The Beech class have been working hard and developing their confidence and skills in literacy this week. Here we are taking part in a variety of activities whilst being very confident individuals.
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Pom Pom Snowmen
We had lots of fun using our fine motor skills to create a very fluffy snowman.
We were successful learners and watched a demonstration before working independently to fill our bottles.
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IDL: Science – Antarctic Animals
Successful Learners Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams have been learning about animals in Antarctica. We learned how Penguins, Seals and Whales keep warm in freezing cold conditions. These animals have layers of blubber. The pupils tested this for themselves. They put a finger in ice water and felt that it was very cold and then they put a finger covered in ‘blubber’ in the ice water. Some children said it felt “nice” and others were able to keep their fingers in the icy water for longer.
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Meet our class elf – Sonny!
Confident Individuals
On Tuesday, our class elf Sonny arrived! We were all really excited to meet him and loved to listen to a story about him. He has been very naughty already! Sonny brought us an elf advent calendar and we are enjoying adding a pompom to his hat each day.
Sonny has helped us get into the Christmas spirit and this week we have enjoyed an elf hunt. We have searched for parts of our coloured elves and built them. Everyone has enjoyed decorating Christmas tree biscuits and Rudolph Reindeers too.
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Number Work
Successful Learners
The Sunflower class have enjoyed building and matching numbers to 20 this week. We have all worked really hard with our number blocks to build number towers. We have also used numicon and counting cards and have searched in coloured rice to find the matching number of objects.
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
The children enjoyed looking at Christmas card designs and making a choice of design. The children signed ‘Penguin’ and ‘Snowman’ and chose who they would like to send their card to. All pupils demonstrated their learning successes by tracing or writing their names in the card. Take a look at the Moonbeams magnificent Christmas Cards.
The Transition boys were Confident Individuals when they filled out charts to tell how they were feeling about either leaving school or about how they feel about their friends leaving school.
The boys in Transition were Successful Learners as they worked through their numeracy and literacy tasks. Some tasks were group activities and the boys were Effective Contributors. The literacy and numeracy tasks are beginning to take on a Christmas flavour.
Helping Santa deliver presents numeracy task
Reading and answering about the history of Christmas
The Beech class enjoyed celebrating St. Andrew’s Day this year by making colourful tartan kilts! The class were successful learners as they learned all about the story of St. Andrew and celebrated Scottish culture by making their own tartan.
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Pine Class Learning at Home 2
Hello Pinettes – How are you all doing?
Have you read or watched the story ‘Yellow is my Colour Star’? Did you make lots of colour choices?
What is your favourite colour?
Another story for you to listen too and enjoy. 
What did you think of Lara’s yellow wings?
We have put some other links on this week’s blog if you are looking for some different ideas.
The weather has been really cold this week – have any of you been out for a Winters Walk? What did you see? Was it really cold? Did you get all wrapped up?
Below are links to some different Winters songs. 
We all love Frozen in the Pine Room – some pretend they don’t! Below is a link to some Olaf Fun – he is our favourite!! 
Lots of different ideas for some Winter crafting fun in the link below. 
If you want to practice your signing – what about the weather signs.
The BBC Bitesize has lots of cool science information. 
Practice your counting with Bud the Bee in his Number Garden. 
This is the perfect weather for making soup. 
Can you help pick out the ingredients? What colours are the vegetables? Did you help peel or chop? Was your soup tasty?
The Pine Ladies have been searching for some yellow things in the room.
Well have a great week Pinettes.
Love The Pine Ladies
