🗣️ Before the end of the year we wanted to share some of the communication strategies that the boys use in Badgers. Everyone has made so much progress with their communication skills this year and the Badger team are super proud of them!
📸 A lot of the boys use the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECs), this requires them to swop a picture of an item with an adult for the real item. Some pupils exchange photos and others use symbols. We also use Aided Language Displays (ALDs) in class, these are used for specific activities like art and craft. The boys use these by pointing to the symbols that represent the items they would like. We also have a pupil who enjoys spelling out words to communicate his wants and needs.
What a clever lot! 🥳
⭐️This week we have enjoyed creating photo keepsake pages to remember our time in Badger class. We will send these home to you soon! We have also continued with our Attention Autism sessions, we enjoyed joining in with paint splat and confetti activities!
🌈 It is always such a treat to see the boys with their parents! Thank you so much if you were able to join us on Monday. The boys had a lovely time exploring equipment in the new gym. Some of the boys made sandcastles and others had the opportunity to show their parents our wonderful sensory room and movement room. 🤸♂️
This week we continued with our farm topic! 🦆🐄🐖 Our sensory tough tray contained ducks in a pond of blue rice! We added to our farm display by painting colourful trees using scrunched up bubble wrap to create the leaves and flowers. Our art topic this half term has been painting so we are trying lots of different techniques.
Hope you have all had a fun weekend with your boys!☀️
If the boys come home exhausted on a Friday afternoon then this is why! What a warm and busy week!
🛁 We did lots more work on our topic book, Mrs Wishy Washy’s farm. We enjoyed our farm role play, particularly opening and closing all of the doors on the farm! We explored lots of dry textures in our sensory tough spot, we enjoyed taste testing all of the cereal! Some pupils went on to sort different animals into groups, whilst others found the set of animals with “more”. We also built our own sentences from the story using colourful semantics. 🌈
☔️ During our Attention Autism sessions this week we did an activity called “rain on you”. All of the badger boys were able to have a turn to sit under the umbrella and watch the rain fall above them. Attention Autusm is a brilliant activity to support engagement and turn taking, we all look forward to this session everyday! 🤩
☀️ Finally we have to share our wonderful fun in the sun! What a hot week! The boys have had loads of fun playing outside with the splash pools and water guns. We saw some beautiful turn taking as the boys were waiting for their turn to be sprayed with the water gun! We also discovered this week that our soft play has air conditioning! So when the heat got a little too much we went for a hide out and a sneaky play! 🥵
Hope all of our Badger families have had a wonderful weekend together! ☺️
🐖🐄🦆 It has been wonderful to welcome the boys back into school this week. We have started working on a new book, it’s called “Mrs Wishy Washy’s Farm”. The boys have really enjoyed washing the farm animals just like Mrs Wishy Washy does. We have also enjoyed animal matching, sight reading key words from the story and painting ducks, pigs and cows for our farm display. 🛁🫧
🤸♂️ Everyday at Oakwood our boys have access to a sensory circuit in the gym. This is a circuit of activities that supports our pupils to regulate their bodies ahead of a day of learning. Each sensory circuit contains activities that fit into three stages; Stage 1 is Energy Lifting, stage 2 is Organising and stage 3 is Calming. Badgers think that the sensory circuit is lots of fun! 🤸♂️
Badgers have had a brilliant week at school. We can’t believe it is now time for another week at home! We are excited to welcome the boys back on Monday 2nd June for our final half term of the academic year!
🪣 We always love to watch and join in with our Attention Autism sessions. This week our favourite activity was the lemonade explosion! These sessions support the boys to develop their listening and attention skills; they are also a great opportunity to introduce new vocabulary. 🍾
🦙🦚🚜 The highlight of this week was our class trip to Burntwood Alpaca & Animal Farm! This trip was planned by Harriet and the boys were so happy to spend the day with her again. As you can see from the photos everyone had a wonderful visit. Badger’s loved visiting the animals, exploring in the sandpit and bouncing on the giant bouncy pillow! Travelling somewhere new can be really challenging and the boys took it all in their stride. All adults in Badger class are beyond proud of the boys for their engagement in this special trip. Well done Badgers! 🐐🦎🐒
Badgers have enjoyed another busy week at school; we have had lots of fun together and engaged in some excellent learning!
🍩 We have continued to enjoy our topic story, “Norman the slug with the silly shell”. This week we used our art lesson to create a silly shell sculpture for Norman. We mixed flour, salt and water to create a salt dough. Then we rolled it into long sausages and twisted it to make a shell. We used sequins to add some sparkle! ✨
🪣 The Badger boys have engaged beautifully with our Attention Autism sessions this week. One of our favourite moments was turn taking on the wobble board; the boys were all so willing to have a go! As the boys sat on the board we wobbled them and sang “jelly on a plate, jelly on a plate, wibble wobble wibble wobble, jelly on a plate!” 🍮
It has been wonderful to have the boys back at school now for two weeks. There has been a change of teacher in Badger class and the boys have done a brilliant job of adjusting to having new faces in the classroom. Here are photos of our whole class team; the rest of the team remains the same as the spring term. I have been blown away by the wonderful relationships that I have seen between the staff team and the Badger boys over the last two weeks.
🍩 Our topic book for this half term is “Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell”. We have enjoyed sharing the story together over the last two weeks. The boys have engaged beautifully with exploring resources from the story and some have gone on to complete word matching, sight reading and word building activities. Of course our favourite part was exploring the slime! 🦠
☀️ It has been wonderful to get the know the pupils in Badgers. We have enjoyed playing in the sunshine, modelling with play dough, playing with new toys, making milkshakes, decorating CD snails and much more.
Happy Friday Badgers! It’s been a lovely week this week with lots of fun activities. Including our shapes🔴, having our families in🫶🏼, Easter activities🐣, making Easter cards and Our end of term party🕺🪩
Shapes🔴
This week we’ve been working super hard on our shapes topic. Some of us have been working on identifying our shapes like squares, circles, rectangles and triangles. Some of us have also been sorting some Easter eggs that have different shapes in them, this activity was fun for al of us🐣
Badger families🫶🏼
This Wednesday we had a special visit from our families. We did lots of Easter activities including making chocolate nests 🪺, colourful tuff tray🌈, sensory play dough, making our own Easter bunnies 🐰 and a mini Easter eggs hunt🐣. It was lovely see see our families and show them everything we’ve been up to recently. Thanks you to everyone that came🫶🏼.
Easter activities + Easter Cards🐣
This week we’ve been up to lots of Easter activities. Playing with sand and finding Easter eggs filled with sensory items that we all love. This was lots of fun for all of us as the build up for Easter where we can all enjoy some yummy chocolate 🍫😋. We also enjoyed playing in the sensory tuff trays filled with sensory foods, tissue paper and glitter which as we all now is a badger favourite.
We have lots of fun creating our Easter cards for our families. We used our Peter pointer finger to make some cute little eggs in the baskets for our cards. Even though some of us didn’t like the colourful paint on our finger we all did so well creating these cards for us and our families. Well done boys!😆
Our end of term party🕺🪩
As it’s the end of term we threw a little party to celebrate how well we’ve all done these past weeks and a very well deserved rewards with our friends and badger team🎉🥳
Have a lovely Easter boys!!!!! We are all so unbelievably proud of all of you, have an amazing break with lots of rest. We will see you the Monday we come back. Enjoy😆
Hey Badger families!!! We’ve had such a lovely week in badgers. We’ve been up to lots of different things like Bucket 🪣, Cooking🍓, Easter Activities🐣,Communication and language🗣️, Playing with friends🫶🏼and A Bubble Dance Party🫧.
Bucket 🪣
This week we have all been doing so amazing in our bucket sessions. We’ve all had the opportunity to participate in bucket whether it be sitting underneath the umbrella and watching the water fall on our heads💦 or going on a little Easter egg hunt of our own, using the grabber to find the eggs and opening some of our favourite sensory items like confetti, glitter, pasta and sprinkles😆 We all had lot of fun taking part in something different and exciting, Well Done Boys👏🏼
Cooking- Making Jam Sandwiches🍓
For the last few weeks we have been working on our spreading skills, this week we made some delicious jam sandwiches which is a class favourite. We’ve been using ALD’s to communicate with our adults what we would like to use whether it is Butter or Jam. We all did so well with this activity yet again and we are all so proud of all of you and how far you have all come😁🍓Keep up the hard work boys👏🏼
Easter Activities🐣🪺
As you guys saw in bucket we had our own little Easter egg hunt with Harriet in bucket, so in our Easter activity we had the opportunity to mimic our sensory egg hunt ourselves and even enjoy some glittery flour with some fun patterns to help our pen grasp but really it was fun for us to make some Easter pattens🐣😆
Communication and Language🗣️
Through t the year we’ve been working super hard in our communication and language through ALD’s. We use some our favourite items like the posting piggy, shaving cream, yummy chocolate sauce and bubbles of course. Working with some of our favourite items motivates us to communicate with our familiar adults. Some of us have been using ALD’s and some of us have been able to take the step further and have been working on building our own sentence. Well done boys🗣️👏🏼
Playing with Friends🫶🏼
Playing along side our friends is very important to us as it helps up build our interaction with people. We’ve been playing with the building blockers, the sand, the play dough and the plastic food. From September we’ve all become very good friends and are able to play with or along side the people around us🫶🏼😆
Bubble Disco Dance🕺🪩
As the sun has come out this week we had an end of week treat with our bubble disco dances. We listened to song of our favourite action songs and watched some of the lovely bubbles flout all around us🫧🕺.
Have an amazing weekend badger families and have lots of fun in the sunshine☀️. See you next week.
Hope you’ve all had a lovely week! The boys have been up to lots of fun and exciting activities this week.
Bucket🪣
This week in bucket we have all be engaging to well. We all have had the opportunity to participate in bucket during stage 3. This week we did our normal bucket watching the flashy and noises toys and then watching Harriet complete stage 2 and then we’ve had the opportunity to spray green or blue paint to make a pretty pattern. Some of us were able to do this independently but some of us needed the extra support. Well done boys🎉
Fruit Tasting🍓🍐🫐🍊
Relating to our topic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we’ve been trying all the fruit that the greedy caterpillar ate through the week. We all really enjoyed trying some f the new and different fruit we haven’t explored before. We tried Apples🍎, Strawberries🍓, blueberries🫐, Oranges 🍊 and Pears🍐. We are all proud that you boys were able to try something new and different😆
Here is our story. The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛🦋
Cooking- Yummy Pizza🍕
This week in badgers we all have had ago at making pizza. As the same as every week we’ve been working on our spreading skills, from the start of the year we are all so proud of how far you all have come with your spreading skills. In the afternoon we all got to try the yummy pizza’s, even though some of us didn’t like it, some of us really enjoyed the delicious pizza. Again we are all so incredibly proud of all of you😆
Eid🌈
According to the USC Dornsife, Eid al-Fitr is celebrated with special morning prayers, as well as delicious foods and gifts for one’s family or those in need. It’s also consider a time for forgiveness, where Muslims are encouraged to forgive or seek forgiveness. So in badgers we have made sun catches to go on our windows to celebrate Eid and represent and learn about different cultures🕌🫶🏼
Have an amazing weekend and get lots of rest!!! The Bagdre Team😁🦡
