the bikes and scooters too.
Confident Individuals Successful Learners
The Moonbeams have loved learning about food this week through our new theme, Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs. The children have been practicing Makaton signs for days of the week and food in order to help them choose and create a weekly menu. They all looked delicious!
The children had great fun during a sensory food lesson. They were using various types of utensils and their hands to explore and play with both cooked and dry spaghetti, rice and mashed potato!
Take a look at our photos.
