Tag: Snowdrops

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.

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 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.

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!

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!

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!

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!