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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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LGBT History in the Pine

This week we have been carrying out some activities for LBGT History Month.

We were creative and confident individuals and used shaving foam and the LBGT colours – red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple to create some interesting art work.

We have also been reading and enjoying different stories and talking about them,  below are links to a few favourites.

The Big Orange Splot

Tango makes Three

The Flamingo that didn’t want to be Pink🦩

We are Family

SQA Numeracy, a favourite addition activity for these successful individuals  playing skittles and counting up how many we knock down each time.

Working on our literacy skills, looking for the letters and making the letter sounds, then practising the alphabet with the some of our favourite songs.

In SQA Communication we were deciding which character was our favourite, making lots of choices.

Have a lovely 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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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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Welcoming the New Year in the Pine Room!

We are all very happy to be back at school with our friends.

We have been working on our addition skills for our SQA Numeracy Unit by using the large building blocks, playing Dominoes and watching some number videos we especially like Addition with Rodd.

Counting with Rodd, Adding 2 to 2

SQA Baking this week involved making some shortbread for sensory play, we mixed it up, rolling it and stretched it and squashed it – it smelt really good!!

We have been successful learners in literacy concentrating on the letter ‘H’ making the sound, looking for words that start with that letter, and then we made some lovely Horse pictures for our alphabet books.

SQA Communication we have started studying Inside Out, so we watched a little bit of the film and we are going to decorate plates to look like all of the characters, starting with ‘JOY’

Our IDL Theme this term is Scotland, we are reading Hamish McHaggis and the Edinburgh Adventure, we learned some more Scottish Words and made Haggis Pictures, using different colours and textures of wool.

Even while doing your MOVE you can’t get out of doing your Art work!!

We played a game of Haggis Drive, using our new big dice.

Who’s Haggis will be completed first?

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Pine class welcome in November.

Our Eco Vice Captain was being a responsible citizen and showing her support for COP26.

SQA Numeracy is always better fun when there is Dominoes involved!!!

Counting up and making choices – what successful learners we are!!

SQA Baking – we were voting on what we are going to make, will it be pizza, scones, cupcakes or chocolate chip cookies???

And the winner was Chocolate Chip Cookies!!!

In Literacy we are still working on the Letter D – this week we made Doughnuts(not real ones!!) for out Alphabet Books.

Lots of careful ripping, sticking and of course glittering!!

Remember, remember the 5th of November! Fireworks night soon, we make some cool pictures, using a different art technique – effective!!!

We have been responsible citizens and keeping ourselves informed via  Global Goals online.

Thursday was a lovely afternoon so we went outside to the playground.

Have a great weekend everyone.

 

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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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