We have had an enormously busy week!
We have been learning our initial alphabet sounds and practising arranging the letters of the alphabet on puzzle boards.
In our number work we have been learning to count our fingers and toes!
We have also enjoyed construction challenges and developing our motor skills with our sensory toys.
We have also enjoyed our books in our class library.
Busy! Busy!
From next week, we look forward to bringing you news of the travels of Taylor our class mascot. He will be journeying beyond the school to see what the members of Tay class get up to!
This week has been lovely! It has been our first full week as members of Tay. We have enjoyed playing on our musical instruments, navigating the Trim Trail and enjoying lots of sand play in the Outdoor Classroom! We have also enjoyed trying out our class spinning chairs and looking at our books in our class library.
We have enjoyed a lovely first few days together as the Tay Class of 2025-2026.
We have already enjoyed many new experiences with each other and look forward to many, many, more as our year unfolds…We hope that you can join us along the way!
Prior to the February holiday Tay Class made bird feeders using apple slices. peanut butter and bird seed. They’re super quick and easy to make – why don’t you have a try? We hung ours around the Trim Trail so we could observe them and see how quickly the birds eat them.
As a treat and to end our ‘Hot and Cold’ science topic we had some ice cream cones. They were delicious! We chose from either vanilla, strawberry or chocolate. We are planning to do a pictogram to show our favourite flavours across the class, however some of the class were absent which means we will need to have more ice-cream another day. Will our choices will be the same next time?
It was great to have everyone back in class last week after the break. We quickly settled back into our routines.
We met some friends and adults from other classes in our Sensory Committee, out at the Trim Trail. There were balloons, ice, paint blocks, brushes, spray bottles with watery paint and paper. Many of us enjoyed exploring these resources.
There was a huge cardboard box in the outdoor classroom. One of our favourite activities ‘What’s in the box?’ changed to ‘who’s in the box?’ Everyone had a turn in the box. Some of us had lots of turns. It was great fun!- We did so well to take turns and share (a very small) space.
What a difference a week can make… Tay Class had time playing outdoors on the grass now all the snow has melted.
We had a visit to the trim trail with Rannoch Class which we really enjoyed especially as we haven’t been there for a while. AE and AH loved playing in the big puddle and did really well taking turns with one another.
We listened to and watched songs about ‘Hot and Cold’ and did a few follow-up activities. We’ll continue this topic next week.
Our favourite stories this week were ‘Arnie and the Donut’ and ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
Mrs McMaster had the big climbing frame and ladder out for us at PE. We did so well balancing, climbing and challenging ourselves on this. Fantastic Tay Class!
Everyone quickly settled back into our school routines this week after the Christmas holidays.
There was lots of snow to explore in the big school field! Sledging was lots of fun. The children used their communication and turn-taking skills. They showed great determination too! Well done Tay Class.
Tay class had a great time today at the Christmas party. We all enjoyed some delicious ice cream and other treats when we got back to class.
Last week we continued with our literacy and numeracy learning. We enjoyed PE with Mrs McMaster – especially the big climbing frame and ladder. We made some Christmas cards…so look out Mums and Dads for these coming home in our bags this week.
Below are photos of some us engaged in play during ‘Choose Time’ last week.
The class listened to a story called ‘Leaf Man’ by Lois Ehlert. We then created some people of our own using leaves.
We’ve continued to learn about money, time and shape. This week we’ve been learning about repeating patterns. We listened to/watched songs about patterns and H enjoyed dancing along to one of them too. We also did some pattern activities on the iPads. We’ve continued to practice our phonics through songs and activities. We’ve practiced our listening skills through activities on the iPads. We’ve listened to stories and explored the books in class. Some of us came to school in pyjamas today to celebrate world book day.
We’ve enjoyed time outdoors in the playground, field, outdoor class and the trim trail. It’s been very chilly this week so many of us were delighted at the contents of ‘What’s in the box?’ yesterday: hot chocolate, marshmallows and cream! We mixed up our own. Two of the class drank/ate all three things. Some of us just liked the cream and marshmallows.
We’ve celebrated several birthdays in class too. ‘A’ has been singing ‘Happy Birthday’ regularly over the past two months so he was very excited to celebrate his own birthday and hear people singing to him. His big smile says it all!
Tay class did some process art inspired by photos, songs and videos of Autumn. We explored the colours: mixing different colours both on the palette and on the paper.
We continued our ‘All about Me’ topic. We watched and listened to songs about bones and created skeleton pictures with different types of pasta. ‘Dem bones, dem bones dem dry bones…’.
We listened to the colour monster story and sorted some different pictures into groups: sad, happy or angry.
