Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

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 year for World Religion Week, Chestnut Class enjoyed exploring light linked to the Sikh celebration of Diwali. We made salt dough Diya lamps during our attention autism sessions and enjoyed turning the lights off and signing about our lamps on Friday afternoon to mark the end of the week.…

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 morning, Chestnut Class had a visit from some very special guests… Santa and his elves!  

We were so excited to see them! Santa gave everyone a present, and we spent the morning playing with them and eating our chocolates.  

Thank you, Santa! 
Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas! 
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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…

Chestnut class have had lots of fun celebrating Bonfire night.

We explored the fire senses in a bonfire night themed sensology.

See - watched a firework video and pointed to the colours on a core board

Hear - listened to firework noises 

Smell - popped party poppers and smelt the…

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…

Chestnut class have enjoyed exploring our “this is me” topic. We’ve played with our favourite toys, looked at our reflections, and explored facial expressions.

We’re well established with our morning group routine now. First, we sing the hello song. Then, we check “what day is it today”.…