Rainbow Unit: Gallery
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:11am
This week has been a special week- we’ve moved into our new classroom!
The girls have loved it and settled in so well. They have both been so vocal in their new classroom, which has been so lovely to hear! Adults have been taking part in intensive interactions with the children and have observed the children a lot. It has been really nice to see how much Rosie and Tilly are acknowledging each other and have been holding hands frequently and running around the room together! They have been giggling together too!
We have introduced some new toys into the classroom, including new gym apparatus for vestibular movements, lots of sensory toys, the dark den has been re-introduced and new cause and effect toys.
We have been encouraging the girls to sit down for both snack and lunch at a table on a chair, this has worked well so far. During snack time, we have been showing the children the different options that they have and they have been choosing what they want to eat first. This has been a success and made snack times calmer, and the core board has consistently been used at these times too.
Another new experience- Rosie and Tilly went on the front big playground with the rest of the children in KS1, both girls coped very well and were happily running alongside the other children!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:10am
This week we have continued to work with the core board with the children. At snack times, this is becoming very successful when requesting more. We have tried to use the core board in ways with do not involve snack, this is a working progress.
Adults have sang various nursery rhymes with props to the children, and stories that involve puppets. We feel the children’s favourite nursery rhyme this week has been “5 little monkeys”.
As well as the core board we have been working on some other speech and language targets, we have been asking the children to make a choice. We are assessing whether the children are able to make a choice between something they like and something they dislike. Again, we have introduced this with food, and this has been successful so far. After half term, we will continue this using different objects.
We have had a lot of fun this week with vestibular movements from adults e.g. bouncing on knees, and alerting activities like tickling! We have heard lots of giggles from the children!
As it is Shove Tuesday next week, we have tasted some pancakes this week, surprisingly these were not a hit!
The children have loved looking through their social stories, these are books we make using all of the photos that you send to us. Could you please send some more photos over half term so we can add some more to their books.
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:08am
This week has been another very busy week for the children. We have enjoyed using the musical instruments and all of the children have shown an interest in the different sounds that they have been able to make. We have continued to sing ‘5 speckled frogs’ and ‘5 little ducks’ each day and some of the children are showing a progression with their attention as they are looking for longer periods of time at the singer. The children have loved being outside this week in our outdoor area and have continued to explore their setting. We have been putting our wellies on to jump in puddles and squelch in the mud. One of our main focuses this week has been continuing to use the core boards when requesting more snack. Some children are consistently doing this independently now and are showing an awareness of the ‘stop/finished’ symbol which we use at the end of snack time. The children are doing really well in accepting that snack is finished when we point to this.
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:08am
What a lovely week we have had this week. The children have enjoyed using the new slide that we have in our sensory room. They have been exploring different ways to use it, they have been sliding down it, climbing up it, sliding down on the tummies and of course, balancing things in it. During our morning session, we have started using hand puppets and singing some counting songs such as 5 little ducks and 5 speckled frogs. Some of the children have taken an interest in this activity, they have come over and at times even touched the glove. We have continued to explore looking at ourselves using various mirrors and the children are noticing different parts of their bodies, such as their eyes and their feet. During our afternoon session we explored our senses using sticky, edible mud. All of the children were curious by this and each of them all came over to look it and even had a little touch. This week, we have seen amazing progress during snack time as some of the children are now using the core board to request more snack. This is something that we are incredibly proud of the children for doing as it is new way that they are communicating their needs to us.
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:06am
This week has been an enjoyable week with the snow and ice (not so fun for the grown-ups!)
All of the children have enjoyed exploring the snow. We even made a few snowballs. We have been working on our independence skills by finding our wellies/coats for when it is time to go outside. This week the children have continued to show an awareness of our good morning and good afternoon song, there have been some occasions where they have come over to use whilst we have been singing which is wonderful progress. We have introduced some gym equipment into the sensory room and the children have been exploring this safely and even balancing other objects on top of it. As part of our understanding the world, we have offered the children the opportunity to explore their senses using safe sand and a sensory farmyard. We have noticed that some of the children have enjoyed tasting the safe sand, this is really easy to make... it's just crushed up Rice Krispies .
