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Using a cardboard tube, newspaper strips and diluted PVA glue we created our very own dino bone.
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IDL – Sensory – Create a sand jar
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We created a sand jar in class to explain how fossils were made.
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Effective Contributors – Literacy
The Transition boys were Effective Contributors this week when they took part in a sensory story. They followed a story about a party and rolled out, chapatis, looked at patterned dresses, brushed hair and finally kept time with the party music.
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IDL Art in the Pine Room🍎
Fine Motor Skills this morning, colour sorting and threading buttons…..
…..and wearable!!
IDL Art making Apples for Snow White.
See Art is fun!
So what’s the news??
….something funny!!!
Great sitting skills.
Great signing while enjoying Morning Group.
Come Boyle lets get ‘MOVEing’ and dance the Tarantella!!!
IDL Numeracy, identifying shapes and making some dwarfs…..
….dogs and houses – well done!!!
Aren’t our apples cool!!!
Sensory Cookery, working with pastry, sugar, cinnamon and apples.
Kneading and gripping.
WOW!!!!
Musical fun!!!
Sports Day Ready!!!
IDL Pop Art – using the Dabbers and Scented Pens.
Fantastic Sitting.
Looking at the Weather in Social Studies and Science – making a rain storm!!
….waiting!!!
Are you sure you read the instructions right Wilson???
Not as dramatic as we expected – oh well!
Sensory Play – good use of the Shaving Foam!
Art, spoons and messy play – what could be better!!!
Getting our MOVE on!!! Marching to the Grand Ole Duke of York!!
Sensory Play using cereals and plastic fruits…
…and using our fine motor skills to make feeders for the birds!!!
Have a FAB weekend everyone!!!!
Hope the sun shines!!
Learning with Sensory Cards, here we identified the object, touched the sensory part, made the Makaton sign and the noise …successful learning indeed!!
MOVE in my Pacer – changing the Board to what I want to watch!!
Identifying Shapes.
Literacy – using the Color Monster characters to help describe the characters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Lets have a wee chat girls!!!
Sensory Play – digging for jewels just like the dwarfs (although they did it in dirt!!)
Outside in the sunshine – a rare sight!!!
Let me help you with your jacket…
Numeracy, we used the story ‘Spinderella‘ this week, lots of counting and clapping!! We also had spiders frozen in ice – not real spiders!!!! We worked on our tolerance of having the cold ice touch our skin, counted the spiders, and identified the different colours.
Which colour is your favourite?
This is the Hairy Godmother.
MOVE – In our Standing Frames watching some counting songs.
Now a note from your ECO-CAPTAIN – reduce, reuse and recycle – well I think these responsible citizens have done all that and more!! Using feed bottles to ‘Feed the Birds’. We all worked as a team on a sustainable goal SDG 17 – hope the birds like them.
The birds need water too….
IDL Art for our class display.
Turning Art into Sensory Play Fun.
Ready for home – have you had a good week?
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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50 Activities – Natural Brushes
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We collected leaves and flowers from the garden and used them to paint dinosaur pictures. We were amazed what good paint brushes they made.
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Dinosaur Dig
The Stars class were digging for dinosaurs in the sensory garden and we found loads. We also found frozen dinosaur eggs and used warm water to help the babies ‘hatch’.
Hi everyone. Hope all is well with you and your families. Find below some activities to do should you wish. Some of them are LGBTQ related. 
Read the story ‘I am Jazz’ if you choose to. It is the story of a boy who would rather be a girl and do what are thought of as girls things.
We are all very different. Draw or list some of the things that you like. Compare them with the likes of another member of your family. Are they the same…….or different?
You might have a favourite animal, school subject, TV programme, colour, sport, food, game or type of weather. These are just a few ideas.
Play the game Shape Monsters.
Try and find things around your house with the shape of a….
Circle
Square
Rectangle
Triangle
How many can you find of each shape?
Paint can feel cold and slippery on your hands but is fun to touch with your hands to create pictures. Paint the colours of the rainbow on your hands to make LGBTQ rainbow handprints. Make a handprint of everyone in your family if you can.
Friday is Purple Friday. Why not make a purple octopus picture or ice some biscuits with purple icing.
Make your own musical shaker using an empty plastic bottle, coleslaw tub or two yogurt pots stuck together. Fill your shaker with lentils, dried peas, broth mix, pasta, rice or small stones then shake. Do they sound like the maracas at school?
Here is a music game to play.
I hope you enjoy trying some of these activities.
Have Fun! Stay Safe! 
Hope all is well with you and your families. 
Find below some activities to do so if you wish. Friday 12th February is the Chinese New Year. 2021 will be the year of the ox. The ‘Chinese Zodiac Story’, sometimes called ‘The Great Race’, tells the story of how the Chinese calendar follows a 12 year cycle, each year named after a different animal.
Below are two video’s showing preparing for and celebrating Chinese New Year.
Preparing for Chinese New Year
Dragon Dance
One of the colourful activities to watch is the dragon dance.
Create Your Own Dragon
Make your own handprint Chinese New Year dragon. You will need:- paper, pen, glue stick, sellotape, two sticks and scissors.
Seeing Red
Red is a lucky colour in China. How many red things can you find in your living room.? How many can you find in your kitchen?
Chinese Dragon Game
Find below a Chinese Dragon Game for you to try.
Noodle Handling.
Handle a tray of cooked noodles with your fingers. Try to lift noodles using chopsticks. If this is too difficult, use kitchen tongs. Try cutting noodles with scissors.
Paper Lanterns
Make paper lanterns to hang in your house. You can decorate them any way you like. Maybe use stickers or glitter.
I hope you have good fun doing some of these activities.
Have Fun! Stay Safe!
Hi everyone. Find below some activities you might like to try. Maybe you would like to send us photographs of some of the things you’ve been doing at home.
Sound ‘s’
Listen to the Crazy Stir Fry ‘s’ Song
You collected some things from around the house last week beginning with the sound ‘s’. Have you found any more? Play ‘I Spy With My Little Eye Find Something Beginning With ‘s”
Roll out some playdoh in to a long snake and form into the shape s.
Enjoy playing the game Ten Little Snowmen
Patterns
Play the game Planet Pals
Try printing coloured patterns with household items e.g. cotton reels, back of fork, pen tops, duplo/lego bricks, cookie cutters.
Relaxation
To relax, make this Home Made Stress Ball
Cookie Cutter Bird Seed Ornaments
Cookie Cutter Bird Seed Ornaments
You will need – 2.5 cups birdseed, 2 packs unflavoured gelatine, 2 tbl golden syrup, 1 cup water, 12 cookie cutters, 12 x 5cm lengths drinking straws, string.
- Prepare gelatine as per packet instructions.
- Add 2 tbl syrup and stir.
- Add bird seed, mix, and put in fridge to firm up. (approx 10 minutes)
- Put cookie cutters on to parchment baking sheet.
- Spoon mixture in to each cookie cutter to the top and press down firmly with the back of a spoon.
- Press length of straw into bird seed before it is set so you have a nice neat hole for the string to go through afterwards. Make sure it is at least 1 cm from the edge.
- Refrigerate overnight.
- Remove straws and remove from cutters. Thread string through holes and tie the ends in a knot.
- Hang in the garden from trees and shrubs and wait for the birds to come.
I hope you have fun with these activities should you wish to try them.
Have fun! Stay safe!
