We have had a wonderful end to the school year this week!
On Monday we visited The Beach Hut soft play which was fantastic! We were all so independent and listened well to our adults. We are so proud of the children and it was lovely to see them having such a lovely time.
We had our beach party on Wednesday which we really enjoyed. We played in the sand and the water and loved playing with the balloons and inflatables and showing off our dance moves!
We were very lucky to have a visit from the ice cream van on Thursday and we all enjoyed an ice cream to cool us down.
Today we said goodbye to our lunch time supervisor Ange! Angie has worked with us for a long time and helped us for many years and we wish her all the best in her retirement!
We hope that you have a fantastic summer and we can’t wait to welcome you all back on Wednesday 4th September!
We have had another fantastic week in Field Mice this week. We started the week with our cooking session where we made some ice lollies to enjoy. We have made so much progress with our pouring skills over the year and it has really shown during this session.
We have been starting our summer themed activities this week as we head towards the summer holiday, exploring under the sea and a beach theme. We made our own jelly fish, choosing the colours we wanted for the tentacles and it’s body.
On Wednesday we enjoyed our Summer Festival! We made our way to the field where we explored the African drummers, the circus skills, hook a duck, the sensory Gruffalo trail and some of us even had our faces painted! Can you spot the Gruffalo?
It was lovely to be able to share this experience with our families, enjoying a picnic on the grass all together to celebrate the end of a lovely year!
Next week is our last week before the summer holiday and we cannot believe how fast the year has gone! We have lots of lovely things planned in the last week including our trip to The Beach Hut on Monday and our class party on Wednesday. Don’t forget to wear your party clothes ready for some dancing!
We have had a very busy start to the half term in Field Mice Class so far!
We have celebrate Eid, making Eid Mubarak cards and mosque sun sun catchers.
We have also enjoyed the start of the Euro’s with lots of football themed activities. We have practiced our number recognition and understanding, counting out the correct number of balls, got creative when rolling balls in paint to make marks on the paper, practiced our gross motor and ball skills on the playground and in our PE sessions and developed our self help skills making football biscuits during cooking.
As we come towards the end of our Summer Term we are starting to come to the end of our African a Safari topic. We have been getting creative making our own African necklaces and designing a South African flag. We used our ALDs and symbols to help us with our colour recognition and placement for our flags which is fantastic.
Next week we will be finishing our topic before starting our summer and end of year celebrations. We will be exploring the text “Safari Stomp” where we will explore the actions of the different animals and continue to explore associated crafts.
We have had a lovely last week of term this week with lots of fun and engaging activities taking place throughout the week.
On Tuesday it was lovely to welcome parents to our Sports Showcase and all of the children loved showing off their skills and progress throughout the year. It was great to see so many faces joining in, smiling and laughing throughout the session. I’m sure we can all agree that the children are superstars and loved having you all there to join in with our session!
During our cooking session this week we made a very healthy fruit salad! We are getting more and more confident and accurate with our cutting skills now and we are engaging much more independently which is fantastic.
On Wednesday we celebrated Numeracy Day as a while school. We came dressed in our own clothes linked to number, shape and colour and explored a variety of activities throughout the day.
We hope you all have a lovely half term and look forward to welcoming you all back to school on Monday 3rd of June ready to embark on our last half term of this academic year. We will be continuing our work around our topic, An African Safari, and exploring lots of summer themed activities as we make our way towards the summer holidays in July.
Thank you from Team Field Mice for your continued support in providing the best for our wonderful Field Mice children.
We have had another busy week in Field Mice Class this week! We have explored lots of fruits as part of both our cooking and communication sessions this week, exploring some fruits that we might not have tasted before.
During our cooking session we made fruit kebabs. We cut up the fruits using our knives and then carefully threaded them onto our skewer to make colourful fruit kebabs. Some of the textures and tastes we weren’t too keen on however we all chose fruits that we felt comfortable touching and placed them onto the skewer.
As part of our activities linked to story time and Handa’s Surprise we worked hard to link symbols, sentences and explore story scenes linked to the story. We all showed great engagement and we are really starting to become familiar with this story.
During our focussed problem solving sessions we have been exploring 2D shape. We all listened to our 2D shape song before matching the shapes to the correct poster. We all waited our turn beautifully before searching in our shape feely bag. Some of us embarked on a Safari shape hunt whilst some of us explored the properties of 2D shapes.
We also took part in a fruit tasting activity this week. We used the symbols, our facial expressions, gestures and words to communicate which fruits we liked and which we didn’t. We touched almost all of the fruits and even smelled some of them instead of tasting. We are very proud of how engaged the children were in this activity.
As part of our handwriting and fine motor session on Friday we took part in a variety of mark making and fine motor strengthening activities. We have been working hard on our pencil control and movements this term and this is really showing in our sessions. Whilst some of us preferred to make marks in our booklets, others preferred to trace letters using our interactive screen and others chose to develop their fine motor skills through various threading and cutting activities.
Next week we will be continuing our work on Handa’s Surprise in the run up to our half term holiday. We will also be showcasing our wonderful progress during our sports showcase event on Tuesday 21st May at 1:45pm and it would be lovely to see as many of you there as possible.
On Wednesday we will also be celebrating Numeracy Day by joining in with all sorts of maths themed activities! Remember to come to school in your numbers, shapes or colours on Wednesday!
We have had another lovely week in Field Mice this week! We have been making the most of the beautiful weather we have had this week. We really enjoyed playing with the water outside, watching as we poured and squirted the water! We got very wet – including our adults – but we had so much fun. We were joined by some of our friends from Fireflies class which was lovely.
We have continued with our Safari topic this week, continuing with our We All Went on Safari book. We used black paint and our stripey rollers to make our own zebras and practiced counting the stripes we made.
Next week we will be focussing our activities around the story Handa’s Surprise. We will make our way through the story and explore the animals and fruits we see along the way.
This week we have continued to explore our Safari themed activities, exploring the animals we might find as well as exploring the feeling if the sand, an example of the terrain we might experience if we were to go on a real Safari.
We have also been exploring some signs of summer and enjoying the warmer weather we have experienced this week! To celebrate May Day we made some flowers and some bumblebees which will be displayed on our windows for summer.
As part of our cooking session this week we have loved making tortilla wrap pizzas! We looked at the ingredients and tasted some before using our spreading skills to spread the tomato purée onto the base. We then added cheese and our favourite toppings. We all showed fantastic engagement and thoroughly enjoyed the tasting part of the session!
Next week we will be continued our work on our Safari topic and keeping the same story “We All Went on Safari” as we are really enjoying this 🦓🦒🦏🐘🦁
We hope you have a fantastic bank holiday weekend and look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 7th May.
We have really enjoyed our story Let’s All Go On Safari where we have been exploring which animals we might find whilst on Safari. We met ostriches, leopards, monkeys, wildebeest, elephants, warthogs, zebras and more! On each page we saw different amounts of each animal from one all the way through to ten.
We have explored the animals and the Safari using our sensory trays and some of us have even been reading and matching sentences to pictures as well as filling in the gaps on the sentences from our story. We have all worked very hard as you can see!
As part of our cooking session this week we made our very own lion faces! We used pancakes for the face, orange segments for the mane, a strawberry for the nose and matchmakers for his whiskers. We looked carefully at the pictures and copied what we saw with some of our own little touches.
On Tuesday we celebrated St George’s day by creating our own England flags using red tissue paper, we were prompted to stay on the cross of the flag and we tried our best to do this 🏴
Our new PE focus is Games and we have been exploring different resources that we can throw and catch. Some of us have eve
We have been completing lots of Safari themed crafting activities in order to create our African Adventures display in class. We have used different modes in order to create our own animals for the display. Watch this space to see the finished display!
If you would like to share this story at home please see the video below – we have loved counting along with the animals in the story and will continue to explore this story next week.
Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely break and got up to lots of lovely things.
This week we have been celebrating Eid in class and as a school. We have explored the story “A Very Busy Eid” and explored different sensory experiences linked to the celebration.
As part of our Attention Autism sessions we have been working on building our attention and this week we tried our had at Stage 3 which consisted of us having our own turn at an engaging activity as well as waiting for our peers to finish their turn! We did brilliantly with this and each of us used a spoon to sprinkle powder paint onto the stencil before revealing the pattern underneath.
During our cooking session this week we made some star biscuits to support our Eid celebrations. We weighed, mixed, rolled and cut out our biscuits using the symbols to support us. They also passed the taste test!
During our PE session this week we pulled our Gymnastics sessions to a close as we prepare to move on to Games for the rest of the term. We have all made such progress with our physical development skills throughout the year, particularly when taking part in key aspects of the session, well done Field Mice!
Next week we will be starting our new topic “An African Safari” where we will learn about the different animals that we might see whilst on safari 🦁 🐘 🦏 🦒
What a busy week we have had! We enjoyed having our families in to take part in our craft session on Tuesday. It was lovely to share our activities with you and work together.
During our cooking session this week we made some chocolate nests for our mini eggs. We broke up the shredded wheat and added melted chocolate before mixing it all together and making nests. We all worked well as a team to mix it together.
We have been making lots of Easter crafts throughout the week including our 3D bunnies which we carefully painted and added eyes and a button nose.
During our music session with Bev on Thursday we used instruments and music to engage with music linked to the festival of colour, Holi. We all engaged brilliantly and it was lovely to see so many lovely interactions with both staff and instruments.
On Friday we celebrated the Holi as a class using our powder paints and patterned stencils. We filled plastic eggs and threw them at the floor, observing the powder floating into the air.
We hope you have a fantastic Easter break and look forward to welcoming you all back to school on Monday 8th April where we will start by celebrating Eid with our peers before starting our new topic “An African Adventure”.
