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2025 - 2026
This week we have been exploring 'birthday memories'. We have enjoyed melting ice balloons, made cakes using shaving foam and wooden blocks and made our own birthday cakes using flour, glitter and bun cases!
This week we have enjoyed making our own animal prints linked to our topic 'Zoo memories'. We used sponges and paint brushes to make giraffe prints and tiger prints!
We have had a brilliant day celebrating Children in Need with lots of sensory activities. We enjoyed making our own Pudsey faces using cereal and spots, sponge painted a Pudsey paper plate and bingo dabbed our own Pudsey headband!
We have been exploring ways we can look after ourselves and others through the use of role play with babies and we have enjoyed feeding and washing the babies to identify how we care for them!
We have had an excellent day commemorating 'Remembrance Day' through exploring different sensory activities and making our own poppies using sponges, potatoes and collaging paper plates!
Happy 7th birthday to this superstar!
This week we have enjoyed exploring Autumn themed activities in our Topic lessons. We enjoyed scooping out pumpkins to explore the seeds and washing the pumpkins in soapy water and we made our own prints using different leaves!
In our Topic lessons we have enjoyed making our own flower prints using tubes to make a Squirrels garden painting!
In Maths our focus for measurement has been 'length and height'. We have enjoyed exploring different practical activities to develop our understanding of 'big' or 'small' and 'long' or short' through comparing items side by side!
In our RE lessons we have explored the religion of 'Hinduism' and have enjoyed making our own temples using sensory materials and paints. We also made our own Diwali tea light holders using clay and gems
In Topic we have enjoyed making our own planter markers using wooden spoons to use in the horticulture area! We added outfits and facial features to each of the spoons to make our own faces!
Today we enjoyed celebrating Jeans for Genes in class. We explored a blue themed sensory tray, collaged our own pair of jeans as a whole class and explored our own facial features using mirrors and compared these to identify that everyone is different!
This week we have enjoyed making our own nature collages using different items found outside around the school grounds!
In English this week we have enjoyed exploring sensory trays linked to the story and our favourite trays were 'the school bell' and 'glasses'.
We have had an excellent first week back in Squirrels. As part of our Topic lessons we have enjoyed going around school to locate different classrooms using a map!
