So far this term Primary A have been very busy.  Nativity rehearsals have us all prepared for our upcoming perormances and we hope you are as excited as we are to see it.

As a class we decided we would like to donate one of our sensory elves.  We felt that the Children’s Ward at Crosshouse is somewhere that many of our pupils experience and we wanted to give back.  Chloe helped to package up our Elf and post it off to them.  We hope they got a lovely surprise and that their Elf isn’t up to too much mischief 😁

CR posting an Elf to the boys and girls in hospital.

On Monday the 4th of December we visited Ardrossan Library.  Lara read us a story all about Ice Cream and then we did some arts and crafts, making an ice cream picture.  Our pictures are on display in the library.  Lara very kindly presented each of us with a Book Bag to take home.

Book Gifting at Ardrossan Library

We LOVED the pantomime.  We had great fun dancing and singing along with the music and watching lots of different characters.  Harry was particularly excited when a Minion made an appearance 🙂

It’s Panto Time!

Debbie brought her puppy Ozy into school to see us and we all spent some time clapping him and watching him explore our classroom.  Ozy was very calm and sat for us to touch him and feel his soft fur.  He even did some tricks for us  🐶

A visit from Ozy

Shaun from Sensory Guru helped us to experience and explore a Magic Carpet when he brought it to our Christmas Fayre.  It was AMAZING and we are very excited to be able to donate towards this from our Elf fundraising.  We all spent time exploring the different apps and activating the carpet through movement.  We all tried different activities and were able to show our favourites through our facial expressions and vocalisations.

Experiencing the Magic Carpet

On Monday 11th December we joined Primary B to attend the Variety Club Party at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow.  There was music, dancing, puppeteers, party poppers and even Santa came to see us.  We had a wonderful time and want to thank everyone at the Variety Club for inviting us and for the gifts they gave.

Great fun at the Variety Club Christmas Party in Glasgow

There has been lots of sensory play in between Nativity rehearsals and all of our other activities but making snow and having snowball fights was our favourite.  We made the snow together then had great fun getting messy.  Lots of work on gross and fine motor (as well as working our tummy muscles through laughing 😂).

Snow much Fun!

Mr Bubbles has been keeping us busy and we have to find him every morning.  He loves to hide and surprise us.  We have found him hiding in Harry’s chair, on top of the Christmas Tree and even sliding down a tinsel zip slide.  We are using our problem solving skills to find him and see what mischief he has managed.

Mr Bubbles has been up to mischief

Today was our Christmas Party and we all wore lovely Christmassy outfits.  We danced, played some games and waited very well for Santa to call our names.  He even had gifts for us.  We are all very lucky.

Christmas Party fun

We hope you can join us for our Nativity Performance and if anyone has photos of their Elves having fun we would love to have them so we can share them all with you.

Thank you.

PA

Primary A have been getting into the Christmas Spirit with a visit to the Christmas Shop in Dalry.  Everyone was very excited to see all of the different decorations and lights.  It was a lovely sensory experience for all of us with lots to see, touch and feel.

The Christmas Trees were a favourite with many different colours and different types of lights.  Some flashed and others changed slowly which captured everyone’s attention.

CD found santa 🎅 Good Looking 👍

HS looking at lots of different lights

CR exploring different colours on the Christmas Trees

HS asking May if he can wear the head lights.  Please???

CR looking at the snow ornaments. They are very sensory.

CD encountering a large Christmas tree with lots of different colours.

Dalry Christmas Shop

Our Primary A Elves have been very very busy over the last few weeks.  We have been making and gathering up all of the resources within our elf pack.  Some of the Elves missed the post and landed in our Sensory Garden meaning we had to go on an Elf Hunt.

Christmas  has begun in Primary A with our workshop and the beginning of our crafts for Christmas Fayre.  Lots of exciting times ahead.

HS and CD are very proud of their hard work.

CR finding the elves that were hiding in our Sensory Garden.

CD posting some of our Elves to their adoptive families.

HS helping Kelly with some laminating. He’s a very busy boy.

CD organising resources into bundles ready for packaging.

HS showing CD the Elves that have arrived for adoption.

Halloween has brought lots of fun exploring with our senses and getting messy through sensory play with pumpkins, spaghetti and ice.  We have been exploring these through touch, taste and smell.

We have decorated our classroom with lights, Halloween toys and pictures.  We dressed up for our party and turned our Sensory Studio into a spooky cave which we shared with Primary D.

LH tracking the lights on Debbie’s Halloween hair

CD exploring science – foaming fun inside a pumpkin

HS using his senses to explore our Halloween themed Sensory Studio

Selfie before our Halloween Party

CR exploring our new class light. She moved it around creating different patterns on the wall.

PA activities &decorated Sensory Studio