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Remembrance in the Pine Room

In Science we did a colour experiment with Skittles – look at the pretty rainbow!

Having great fun during my MOVE Session.

We were successful learners in Numeracy,  using pumpkins we measured them, then cut one open smelt and felt the inside of it and then scooped out the seeds to count them.

It smells AWFUL!!!

We were concentrating on the number 5 and enjoyed watching an episode of Counting with Rodd.

The Number 5

The Makaton sign of the week is the letter X.

The Letter X

Switch It Games – cause and effect.

In Literacy we have been looking at the Letter E, and made lovely glittery Elephant Pictures. We also practiced our Makaton signs by singing one of our favourite songs.

Elephants have Wrinkles 🐘

Remember our food experiments – the Celery and Spring Onion were the only ones that worked.

In our SQA Baking Unit we are exploring ingredients, this week we looked at different sugars, smelling them and touching them.

We carried out a few different Art activities for Remembrance Day, putting paint on a balloon and pressing it into the paper to create a lovely poppy.

Amazing!!!

Then we made different poppies by spraying water on paper and adding pieces of tissue  paper, when it was dry it was painted with PVA Glue and cut into a bowl shape.

We also made our own poppy badges.

Literacy – letter recognition  – finding the first letter of our names.

Our Vice Eco Captain made sure that we use up all our left overs, so we made some Autumn leaf pictures with the tissue paper from the poppies.

Looking good.

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Pine class welcome in November.

Our Eco Vice Captain was being a responsible citizen and showing her support for COP26.

SQA Numeracy is always better fun when there is Dominoes involved!!!

Counting up and making choices – what successful learners we are!!

SQA Baking – we were voting on what we are going to make, will it be pizza, scones, cupcakes or chocolate chip cookies???

And the winner was Chocolate Chip Cookies!!!

In Literacy we are still working on the Letter D – this week we made Doughnuts(not real ones!!) for out Alphabet Books.

Lots of careful ripping, sticking and of course glittering!!

Remember, remember the 5th of November! Fireworks night soon, we make some cool pictures, using a different art technique – effective!!!

We have been responsible citizens and keeping ourselves informed via  Global Goals online.

Thursday was a lovely afternoon so we went outside to the playground.

Have a great weekend everyone.

 

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Something Spooky in the Pine Room!!!

We have been successful learners working on our SQA Numeracy Unit, counting whole numbers while enjoying a game of BINGO!!!

HOUSE!!!!

In our SQA Food Preparation – Baking Unit we are exploring the ingredients through sensory play, sieving the flour, using our fine motor skills to look for the small spiders, mice and pumpkins,  and exercising our hands.

…well that isn’t a small SPIDER!!!!

“5 little pumpkins”

In Literacy we are working on the letter D, we painted baking trays….

..then pressed our pictures on to them.

Press down with your swatter!

D for Dinosaur

Pumpkin Counting

We continue to work on our SQA Communication Unit matching the characters with their colours.

I lovely morning of Indian Dance with Karen.

Howie was turned into a Dragon!!!

And Logan was a Deer!!!

Making Haunted Houses in Art.

Our IDL Work continues ‘Don’t Waste your Food’

A word from the Vice Eco Captain “Don’t buy more than you need”

Working on our re-use symbol.

Ready for our Halloween Spooky Snack and some Halloween photos – we were too busy having fun!!

Have a Spooky Halloween!!

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Literacy, Art, Science and Dominoes in the Pine Class

 

We have been successful learners and continued working on out Alphabet books – we made some lovely Caterpillar pictures using green and yellow paint and different brushes – great concentration.

In our SQA Communication Unit, we listened to the ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What can you see?’ story and the rap again and chose your favourite animal – although some of us just could not decide!

We listened to the Singing Hands telling the story and practised our Makaton signs.

Mrs Mac organised a great activity for Diwali, we made clay elephants with jewels, the clay feels lovely to work with , a great sensory experience and good for exercising our hands.

WOW!!!!

On the MOVE!

Disco Time!!!

We have been working on our IDL Unit and trying to regrow some vegetables – progress report next week!

Smelling and touching the different vegetables.

All ready – fingers crossed!!

These confident individuals continued to work on these IDL and Eco work, using their Art skills and made ‘leftover sandwiches’ for our Display Board.

A word from your Vice Eco Captain use up all your leftovers in a sandwich or a frittata – yummy!!!

Using or Rain Spray during the ‘What is the Weather’ this Morning – great fun!!

FRIYAY DISCO!!!!

Ready for IDL Science looking to change the colour of the celery and lettuce.

Numeracy Dominoes

Have a great weekend everyone.

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Harvest in the Pine Class

This week in the Pine Class we have been participating in some activities all about Harvest.

We made bread dough, which was great, a lovely sensory experience, great hand exercise – squashing, gripping and rolling!!

We have continued in literacy to work on our letters, this week ‘C’, looking for things around the classroom that start with the letter and making a Cookie Monster using lots of different shapes.

We have started working our SQA Communication Unit – Recognising Characters in Fiction, we have chosen the story ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear,  What do you see?’ to start with. We get to pick our favourite animal, work on our colours sorting, practice our Makaton signs for all the colours and the different animals, and we will make some very creative Art work.  Below is a link to a song that we liked.

Brown Bear Rap

We have also started our Numbers Skills SQA Unit, we have been counting whole numbers, we used the large building bricks

Counting while doing our MOVE Exercises, multi-tasking!!

We used the blocks to build up a tower as tall as we are – how many bricks??? Again, knocking them down is always the best bit!!!!

Fantastic Artwork with Mrs Mac

In Literacy we have been working on the letter sounds of our name and story sequences.

Working on our display for our theme board.

Friday was Purple Day – to raise donations for the Ayrshire Hospice, we came dressed in Purple did some purple Art and read a Purple Story.

The World needs more Purple People

We had a Birthday Snack time!!!!

Have a great holiday everyone!!!

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National Maths week in the Pine Class

This is National Maths Week we have been doing even more counting than usual in the Pine Room.

We were successful learners and make some cool Willowbank buses, we counted the silver squares, added two wheels and a Willowbank badge and decided which of our friends we wanted to join us in the bus.

Amazing Work!!!

We starting working on our SQA Baking Unit – making choices of what we liked!

Continuing with our Literacy and Art Sessions and the Letter B – these confident individuals worked on some Brown Bear Pictures.

We have been working on our Food Theme – Don’t Waste your Food – and got some work done for our Display Board, bananas, bread, apples and lettuce, we used lots of different art techniques.

Reading Spinderella for Numeracy ….lots of counting and clapping not always in time!!!

Counting the GOALS for these two football mad boys!!!

A class number hunt.

But don’t forget the MOVE!!!

We love to count the blocks …and knock them down!!!

These Responsible Citizens were learning all about where to put your recycling, lead by or Vice-Eco Captain.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.

 

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MacMillan Coffee Morning – say Hello to Percy Pig!!!

In the Pine Room we have been working really hard on our Literacy Skills, successful learners matching the letters of our names.

Sensory Play exploring different textures, exercising our hands – good job!!

‘A is for Astronaut’ we have been combining Art and Literacy how cool are our moon pictures?

Autumn Art pictures.

We have a large cut out of Percy Pig’s body – we thought it was funny!

We made Pig Masks too!

 

Our theme is based round the book ‘Don’t waste your Food’ we bagged up different foods to see what they looked like after a couple of week….nasty!!!

That was spinach!!!

PHEW!!!!!

Looks and smells and really bad!!!!!

Colour matching foods

Well done!!!

We have been working on the letter B, sounding the letter, looking for objects that start with that letter and creating some spooky Art!!!

The first cupcake is from the Pine Class, the rest are from other classes – aren’t there great!!!!!

Look at these great CRAZY Hairdos!!!

We had a lovely MacMillan Coffee Treat this morning – great interaction!!

Teapot Posers!!!!

What is in there???

Afternoon play and great interaction.

Look at the Ladies Cup Cake Hair!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

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Pine Class – Successful Learners in Art

Hello!!

This week we were successful learners learning a new paint technique in Art – pulling the paint across the paper using a ruler, very effective BUT we cannot tell you what we are doing with it – it is a Christmas secret!!!

 

WOW!!!

I am a happy happy boy!!!

Ready for some Animal Boogie??

Making masks for next weeks’ MacMillan – responsible citizens.

Great friends in the Pine Room.

Sensory Cookery involves lots of skills numeracy – counting the cases, identifying the different objects and colours, working on our motor skills  and our MOVE  when we exercising our hands.

Oh no – they just jumped out of the tray!!!!

Literacy and Art – working on the letter ‘A’ – all will be revealed next week!!!

This successful learner working on her I-gaze skills!!

Confident individuals working on their matching skills.

Our fantastic 50 Things Art from last week.

More Literacy work – matching the ‘A’ pictures and  we love the Alphabet songs…

…..successful story sequencing.

Sun is out – so lets go bowling – STRIKE!!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

 

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MacMillan Coffee Morning

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.

Macmillan Coffee Morning - Widnes Vikings

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

Home baking | Food To Order | M&SRecipe: Colin the Caterpillar cookie dough - So CountiesFridge Cake | M&S

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!!!

Nick Jr Cup Cake Hair

How to Create a Cupcake Updo Tutorial 🍰 | Sunny Day's Style Files | Nick Jr. - YouTube

Pinterest Cup Cake 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!!!

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Pig Mask

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

xx

 

 

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Welcome to the new Pine Class

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,

 

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