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Science Week and Holi in the Pine Room.

This week was Holi – the Indian Festival of Colour, below is a lovely link telling you all about it. We made some lovely colourful pictures, using paint and rulers.

Jalebi Street

Science Week – all about the Senses – what can you hear???

March showers…

lovely artwork for this group of successful learners, counting and identifying the shapes.

What does this smell like – more science.

SQA Numeracy – subtraction. Using our counting songs, props and Makaton skills.

SQA Cookery, we made science cupcake!

Following the instruction….

… and now for the science bit!!!

They were yummy!!!

And now the sense of taste….didn’t like this one!!!!

This week’s letter was ‘O’ in literacy– how many words can you find that start with the letter O?

Our confident individual made lovely artwork for their alphabet books – using oranges and orange paint to print.

SQA Communication, we started Encanto this week, and started making lovely pictures of Mirabel using different materials.

Science – more hearing experiments watching the vibration created by the drum – which made the rice dance!!

IDL work – Mr Benn and the Caveman, we made dinosaur shapes in salt dough and hatching baby dinosaur.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

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Fair Trade, Careers Week and World Book Day …what a busy week!

SQA Numeracy  – we were building up bricks and counting them, and colour sorting beanbags.

Fair trade SQA cookery for these responsible citizens, using our skills to measure, sieve, count paper cases and get all the ingredients into the big mixer. We made Muffins, using Fair Trade Chocolate and Bananas.

Great results!!!

This week in Literacy our letter was ‘M’, we looked for words around the classroom that started with this letter – can you think of any? Then we made lovely Monkey pictures for our alphabet books,

SQA Communication we matched the characters up with their colours. Do you know which character in ‘Inside Out’ is which colour???

Helping my friend.

One of our Books for World Book Day was Dinosaur Roar, we learned interested facts about different Dinosaurs, coloured in our choice of Dinosaur….

counted the different dinosaurs, and walked in their footsteps. ROAR!!!!!

This week we National Careers Week, we looked at different careers we have in the community. Throughout the week we linked our activities to different careers – we have been builders, cooks, artists, designers, writers, historians and paleontologists!!!

Dressing up for World Book Day.

Miss Trunchbull this Superhero isn’t scared of you!!

Welcome to the Pine Room Christopher Robin!

IDL Theme Mr Benn’s story The Red Knight, we pretended we were Knights and Dragons!!

Then looked through magazines, made choices and then made shields.

Then these effective contributors helped their friend walk the Dinosaur trail – count up to 10, then count backwards!!!

Have a fab weekend everyone

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Valentine’s Counting in the Pine Class

Some photos from last week’s Chinese New Year Activities.

Some Winter Art for these confident individuals.

This week in Numeracy we counted and ordered coloured Hearts – just in time for Valentines – what successful learners!

We had fun in SQA Cookery -sieving, mixing and shaping heart shaped biscuits.

SQA Communication we are still working on Inside Out and painted paper plates different colours, purple for the character Fear and green for Disgust.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!!!

 

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Chinese New Year in the Pine Room

This week in the Pine Room we have been celebrating Chinese New Year.  We painted fans, decorating them with Tigers, and made Dragons with long colourful tissue paper tails. We watched exciting videos of dancing Chinese Dragons and listened to some tranquil Chinese music. In cookery we made our version of fruit sushi (we know that is Japanese – but oh well!!)

Links below to some stories about Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year 2

In Literacy we have been working on the Letter J, and made some colourful Jellyfish pictures for our alphabet books, and searched for words beginning with that letter – how many J words can you find at home?

The J Song

SQA Communication we continued with Inside Out and focused on the emotion Anger this week.

We have been rounding up our Scottish Theme ‘Hamish McHaggis and the Edinburgh Adventure’ and looked at the last character ……the Pine Martin.

Pine Marten’s Webcam

We read the story for the last time, laughed at some funny Scottish words, watched some Highland dancing and listened to some traditional Scottish Music – we like the bagpipes in the Pine Room.

Today we did some Winter Art and then watched the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, the colours and the music were fantastic!!!

Sorry we have no photos this week BUT Wilson has been posting too many and we have run out of space!!!!!  But our IT Superhero Mr Campbell will be coming to our rescue!!

Have a lovely weekend everyone

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Burns and more in the Pine Room.

This successful learner has been using his numeracy skills to count the magnetic…

…then used then to successfully help weigh out our cake ingredients.

Successful Learning – sieving and mixing for SQA Baking

Now using our numeracy skills to count the paper cases.

Think they are ready for the oven!!

We have been listening to lots of Scottish music and stories this week – but the Highland Dancing was a real favourite for this young lady. And on the 25th we enjoyed the Transition Classes Virtual Burns Supper.

SQA Communication we made 5 sensory bottles, one for each of the Inside Out Characters, using a funnel to put in small coloured beads, glitter and sequin.

We also managed a little bit of sensory play too.

Making Kilts for Burns Day, counting colours as we go!

Our kilts display.

We are continuing to work on some Scottish Animals, this week Badgers…we will show them next week they may take a few days for the glue to dry!!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

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This week in the Pine Room

Successful Learner using the AAC Device to tell us how he is feeling at Morning Group.

Fun making Confetti Pictures.

Our lovely Scottish Art Display, that we have been working on for our IDL.

Confident Individuals working with the stickle bricks in Numeracy.

Using the light box and gel numbers in Numeracy.

SQA Baking working on our mixing skills to make Krispy Cakes.

Touching all the different ingredients…snap, crackle and pop!!

SQA Communication – we started watching the film Inside Out, we have also looked at ICE Pack ‘How I feel?’ and talked about what gave us JOY and what made us SAD.

Painting character plates.

 

 

For our 50 Things we painted with things we found in the garden – very cool!!

This week in literacy our letter was ‘I’ words starting with I are hard to find BUT we managed!! And made some lovely ice-cream pictures.

Have a great weekend!!

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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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