The Snowdrops have enjoyed their first outing of the new year. We visited Tesco and had our snack in the cafe – everyone made confident choices of drinks or snacks and showed lots of interest in their surroundings. We also had some shopping to do, looking for Scottish foods. Everyone showed confidence moving around the supermarket and used a pictorial shopping list to find our Scottish foods. We will be practising spreading some cheese on our oatcakes back in class and touching or smelling the different Scottish food textures.
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Wriggly, busy Christmas
The Snowdrops have been very confident individuals this week, taking part in many different Christmas events. Our primary wriggle nativity was a great success and enjoyed by everyone! We have had a fun Christmas party with lots of party games and a special visit from Santa! The Snowdrops would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Kevin the Christmas Carrot
Kevin the carrot is a fun new Christmas character. Through Kevin’s adventures, the Snowdrops have been successfully learning new Makaton signs about Christmas, vegetables and colours. Kevin’s stories also showed us lots of different emotions and faces which we have had fun to try and copy. Everyone has made effective contributions to creating their own carrot characters using new paper craft techniques. The Snowdrops have also been recognising key Christmas pictures and exploring sounds which are being used in our nativity show.
Christmas Crafts
The Snowdrops have been very busy creating Christmas crafts and exploring Christmas smells or textures. Everyone has made effective contributions and confident choices during all our activities. We have successfully practised and been learning new skills – cutting, gluing, filling, sticking, painting and pressing textures down. There have been lots of sparkly colours to explore. After all our hard work, the class wall is looking bright, colourful and decorative!
Reindeer Visit
We had a surprise visit from some reindeer in school this week. The Snowdrops were all confident individuals approaching the reindeer very quietly and slowly. The reindeers were actually bigger than the Snowdrop pupils and we heard them make unusual noises!
Snowdrops out and about
The Snowdrops were all confident individuals on recent social outings to our local community. Everyone enjoyed a visit to the café in Morrison’s supermarket, where we made personal choices of snack and drink, sat with our friends at the table and then played together in the play area. There was lots to explore in the play area. We also did some shopping the class and the Snowdrops were very successful learners using the self scanning check-out, great work!
It’s really beginning to look like Christmas! The Christmas Market is nearly here and the whole school has contributed to decorating our atrium with Christmas trees. The Snowdrops sponge painted paper bowls and sprinkled lots of green glitter inside them. Everyone was very confident, painting their hands and stamping print patterns with yellow paint. We used gold glitter to make our hand prints sparkle and used them to create a star for the top of our tree. Come and see our tree on Saturday!
FAOL Enterprise – Popcorn Snowmen
The Snowdrops have been very busy making some special bags of popcorn for our Christmas Market. Everyone had fun listening for the many popping sounds as our popcorn cooked in the microwave. There was a lovely smell in our room and everyone enjoyed touching or tasting the freshly popped corn. Lots of effective contributions were made, helping to scoop popcorn into bags and attaching snowmen heads to the top. Please come and buy our popcorn snowmen!
The Snowdrops experienced a variety of activities relating to Children in Need. Everyone made effective contributions – giving eye-contact to Power Points on the SMARTboard, baking biscuits and decorating with spots, joining all their friends for a spotty snack and following a Pudsey hunt around school.
Growing Snowdrops
The Snowdrops have all been responsible citizens exploring the things that plants need to grow. Everyone made effective contributions – filling tubs with soil, planting seeds and giving them some water. We are going to take care of them and hope they grow into Snowdrops!