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We all took part in circle time this week which had a communication focus.

We played games which required us to listen carefully to instructions, respond appropriately and deliver communications to others.  We played charades, ‘Apples and Bananas’, parachute counting games and a games called ‘spider web’ where we had to pass a ball of string to each other but holding onto our own piece and use verbal communication or signs to indicate who we want to pass the string to.  We then had to listen carefully to each other as we tried to untangle ourselves! We were effective contributors as we all took part in every game!

The Beech class have been learning about Sphen and Magic!

Sphen and Magic (together, “Sphengic”) are two male gentoo penguins living in captivity at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium. They are young, in love and about to become parents for the second time, thanks to a foster egg donated to them by staff at the aquarium. 

When Sphen and Magic became a couple, Australia had just gone through a bitter battle about whether same-sex marriage should be legal. The human gay marriage debate had brought out thorny personal and religious tensions. These two gentoos, unaware of the political heat around their courtship, became a larger symbol for the country. If a penguin colony could figure this out, a human nation certainly could.

we decided to honour Sphen and Magic by putting them on our class snow globe!

The Beech class read some stories about Scotland and St. Andrew this week as well as enjoyed a special St. Andrew’s day assembly on Wednesday.  To help us celebrate, we listened to traditional Scottish music while designing our own Scottish thistle!  We were all very successful learners!

Below are some snapshots of active numeracy sessions and life skills mathematics in the Beech class.  The work we do is based on life skills and pupil ILP targets.  The young people work round each station focusing on their own number targets.

  Lyle is working on number and coin recognition

  Sean and Skye use their hands or instruments to count out the numbers on coins or play matching games to help develop their coin and number recognition.  Nicole is working on her understanding of her personal timetable and thinking about when different activities happen in her day.

  Sean loves our counting Monkey game

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The Beech class were effective contributors as we took part in and enjoyed our (very cold) outing this morning to the Kay Park to complete our ’50 things’ challenges.

We agree to:

1. Take a wintery walk

2. Take part in a nature scavenger hunt

3. Try to skim a stone

  We didn’t have much luck skimming stone…mostly because the water has turned to ice! So we had a stone throwing competition to see who could throw a stone the farthest distance.

  We also didn’t find many things on our checklist but still had fun!

  We were so cold when we got back to school we decided to heat ourselves up with some hot chocolate and a Christmas film

The Beech class are completing a number processes SQA unit this year.  We are successful learners and confident individuals when we practise our number targets every week by taking part in different activities.

Lyle and Valo played a game of penalties where they had to answer number related questions before taking a shot at goal!

 Numeracy through ICT