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The Sunflowers have been so happy to be out in the sunshine and have enjoyed being out in the playground on the bikes and cars. Each child experienced moving at different speeds in different directions and we even had some races on the bikes and scooters too.
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The Moonbeams have loved learning about food this week through our new theme, Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs. The children have been practicing Makaton signs for days of the week and food in order to help them choose and create a weekly menu. They all looked delicious!
The children had great fun during a sensory food lesson. They were using various types of utensils and their hands to explore and play with both cooked and dry spaghetti, rice and mashed potato!
Take a look at our photos.
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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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The Sungazers have been enjoying lots of Science experiments and Sensory play since coming back after summer. Here are some of our photos to share with you.
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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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We have had a happy week in the Stars class. We enjoyed time in the garden where we had a colour hunt and checked how our garden produce was growing. We also made scones which we ate for snack with jam and printed handprints and flowers for our ‘Friendship Garden’ wall display.
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The Moonbeams have had a great first few weeks back at school. They have enjoyed exploring their new classroom and have had fun outside in the playground. The Moonbeams have started learning about their new Theme, Food and Technologies which they are learning about through the story of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Take a look at our photos.
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 .
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.
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
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It has been good to be back at school and the boys in the Asteroids class have settled in well to their new classroom, routines and their new teacher. Well done boys!
We’ve been busy discussing the school rules and making a display for our new class, we’ve talked about our emotions and feelings and made a calm bottle as well as lots of fabulous number work and literacy work!
We’re looking forward to a great year in the Asteroids! 
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
