This week Pines went to visit Newcastle airport. We enjoyed travelling on the Metro and were super sensible dealing with lots of delays! We went for a walk through the airport and looked at the check in desks and found a big ‘no entry’ safety sign. However, the most exciting part of our visit was watching the planes take off, we enjoyed waving the passengers off on their holidays and watching the planes disappear into the clouds!
Cherries and Pines visited Marsden beach with Tides of Change to build a shelter, search for sea life and play some sand games. Even though the weather was very wet and rainy we didn’t let that deter us from finding some crabs, jellyfish, periwinkles and sea anemones in the rock pools. Discussing fossils, the danger of the cliffs, finding sea glass and digging in the sand.
A very wet, but great visit!
This week has been very warm! We took our art lesson outdoors for some sensory paint splatting fun watching the colours mix on the paper. We enjoyed blowing some bubbles and enjoyed a visit to the local park. At the park we were requesting a push on the swing and interacting with our friends on the see-saw. To help us prepare for future visits to place and learn about safety we have been practising reading safety signs we read some common ones together like toilets/ exit/ hospital and then played a matching game to match road safety signs. Well done Pines!
This term our DT topic is ‘Chop, slice and mash!’. This week we looked at different ways to prepare fruits and vegetables and the vocabulary used. After watching a demonstration each child in Pines took turns to chop some celery, slice a cucumber, mash a banana, grate a carrot, peel an apple and tear some lettuce. Everyone did an excellent job following the instructions. The following day in literacy we recalled what we did and matched the vocabulary to our photographs.
Cherries and Pines enjoyed some integrated child initiated learning in the sun today. They were excellent at sharing resources, waiting their turn and respecting boundaries for children who didn’t want to get wet.
This week some parents came into school to see our amazing science work around plants. We used stickers to decorate plant pots and then worked with our parents to add soil and sunflower seeds- we can’t wait to see who’s grows the tallest!
Before the workshop the children in Pines made and decorated some biscuits to eat with their parents- aren’t they amazing!
This week Pines went on a sunny walk to the park. We enjoyed playing on the equipment and balancing on the see-saw with a friend. On the way back to school we looked for flowers as part of our science work and enjoyed a picnic on the grass.
This week in Pines we have enjoyed exploring musical instruments! We practised playing fast and slow drum beats and loud and quiet beats!
In history we have been watching videos about schools in the past, we then had an elocution lesson practising balancing a bean bag on our heads whilst moving around the classroom.
We also had a special visitor in class this week- two lovely rabbits, we were all very gentle and calm around them.
To celebrate the Coronation we each created a flag and a wonderful crown. We had to use our fine motor skills to cut jewels and place gems carefully around the crown. We watched videos and learnt lots about the crown jewels, we used PECS symbols to identify all the colours in the crown. We practised taking turns playing a Coronation themed ‘pairs’ game turning over 2 picture cards at a time, some of us even used our phonics to read the words on the cards. In maths we had to use our number skills to read the number on the crown and count out the correct amount of items. We also enjoyed a very fun game of ‘pin the diamond on the crown’, there was lots of laughter watching our friends try and pin the diamond while blindfolded!
Our latest topic for Design and Technology has been ‘Taxi!’. We have been investigating things with wheels and identifying wheels on lots of things. We looked at lots of different Taxis and watched them drive. We coloured in a picture of what we wanted our Taxi to look like and then painted our box to match our design. With help from teachers everyone added wheels to their taxi to make them move! Aren’t they amazing…
