Chestnut

This half term we are learning traditional rhymes through play, songs and Attention Autism. This week we have been enjoying Incy Wincy Spider and retelling the story through play. During Attention Autism Stage 3 we explored taking turns to pour blue rice down a drain pipe to ‘wash the spider out’…

This week in Chestnut Class we have been learning about Diwalli and the Festival of Light through Attention Autism, music, food, creating Diyas and expressive art. During Attention Autism Stage 1 we enjoyed looking at all the lights and coloured ribbons and during Stage 2 Miss Spear created a…

Chestnut Class have been learning all about colours and enjoying a story about about Pete the Cat and his white shoes. We have been exploring, sorting, matching and identifying colours, making fruit skewers, and printing patterns using colours from the story. We were so pleased to have Mr…

Chestnut class have been busy exploring colours this week. We’ve enjoyed listening and retelling parts of our class story -The Little Red Hen. On Wednesday Chestnut Class even helped The Little Red Hen to make some bread using key word instructions. We’ve been mixing, pouring and measuring using…

Chestnut class have had a fantastic morning making rice crispie cakes to raise money for Macmillan. We have been counting, pouring, mixing and using all our fabulous communication skills to engage,share joint attention and make choices of the wonderful cakes. Thank you for all your ;donations and…

Welcome back Chestnut Class! 
 

This week we have enjoyed getting to know lots of new names and faces that make up our fabulous new Class via Attention Autism. We are also very lucky to have another little girl joining us soon and we can’t wait to meet her! We have had so much fun making…

Group 1 have enjoyed a fantastic last week at Holiday Heroes. We had another visit on Tuesday from the Music Carousel ladies. We all had great fun playing our musical instruments to the music and especially hiding under the parachute at the end. In the afternoon we had a trip to the Space…

Well what another exciting week!! We have been dancing, singing, bouncing, sliding and so much more. We had a great visit to Space where we enjoyed the lights, the slides and the interactive activities. We then also had a visit from Carousel where we enjoyed some great music, singing and dancing…

Well what an exciting first week! We have had a visit from Music Carousel where we enjoyed singing, instruments and moving to the music. We also really enjoyed the bouncy castle, the slide was great fun!

Chestnut Class have been getting in the Summer spirit this week.

We have made some super summer crafts that we are going to take home!

We have all made a colourful sun catcher with tissue paper, paint and stickers. 

We then made a big yellow sun and chose different coloured rays to stick…

This week has been 'Sports Week' at Astley Park.

We have started our mornings off with some dancing to warm up our bodies, ready for our activities.

On Monday we had lots of fun in an egg and spoon race, we even had to move carefully around obstacles. 

We enjoyed practising our throwing,…

Today, Chestnut Class have celebrated Italy.

We all wore the colours red, green or white, and listened to some traditional Italian music.

For 'What's in the Box', Miss Beck made a big Italian flag out of all different sensory materials.

Chestnut class then all had a go at decorating our…