Robins

Following on from our Firefighters week, we have been exploring 'Police' making neon patterns and collages for police cars and sitting in a real Police Car! We have enjoyed singing our different emergency services songs to help us count and we have used jigsaws to help build Police and Fire fighters.

We have also made ladybird pizzas as part of World Book Day and shared our favourite stories!

We celebrated Science week with the theme of 'time', we have planted cress and have been watching it grow, explored seasons through our Attention Autism activities and watched balloons expand as they fill with air from our fizzy experiments.

This week we have been celebrating Spring and Easter with lots of Easter crafts and songs. We have been modelling and using communication boards to help us choose what materials we need or which songs we would like to sing.

We have also enjoyed making some Easter nests for us to take home!

We have had a very exciting couple of weeks reading our story, 'What the ladybird heard' we have all enjoyed holding the different animals, mark making in chocolatey mud and making animal sounds. We have also been exploring firefighters this week we have been role playing putting out fires and trying on a real fire fighter costume! We have also opened up a Doctor's surgery in our classroom and hero dressing up corner.

Our topic for Spring Term 2 is Heroes. We are hoping to meet different people from the emergency services. We look forward to sharing photos of our experiences! Our Key Text for this term is 'What the Ladybird Heard'!

We have been so busy this term exploring colour in many different ways. We have enjoyed mixing colours using pipettes and food colouring. Listening and following instructions brilliantly. We also enjoyed using practising our knife skills cutting different coloured fruits. We have been matching shapes and exploring fruit and vegetables in our class shop. To end the term we have also been making pancakes- we had lots of fun trying to toss the pretend ones in the frying pan!

We love our music sessions with Alison. The children had lots of fun exploring the chime bars today. We also had lots of fun playing parachute games and using the different coloured silks to enhance our story of the week; 'The Colour Monster'. 

Welcome to the Spring Term!

Our topic is 'Colour' and our Key Text is 'The Colour Monster'. This week we have started exploring colour through 'Rainbows'. Exploring feathers in the tuff tray and finding the matching colour symbol, as well as singing the rainbow song. We have also been painting our own rainbows and practicing the large arch movement with a paintbrush. We look forward to sharing our photos with you.

We were so lucky to have Lyndsey from roaming reptiles visit us last week! We all enjoyed being able to touch the animals and learn all about them. We have also continued some activities following reading our 'Hairy Maclary' story. This week we have started lots of Christmas activities, as well as rehearsing for our KS1 nativity performance. 

We have continued our 'Pets' topic this week beginning our new story of the week, 'Hairy Maclary'. We have now set up our class 'Pet Shop' after visiting Pets at Home last week we are very interested and excited to use the shop! 

We have all enjoyed starting our 'Pets' topic this week. We have been exploring the 'Dear Zoo' sensory story listening to and participating in the Dear Zoo songs and using instruments to make animal sounds. We have been rescuing animals in the tuff spot tray and finding the symbol to match. We have been building zoo animal cages out of blocks and playdough, practicing finding and giving one animal. We are in the process of building our own class pet shop too!

Welcome to Robins class page! We are looking forward to an exciting term ahead. We are beginning our traditional tale topic with lots of sensory activities focusing around the story of 'The Gingerbread man'.We will be singing nursery rhyme songs to support our stories such as The Gingerbread man, The three little pigs and Goldilocks and the three bears. There will be lots of communication focus throughout every day using communication board and/ or PECs.
We will be sending home reading books each evening please look out for these and 

the information to support enclosed.
Please could we ask for any weekend news updates to be shared on class dojo as it is so nice to chat with the children about what they have been doing. Please do share anything at all, we love to hear how the children are, photos are welcome!
Just to make you aware we have swimming slots on a Wednesday, please can we ask for swimming kits and swimmers to be sent in on this day.

Thank you,

Holly, Natalie and Robins Class Team