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This week we have enjoyed exploring lots of activities linked to children’s mental health week and Valentine’s Day.

Our theme for children’s mental health week has been This Is My Place, so we have been looking at a sense of belonging. We have also explored lots of activities the children enjoy and promoted lots of shared play opportunities.

The children have had fun in music exploring the instruments and ODD music balls. We did soothe and groove in class which was a fun physical activity.

For Valentine’s Day we have explored art activities and size through maths exploring big and small. We have enjoyed sensory baking making jam tarts and valentines cakes!

We also had a fun pamper afternoon exploring hair brushing, foot spas, relaxation through massage and sensory play.

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Our new story is ‘Whatever Next’, we will be exploring space and the world around us as part of this story.

In maths we explored counting with ‘moon rocks’ and using body boards/the exercise ball to incorporate some sensory into our maths.

We have enjoyed playing literacy games, practising our letter sounds. Also we have thought about what we’d take to space, making lists and exploring colourful semantics to make sentences to say what is happening in the story.

During sensory baking we made jam tarts as something we’d take on our picnic to the moon.

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Today we explored the ODD ball. You can bounce, twist, roll, throw, spin and shake it. This creates a pattern on the iPad screen and plays different parts of the song. The children had lots of fun!

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Our music listening theme is World music, today we enjoyed a game of musical chairs listening to songs from around the world.

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We are continuing reading our story The Leaf Thief, this week the children have explored colourful semantics to say what they can see happening in the pictures. They have explored writing activities to share what they can see in pictures and reading activities to show understanding of the story.

In sensory baking we enjoyed making cheese twists, making our own dough and cutting it ourselves.

This week in maths we have explored tall and short through Attention Autism and then collecting information in a graph to see which columns are tall and which are short. We also explored number games on the interactive board.

During art and outdoor learning we have explored the work of Andy Goldsworthy’s nature art, the children are really enjoying recreating shapes he uses within his work. We love circles and spirals!

Music was a huge success this week with all children exploring sounds, colour notes or playing songs using the chime bars.

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This week our story has been The Leaf Thief, which is helping us to explore seasons and the world around us, noticing change.

In sensory baking we made squirrel, acorn and leaf shaped biscuits.

We had a fantastic communication sessions using visuals to support our use of language and listening to prompts.

In music we enjoyed boomwhackers, playing songs and exploring making music on the interactive screen.

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This week we are continuing read The Gruffalo story. We have explored colourful semantics and describing activities linked to characters in the story.

In maths we have been investigating length recognising long and short, exploring how we can make long and short snakes using Playdough and printing long and short lines with paint.

It is life skills week this week and we have been enjoying taking part in cooking activities, making our own breakfast, delivery activities - working from a list to deliver items to people around school and being Dr’s. We have explored life skills around personal care, taking care of our bodies and tidying up. Lots of us also enjoyed dressing up for the occasion. In outdoor learning we explored road safety, recognising road signs and keeping safe.

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This week we have started our new topic What on Earth…

Our story is The Gruffalo and we are exploring habitats within the story. The children have really enjoyed exploring the characters and props linked to parts of the story.

In maths we have explored size and started with big and small, sorting objects by size and enjoying cause and effect toys.

We have done some fantastic work in phonics, writing and communication activities this week.

On the sensory playground we had lots of fun communicating, initiating play and joining in activities with our friends.