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As part of our topic Big Days, Bright Lights we are exploring a story about the Northern Lights this week. Our story is The Curious Polar Bear. Today we enjoyed exploring the props to the story, especially the lights.

We have practiced our fine motor skills with a range of threading and use of tools within activities.

In baking we made shortbread biscuits and decorated them using different coloured icing to make Northern Light biscuits.

We have been practising really well for our Christmas performance.

Our outdoor learning afternoon with yellow class enabled us to explore ice play, chalk painting, igloos making and a relaxation session with colourful lights.

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Our annual decoration making for St Paul’s involves decorating candles this year. We used our Attention Autism session to create some beautiful candles.

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This week is Arts Week and we are exploring the theme ‘Wild Things’. We will be creating lots of animal themed art work linked to different artists and art styles throughout the week, that we can’t wait to show off at the art gallery.

Our story this week is The Party Animals, which links to our Key Stage theme of celebrations and our Arts Week topic of Wild Things. It is a story about some very noisy monkeys who love to party through the night.

In Maths we enjoyed a group game of snakes and ladders, practising our number skills. In shape, space and measure we have been measuring objects using cubes.

We have been working hard in Literacy practising our letter sounds, picture recognition, environmental sounds and doing our names.

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The celebration we are looking at this week is Birthdays. Our story is We’re Going to a Birthday Party, which is about a rabbit collecting everything they need for the party along the way. The children really enjoyed this story.

In maths we have been exploring measure using non-standard units to measure objects. This was a fun new activity. We have also been practising using our number knowledge in different ways including making a birthday graph!

During our Art lesson we made a piñata by using paper mache on a balloon, we will use the piñata in our outdoor learning afternoon with Yellow Class.

In sensory baking we followed instructions to make fairy cakes and decorated them using icing and sprinkles.

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Colour note recognition and rhythm

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This week we have been learning about Remembrance Day. For our Literacy we have explored a Remembrance Day Poem which has shown us the most important aspects including the poppies, the silence and remembering brave people.

We have enjoyed poppy art and made some absolutely amazing masterpieces painting a poppy field.

For our outdoor learning with Yellow Class we explored a tuff tray, making salt dough poppies, painting and poppy biscuits.

In maths we have continued exploring heavy and light comparing similar items of different weights to see which is heavier or lighter.

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This week as part of our topic Big Days, Bright Lights we have explored fireworks, Bonfire night and firework safety. Our story was Sparks in the Sky and we loved the big confetti cannon of fireworks.

In maths we have started to explore mass, looking at heavy and light by using sensory materials to fill and pour into the weighing buckets.

We made edible sparklers using breadsticks, chocolate or icing and sprinkles.

We enjoyed our outdoor learning session with Yellow Class where we learnt about Guy Fawkes and made our own Guy. We also did some outdoor painting and explored building castles using building blocks.