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FAOL – SCIENCE

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This week we have been learning more about where our food comes from. We looked closely at where Milk comes from and created our own experiment to experience ‘Milking a Cow’.

After ‘Milking the Cow’, we followed a simple recipe to make Ice-cream in a Bag. We explored the ice and talked about hot & cold. We mixed the ice in a big bag with salt & then placed a smaller bag of milk inside it and shook it around to watch the milk turn into ice-cream. We found it was much harder for the chocolate milk to turn to ice-cream!

And for the best part…

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Pine Class – Successful Learners in Art

Hello!!

This week we were successful learners learning a new paint technique in Art – pulling the paint across the paper using a ruler, very effective BUT we cannot tell you what we are doing with it – it is a Christmas secret!!!

 

WOW!!!

I am a happy happy boy!!!

Ready for some Animal Boogie??

Making masks for next weeks’ MacMillan – responsible citizens.

Great friends in the Pine Room.

Sensory Cookery involves lots of skills numeracy – counting the cases, identifying the different objects and colours, working on our motor skills  and our MOVE  when we exercising our hands.

Oh no – they just jumped out of the tray!!!!

Literacy and Art – working on the letter ‘A’ – all will be revealed next week!!!

This successful learner working on her I-gaze skills!!

Confident individuals working on their matching skills.

Our fantastic 50 Things Art from last week.

More Literacy work – matching the ‘A’ pictures and  we love the Alphabet songs…

…..successful story sequencing.

Sun is out – so lets go bowling – STRIKE!!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

 

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IDL/THEME – FARM TO FORK

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The Sungazers have started our new topic ‘Farm to Fork’ and have been learning all about where our food comes. We have been discussing foods that we like & dislike, as well as foods that we think are good for our bodies.

We made a fresh snack using Farm produced foods:

We continued practising our life skills by making our own Pig Biscuits. We used a mixture of healthy and sugary foods and talked about how it is good to eat sweet treats in moderation. These treats were more of a hit in the class, believe it or not!

 

 

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FAOL – Sciences – Floating and Sinking

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We tried to guess which items would float and which items would sink. We weren’t always right! Some items even floated for a wee while then sank! We had great fun. We’ve also enjoyed a treasure hunt, made ‘star’ sandwiches and made tree pictures as we explored seasons.

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Welcome to the new Pine Class

It has been great to be back in School!

We thought we would just show you some of the things we had been getting up to since the beginning of term.

Selecting the Golden Rule we are focusing on – Number 2 – Working Together.

MOVE and working on Days of the Week.

Successful Learners in Numeracy

Knock it down!!!!

Right Respecting School – what is Right thing and what is Wrong thing to do?? These responsible citizens knew the answers.

Stretching out in MOVE

Ready for Parachute Fun!!!

Sensory Play – great fun!!!

Making Choices. – planning our MacMillan Event.

Colour Sorting in Numeracy

Confident Individuals in Art

We are Artists – ROAR!!!

We love The Wonky Donkey Story – using a single message device for the ‘Hee-Haw’ sounds.

Sensory Fun with Shaving Foam!

Band Practice!!

UNCRC Article 24 – making a poster with all the appropriate information.

Health and Well-being – Outdoor Learning.

A great afternoon Bowling. – STRIKE!!

Making Choices and place mats.

Numeracy with Spinderella, . story about a spider that wants to learn to count!

Stretching for MOVE

Autumn Art

Using Technology during Morning Group

Exploring Ingredients – Flour Sensory Play

Oh dear!!!!

Where is the hoover?

Literacy and Art

Outside in the Sunshine.

Our new Food Theme is based on the book ‘Don’t waste your Food’

We are looking at food spoilage.

Won’t look like this next week!!!!

50 Things making Art with things we have collected outside.

Smelly the lavender.

Have a great weekend everyone,

 

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50 Activities ‘Big Tree’

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We experienced the warm weather as we looked up through the branches of the big tree in the sensory garden to see if we could see the sky. We touched the bark and made bark rubbings, The leaves smelled of pine.

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WELCOME BACK SUNGAZERS!

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The Sungazers have settled into their new classroom & school routine very well. We read the story ‘Giraffe’s Can’t Dance’ and talked about all of things that we can do if we work hard! We also used Science to see if we could make raisins dance inside a bottle full of lemonade – this was fascinating!

We have enjoyed plenty of Art activities to brighten up our classroom and the Wee Den. The class have let Miss. McCreath know that they all really enjoy Science so we’ve already had plenty of science experiments and messy play!

We have a lot of photos to share next week. Have a great weekend!

The Sungazers Team x

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Welcome to a new School Year Pine Class

Well – Welcome Pinettes!!

It is lovely to see you all back at school.  Everyone has settled in really well and working very hard.

We have all been actively participating in all the Moring Group Activities, using the different AAC Devices, making choices, studying the weather and seasons, learning the days of the week, and practising our Makaton.

Enjoying the different stories we have been reading during Literacy, there are links below to a few favourites .

Oi Frog!

The Squirrels Who Squabbled

We have been successful learners in  Numeracy, we have practised our numbers skills in a variety of different ways, listening to counting songs, playing BINGO, pinning clothes peg legs on spiders (not real ones!) and counting bricks, building towers…then knocking them down!!!  We also enjoy watching Counting with Rodd.

Counting with Rodd

In Enterprise and Expressive Art we have taken impressions of our hands for our ‘Evidence Tree’, and made some cool Splash Art Monsters!!!

During our Health and Well-Being sessions, we have worked hard on our MOVE programme, enjoyed sensory play and relaxation, and had fun being outside bowling when the sun was shining.

We choose Golden Rule Number 2 – A chance to be involved, and we are planning the MacMillian Coffee Morning Event for the School.

This is only some of what we have been up to …so we have been pretty busy!!!

So have I great weekend everyone.

Take care

The Pine Ladies

x

 

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Snowdrops – Welcome Back

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Hello, it is lovely to see the Snowdrops back in school after the summer break.  Everyone is settling in well to our class routine and enjoying seeing their friends.

This term, we are running a colour theme for each day of the week.  The pupils are enjoying exploring numeracy, literacy, expressive arts and other curricular area activities through colours.  For example, Wednesday is our Yellow Day.  We enjoy listening to the song ‘Here Comes the Sun’ (Singing Hands version) and our movement for this song is swaying. We also enjoy making yellow collages, exploring what colours mix togther to make yellow, explore various yellow sensory materials, over/under write words, enjoy colour stories and practise our counting and number recognition (just to name a few!)

Below is our colour timetable for the week.  Please feel free to listen to the songs at home, joining in with the movement and talking about colours.

Monday is our  Red Day.  Clap/tap along to the song below (Singing Hands – Shine)

Tuesday is our Orange Day. Stamp/shake along to Singing Hands – Roar.

Wednesday is our Yellow Day. Sway along to Singing Hands – Here Comes The Sun

Thursday is our Green Day. Try moving your arms, stretching arms up and to the sides or giving Hi 5’s to Singing Hands – Try Everything

Friday is our Blue Day. Try some flowing and stretching movements to Singing Hands – What A Wonderful World

 

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A Warm Welcome for the New Stars Class

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The Stars class have settled in well to their new classroom and routine and have enjoyed doing activities together after the summer break. We learnt ‘All About Me’ and told our likes and dislikes, made friendship potions, discussed kind and unkind behaviours, read Rainbow Fish and made personalised flowers for our ‘Friendship Garden’ wall display. In the sensory garden we weeded and tidied our planters where we discovered potatoes, onions, carrots, nasturtiums and sweet peas which were planted by Mrs Gardner’s class last year.

 

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