Eggsellent Easter Fun in Pines…

30th March 2023L Calder

We had great fun this week reading more Supertato books this week so decided to create our Easter eggs for the competition based on the characters from the stories. Everyone chose their own character using symbols and created their egg- aren’t they great!

For our Easter cards we practised printing with sponges to create different effects.

In phonics we had to put together the broken Easter eggs by reading the word and matching it to the picture- we did an excellent job!

To end our money topic in maths this week we had a trip to the shop to buy a treat. All children were super stars! They could identify some coins and were able to wait in the queue to be served and hand the money over to the shop keeper. We enjoyed our treat back at school as a social snack together.

Happy Easter!

 

World Maths Day in Pines

26th March 2023L Calder

We started the day for World Maths Day by going to the sensory room and playing maths games on the interactive activity mat, we threw the musical dice and counted the numbers and enjoyed looking through sensory shapes.

In English we counted characters from the Supertato stories and at  snack time we enjoyed paying for our snack at the ‘Pines Shop’. Everyone did an excellent job selecting the correct coin and practising handing over money to the ‘shop keeper’.

In our art lesson we created a heart picture copying the style of artist Piet Mondrian using lines to make squares and rectangles to colour in using primary colours.

We all really enjoyed using maths in all of our lessons for World Maths Day!

 

Science Week and Red Nose Day in Pines…

20th March 2023L Calder

This week in Pines we celebrated British Science Week, the theme was ‘connections’, we connected photographs of animals by matching them together and then connected with nature by making some bird feeders.

For Red Nose Day we enjoyed reading a Mr Men story and creating our own red noses after we enjoyed trying on this years red noise first!

 

 

 

This Week in Pines…

13th March 2023L Calder

This week in Pines we have been learning about money- we are starting to recognise coins and sort them. We have practised our fine motor skills using hamma beads to create different pictures and enjoyed making some stained glass windows in RE which we hung on our tree in class.

On Friday we enjoyed some fun in the snow!

World Book Day in Pines…

8th March 2023L Calder

For World Book day we started the day by listening to and reading the story ‘A Teddy bear’s Picnic’. We all brought in our favourite teddies to show the class and have with us while we read stories throughout the day. We created our own book marks and book pictures using our cutting and sticking skills. We enjoyed some paired reading with the children in Blossoms class and each chose a book to take home form the book swap.

To end the day we all had our own teddy bear’s picnic!

 

Valentine’s Day and Pancake Day in Pines…

16th February 2023L Calder

This week we have really enjoyed exploring our Valentine’s tuff tray and made a card for our Valentine. In literacy we looked at what object represents each letter of our name and then ordered the letters in our name.

As Shrove Tuesday is in the half term holidays we have been learning about it this week. We learnt about the ingredients needed to make pancakes and made a shopping list with our choice of topping. We also made pancakes and really enjoyed flipping them before having a pancake race in PE!

Children’s Mental Health Week in Pines…

10th February 2023L Calder

This week in Pines for children’s mental health week we were learning about how we all connect. We started the week off by connecting together in a circle and passing a hula hoop around each other- we had to stay connected for the hoop to go around! We listened to the story of the invisible string in literacy and created our own character which all connect on our display. We also looked at how we are all connect by the things we like and by having the same hair/ eye colour.

We also enjoyed our exciting opportunity to watch the CBSO relaxed concert this week listening to the story of around the world in 80 days through an orchestra then completed some mindfulness colouring.

Internet Safety Week in Pines…

3rd February 2023L Calder

This week has been Internet Safety week, we read the story of Hanni and the magic window and created our own magic window. Finlay created an excellent magic window with dinosaurs inside! We also used our problem solving skills to put an e-safety jigsaw together and looked at the different types of technology in each jigsaw piece.

We also used technology to look at different types of wheels for our DT lesson, we were all excellent at pointing to the wheels on the photographs and enjoyed using the gears afterwards to investigate how the wheels move.

Burns Night Activities in Pines

26th January 2023L Calder

This week in Pines we have been learning about Burns Night, we enjoyed listening to some bagpipes and playing a game of Burns Night Bingo. We also designed our own tartan and made a tartan kilt using our weaving skills to develop our fine motor. In cookery we made delicious Scottish shortbread and were great at taking turns to weigh, mix and roll!

In science we have continued to learn about seasonal changes and created some autumn trees using finger painting to create the red, yellow and orange leaves. In DT this week we have been using mobilo to create vechiles, aren’t they great!

 

Chinese New Year in Pines

22nd January 2023L Calder

This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We all listened well to the story and worked as a class to order the animals in the order they won the race. We all enjoyed tasting Chinese food and were great at using our communication skills to say if we ‘liked’ or ‘disliked’ the foods. We have also enjoyed watching dragon dances and had great fun using chopsticks!

In maths we have been learning about ‘heavy’ and ‘light’, we used symbols to label the balance scales. In DT we have enjoyed investigating wheels and found that lots of the toys we play with every day have wheels on them!

Lots of great investigation work in Pines this week!