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We have really enjoyed welcoming the children to Orange class. They have settled in so well.

This week they have enjoyed exploring their new surroundings, playing alongside each other in the role play area.

We have explored Maths activities including counting, sorting and colours.

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Our story this week is Mixed: A Colourful Story. The children enjoyed exploring the props linked to the characters as we introduced the story.

We have enjoyed our first bucket session, exploring emotions and faces within the session.

In Art we explored self portraits, following our bucket session.

During sensory baking we explored our communication, making gingerbread biscuits. We poured, scooped, mixed and rolled our ingredients to make dough and used cutters to cut out our shapes.

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This week our story is Rainbow Fish, we have loved exploring the props. We particularly liked the shiny sequin fabric and disco lights to show of his glittering scales.

We will be exploring sharing and turn taking with our friends this week, just like in the story.

In bucket we loved the toys and watching Ally make a play dough face, before having a go ourselves. For Art we explored Picasso faces using shapes and colours.

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We have been working hard to make our cards which will be sent home this week! The children have done an amazing job!

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This week we have enjoyed our new story called ‘You choose’, it has enabled us to practice our communication and have lots of fun dressing up.

In maths we have explored 2D shapes. We have also been recognising numbers including groups of ‘more’ and ‘less’.

We had lots of fun in music, recognising notes and playing sequences of familiar songs.

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We explored making shapes with our bodies!

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We combined our Art this week with our RSHE exploring what we’re good at!

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Our story this week is Owl Babies. We have explored characters and settings through the story, exploring what the nest is made of.

In Art we enjoyed moving to music, with lava lamp effects on the board. We then chose whether to use our hands or feet to make marks and everyone chose to take a dip with their feet! We made some lovely group art pictures.

We explored numbers through maths, making quantities and drawing quantities. Also we looked at colour patterns through our attention Autism session, then used potatoes to print colour patterns in maths.

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We loved exploring moving through paint leaving footprints everywhere!

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Our story for the next two weeks is The Colour Monster, we have had lots of sensory props to explore alongside the story. In maths we have sorted shapes with our shape monsters and explored colouring by numbers.

We have had lots of creative activities this week, decorating our own emotions jar, identifying the colours of the monsters and the emotions they link to. In Art we explored self portraits taking inspiration from Van Gogh and his swirl style.

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This week we have continued our story The Colour Monster. The children have done really well naming characters, colours and exploring emotions.

In PE we did great sharing, turn taking and following instructions to complete activities.

We are all enjoyed our Attention Autism sessions, we have been settling in and getting back to routines. The children sitting really well to through to stage 2.

The children enjoyed labelling parts of the body independently our science lesson.

In music we are recognising coloured notes and are beginning to explore playing sequences of notes to play familiar songs, this week we all enjoyed Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

We have been really cementing our understanding of number and quantities in maths, using numberlines and visuals to support us.

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We explored sounds pouring rice onto tambourines and listening to the sounds it created.

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We did some sensory potion making

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Exploring our senses, likes and dislikes

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On Monday we spent the day exploring the Hindu festival Diwali. We explored a sensory story in class and did a story yoga session in soft play.

For the rest of the week we have been exploring Autumn and Halloween activities. Our story has been ‘We’re Going on a Pumpkin Hunt’, we explored props linked to the story. We have enjoyed lots of messy play including gloop, rice and jelly, with spooky Halloween shapes.

We have enjoyed lots of activities involving pumpkins such as painting, washing and carving them.

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We talked about feelings and emotions. Including things we do when we’re happy, sad and angry. We also talked about how we could ask for help when we are feeling sad or angry to help us feel calm and happy again.