Blog Author: Mrs Whittle

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had lots of fun activities and events in Chestnut Class. These have included Holi, Mother’s Day & Easter celebrations. 

Holi- 

To celebrate Holi we all walked around the track while colourful powder paint was thrown on us. Some of our families even came…

This week in Chestnut Class, our theme has been Valentines. 

We’ve enjoyed a special valentines themed Sensology which included; 

Seeing- Valentines colours with different materials.

Hearing - Listening to the heartbeats with our ears that we made on the drums, choosing to tap…

This week in Chestnut Class, our theme has been Valentines. 

We’ve enjoyed a special valentines themed Sensology which included; 

Seeing- Valentines colours with different materials.

Hearing - Listening to the heartbeats with our ears that we made on the drums, choosing to tap…

We’ve loved our first week back with Miss Seddon; we’ve done lots of fun activities throughout the week. 

Monday- In food technology we made orange juice and in class we listened to our hungry caterpillar sensory story. 

Tuesday- We enjoyed lots of gross motor activities in P.E. 

In class…

We’ve had a super few weeks in Chestnut class, here is some of the things we’ve been up to; 

Our Sensory story has been The Hungry Caterpillar- We learnt all about the tiny little caterpillar who ate too much food and turned into a big caterpillar, our teachers then put us into a cocoon…

This half term we’ve been getting involved in lots of festive activities in Chestnut Class. 

In food technology we have made salt dough Christmas ornaments. We’ve also been making Christmas cards, decorating our sleigh and doing lots of other Christmas crafts in my creativity ready for our…

This term we started our visits to Astley Park. 

In groups we walked to Astley Park and through the woods. 

We explored our senses, listening to what we could hear and looking around to see what we could see. 

We could hear dogs barking, leaves crunching, water flowing and birds…

Chestnut class have had another busy week!

We started the week with Remembrance Day. We explored poppies and painted our own poppy pictures using potatoes. 

On Wednesday we made friendship bracelets! We threaded coloured pasta onto string to match a pattern. We've practiced our turn taking…

This week we have celebrated all things Halloween in Chestnut Class, we have had lots of spooky continuous provision and Halloween themed group sessions. 

Our group sessions this week have included; 

• Halloween Sensology- We explored our different senses with Halloween themed…

For the summer term our topic is “Under the Sea”. For the last 2 weeks we’ve been doing the story of the little mermaid. 

Our continuous provision has included; 

• Under the sea tough trays 
• Exploring sea creatures 
• Cleaning the whales and mark making in the foam
• Matching and…

We’ve been exploring all things Easter in  Maple this week with lots of Easter themed continuous provision. 
 

On Monday in the morning we did cookery and made Easter nest cakes, we all enjoyed eating them for our snack. 
In the afternoon we took part in an Easter themed attention autism. In…

For the last 2 weeks of the half term we’ve been learning all about the farm.
We’ve had lots of farm continuous provision including; 

• Farm tough trays
• Matching games
• Farm animal footprints
• Feeding the pig

As well as lots more exploring of different trays. 

We have also done…