Here are some videos for you all to enjoy at home.
There are different sensory sessions for you to enjoy and very little equipment is needed.
Simply time to relax and enjoy some interaction with you and your family.
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Hi everyone. Hope all is well with you. Find below some home learning challenges which you might like to do. As always, have fun! 
Sound ‘S’
https://www.starfall.com/h/abcs/letter-s/?
Collect some things from around the house beginning with the sound ‘s’ e.g. socks, slippers, sunglasses, sellotape. How many can you find? What is your favourite?
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/skyWriter/index.html
Spread some shaving foam on a tray then try and trace the letter ‘s’ that an adult has drawn for you. Good luck!
Colours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80EC7QcPFzg
Sorting Box
Name the colours and sign them.
https://pbskids.org/sid/games/sorting-box
Below is a link to a counting game. How many flowers are there? Click on the flowers to count them.
https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/flowers/
Lego/Duplo Challenge
Try to build the world’s biggest tower. How tall is it? Is it as high as your couch? Is it as high as your door? Knock it down if it hasn’t already fallen over. Have fun!
If you don’t have any lego or duplo you could use building blocks or cardboard boxes.
Today is Robert Burn’s birthday. He is a famous Scottish poet. Maybe you would like to listen to ‘The Sair Finger’ by Walter Wingate, in Makaton, then some Scottish bagpipe music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0bgqUMZaXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8e6tqdCqPM
Have fun! Stay Safe! 
We hope all is well with you and your families. Find below some new learning challenges for you to do should you wish to. Adjust them as needed but above all, have fun!
Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes 
Sing the song, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes but using Scottish words. See how fast you can sing it!
Heid, shooders, knaps and taes
Knaps and taes
Heid, shooders, knaps and taes
Knaps and taes
And een and lugs and mooth and neb
Heid, shooders, knaps and taes, knaps and taes.
Scottish Counting. How many?
Hide small plastic toys in a tray of lentils or oatmeal. Count how many toys you can find. Match your number word with the written number.
Scottish Food
Help someone at home prepare some Scottish foods to eat. It might be porridge, shortbread, pancakes, haggis, a scotch pie, oatcakes and cheese or heating up a tin of lentil soup! Enjoy a taste and try. The smells are good too.! Before you eat your Scottish fare you could maybe recite the Selkirk Grace. This is the prayer normally said before you eat your meal at a Burn’s Supper which is a celebration of the poet Robert Burn’s life and work.
Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae let the Lord be thankit.
Tartan Car Track Painting
Design a new tartan for Burns night. Use toy cars dipped in paint to roll on the coloured lines.
On You Tube, choose and listen to some Scottish music. What is your favourite? Find a few ideas linked below.
The Proclaimers 500 miles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKyWLAaStwM&list=RDVKyWLAaStwM&start_radio=1
Dougie McLean Caledonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-skrVk5TYWU
Coulter’s Candy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D65vVGwT9O0
Have fun! Stay safe!
Happy New Year! I hope all is well with you and your families. The ladies and I are fine but are missing you all very much. We can’t wait until we can all be together again.
Find below some home learning challenges for you to do should you wish to. I will post new ones every Monday. Adjust them to suit yourselves but the main thing is to have fun!
The Glasgow Gruffalo
Listen to our theme book, The Glasgow Gruffalo by Elaine C. Smith. Can you sign the characters, mouse, fox, owl, snake and gruffalo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olpILc_yphM
Owl on Toast
Decorate toast with chocolate spread or jam and a selection of fruit to make your very own version of owl on toast. I bet it tastes yummy.
Finding Colours
How many green things can you find in your kitchen in 30 seconds? Next time, how many red things can you find.
Counting How many underwater creatures can you find? Match your answer with the written number. Good luck!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting
Sensory Sparkles
Collect shiny things like a mirror, tin foil and metal pot scourer. Darken your room and shine a torch on the shiny items. Can you see sparkles and reflections?
Winter Ice Ornaments
Collect lots of natural things from your garden or the park. e.g. leaves, cones, berries, holly leaves. Count how many items you collected.
Place these in to a cupcake tray and fill each space up with water. Remember to dip a loop of string or ribbon in to each pot.
Either leave outside to freeze, if cold enough, or put in to your freezer. How many ornaments did you make?
When frozen, hang them in your garden to decorate. Watch them. Do they melt when the sun comes out? Do they sparkle in the sunshine? Choose your favourite ornament. Why is it your favourite?
Have some fun playing the attached games. You have to be pretty fast though!
https://pbskids.org/sesame/games/super-salad-diner/
https://pbskids.org/sesame/games/the-cookie-games/
Have fun! Stay safe! 
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Christmas Craft
We have been effective contributors creating Christmas art and craft work to take home. We completed a Christmas tree wall decoration, created colourful ‘stained glass’ bauble pictures and made salt dough baubles. We also practiced Christmas party dancing and were successful learners when we successfully tried a magnetic Christmas bottle science experiment.
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Christmas coming already?
The Stars class have been effective contributors by making personalised snowflakes for something ‘secret’ Mrs Murray is planning. We have also been working hard on our Christmas window display for the atrium. We hope you will like it when it’s finished. We also enjoyed the sensory experience of copying shapes and names on shaving foam.
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Parachute Fun in Pine!
Well it was the other half of the Class on Monday that got out for some Outdoor Education – the rain stayed away but it was a bit breezy …
…off on a Autumn Hunt!!
Tuesday saw some snow!!!
Well it looked like snow, sensory play and tolerating a different texture and feel on our hands – and tolerating an apron the whole time – Well Done!!!!
We didn’t eat it – but it was edible!!
And now for the clean up!!
Logan go and get your own swatter and leave mine alone!
MOVE, Music and FUN!!!
Snowflake Art – using my multi-purpose swatter!
It is a Masterpiece!
Nothing gets you out of doing hard work in the Pine Room.
Creating Art with paint and Cotton Buds – sprinkle some glitter Jardine would be proud!!!
Bubble Art while in my Standing Frame.
Fiona the Physio brought me a Walker – I successfully learned to use it in no time at all, what a confident individual!
WOW!!! Tomorrow we can dance to Baby Shark (Oh no! )
Now this might look as if I am relaxing BUT I am actually working on my exercises.
Working on Global Goal 5 – Gender Equality – looking at the jobs men and women do.
A Pilot or a Builder?
This Walker is FAB!!
A Policeman or a Fire-women.
Parachute Fun!!!
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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A little bit blue!!
We are at the end of our IDL Topic and our Colour Rainbow – so this week we are blue!
Although this art work is from our Purple Week.
This successful learner has been working on her numeracy skills. That will be 4 million pounds please!!
Ordering money – well done!!
The sunny weather prop creates a lot of laughs.
More ordering – sizes this time.
Concentration here from these successful learners as we clap, count and sign…
…and giggle!!!
This week our Science was all about Colours.
A tray of milk with some food colouring – when you put some washing up liquid on the end of a cotton bud and dip it in colour moves away – it was really cool you could try this at home!!!
Now for the Skittle Rainbow – Shields loved this!
Skittles on a plate then slowly pour on some warm water and wait!!
Amazing!!!
Not about Colour but using a non-permanent marker we drew on some shapes on to the plate added some warm water and watched the shapes move.
Yellow and Blue make…
…Green!!
Outdoor Learning an Autumn Hunt round the Kay Park.
Autumn Leaves.
Fungi
Boyle lets take some of this back to the Pine Room – quick no one is looking!!!
Looking for a 4 leaf clover.
Ready for our new story Blue Penguin and Sensory Play?
Shaving foam and Arctic Animals.
Watch out the Arctic winds are coming in.
I have an apron on!!!
The Eco-Captain making sure we reuse everyday things for our Remembrance Art.
Do you want to Dance?
More juice please Boyle!
Colour sorting and the Color Monster.
Which Monster goes where??
Hola!
Someone preferred the story in Spanish!?!?
Cause and Effect.
Finishing last weeks Recycling craft – a lot of PVA glue was used!!!
Making lots of choices.
Oh Wow!!
Someone is very pleased!
And now for some Children in Need Crafts – Bingo Dabbers!!
Note from the ECO-CAPTAIN Please save you Crisp packets – Mrs Slinger has an important use for them – they are going to be made into blankets for the Homeless ‘Get your Eco On!!’
Happy Children in Need Day 2020!!!
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Hallowe’en Week Activities
The Stars class enjoyed a fantastic Hallowe’en week. We did Hallowe’en hard work, iced biscuits and did art and craft. On Friday we dressed up and enjoyed party activities, a sociable snack and a virtual parade. We had a blast!
The Stars class were responsible citizens by planting cress seeds to grow to eat. We painted lovely Hallowe’en mugs to grow them in.
