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Room 12 found out all about Diwali in November. We watched a powerpoint that told us all about it and then made Mehndi patterns. We used a variety of stampers to create our patterns on an arm template for our ASDAN unit about celebrations in different communities.
Howes Hoose pupils are continuing to work hard. Over the last few weeks, we have been busy packing food parcels for distribution. Also, focus has been on household tasks such as bed making and washing clothes.
Bike maintenance has begun and all the pupils are enjoying it and learning lots!
Room 16 had a brilliant time celebrating Dr Who Day on 21st November. We had a fun but messy time making our own tardis and taking turns to hide inside it. It looks like it may have crashed landed on far off planets a few times but it is still standing! We made scary monster masks too and listened to some of the different Doctor Who theme tunes from over the years.
Room 15 has been incorporating lots of festive activities recently (we definitely broke the no Christmas stuff before 1st December rule!).
We have spent a lot of time working on our expressive arts Christmas video, applying our communication, musical and dramatic skills (and having lots of fun). Our class elf helped us to talk about “snow”! We’ve finished the video this week and have really enjoyed watching it (on repeat, by popular demand!) and can’t wait to share it with you later this month.
This week we explored the ASDAN to decide how we want to decorate a room by creating our own Christmas tree – we each chose which decorations we wanted to add and glued them onto the tree, and it now adorns our classroom wall making the room feel a bit more festive! Our story this week has been Stick Man, and we made our own Stick Man from playground resources as part of our outdoor education sessions.
Our Attention Autism sessions this week have also had a Christmas theme – the dancing Christmas tree has been a firm favourite, and it has been fabulous to see the engagement and spontaneous communication this has motivated our learners to share – “more”! Our stage 4 activity today is making our Christmas cards.
Alongside lots of fun we equip our learners to better understand events around them and be able to communicate about them. We have also continued to use the “special activity” symbol to continue to build our resilience to changes in routine, which can be many at this time of year.
As our next website post will be after the holidays, the team in Room 15 want to pass on our best wishes for a happy, safe and restful break to all – Merry Christmas!
November has been a busy month in Howes Road Nursery. We have enjoyed lots of Autumn activities in nursery. On crisp Autumn walks around our local area we collected leaves and twigs to explore the different textures and colours. We used these to make lovely artwork and had fun putting them on the parachute and watching them being thrown up into the air.
We made yummy vegetable soup for snack with Autumn vegetables. We liked chopping up the vegetables best.
For Bonfire Night we made lovely artwork with bright coloured paint and dishwashing sponges and brushes. It was messy and good fun.
We celebrated St Andrew’s day by making beautiful tartan paintings, with a taste of Haggis, Neeps and Tatties for snack and finished off the day with Ceilidh Dancing which everyone joined in with.
This week in room 19 we have been learning about St Andrew and some Scottish traditions. We’ve talked about some Scottish words, Nessie and tartans. Then we watched some videos of living statues pranking people.
Here are the links to the living statue videos we watched:
Some pupils dressed up as living statues and played pranks on the class team. Boo! Do try this at home! Cameras at the ready!
We were delighted to see one of our families recognised at the Scottish Learning Disability Awards 2020, winning the Family Carer and their Relative category. On their YouTube channel, Shahzad shares informative videos that are appreciated by people around the world, highlighting ways to support people with complex additional needs through caring for his brother.
Room 18 have been learning to work with cut willow branches.
1. Stripping the branches
The thinnest branches are the easiest to work with so we had to pull them off the bigger branches!
2. Making wreaths
We used the branches to make circles and then start wrapping other branches around to make Christmas decorations. It was very fiddly and takes a bit of getting used to.
3. Taking Photos
For our SQA and ASDA units, we are learning to take photos on the ipads. We thought this was a good time to practice our skills, we all took photos of each other working.
4. TaDa! The finished product
This was a fiddly task and took some concentration. We are very proud of the small wreaths we have made. They will look fab when we decorate our classroom next week!
As part of our ASDAN and SQA work, Room 17 have been exploring a variety of musical instruments. We have been deciding which instruments we like best and which ones we aren’t so keen on! We have enjoyed playing the different instruments to some of our favourite songs. We have now chosen our favourite instrument and will be practising it for something special coming up later in the term!
