All posts by Miss Smith

Trip to E.T. and Taing House

Shereen and everyone at Day Care invited us for another visit.  We made lovely lighthouses and created our own fish pictures for a display at Day Care.  We shared snack with the service users and they had also made us gorgeous fish magnets to take home too!  We used our communication and creative meta skills.  When we got back to class, we made ‘Thank You’ cards to send to the Service Users as well as Shereen and all of the team at Day Care.

Making Butter

To continue our STEM learning, we’ve been discussing where our food comes from and we worked together to make some butter.  We enjoyed our butter spread on some gluten free bread.  Our follow up activity was to write instructions on how to make butter from shaking/agitating double cream/whipped cream.  It was so fun!   We used our collaborative and creative meta skills.

STEM – Technology – Micro:bits

We’ve been exploring new hardware in the form of Micro:bits and accessing BBC Make Code software, to develop our coding skills.   We created coded sequences to make a flashing heart and then extended our learning by inserting our own code to include letters or other pictures, within the flashing heart sequence.  We used our creativity and curiosity meta skills.  We will continue to extend our knowledge throughout Term 4.

 

Visit to E.T. and Taing House for a Teddy Bears’ Picnic/Heart Craft

We had a really nice time today; visiting the Day Care setting and spending time with the service users.   The service users were very kind and made us teddies, which we could take home.   Our thanks goes out to them all!    We also decorated wooden hearts and enjoyed colouring time.  It was lovely to be able to have a chat with the people visiting Day Care today.  They kindly shared snack with us too!  Some of the service users commented on how respectful and kind our class are.   Thank you to all who helped today and Shereen, Rosie, Stacey, Laina and all staff at Day Care.   We shall continue to build on these links to the community.