Welcome to the Robins Class!
Staff
Teacher: Amina Munsaf
TAs: Anne Tomlinson, Katie Campbell and Khloe Fox
Mid Day Leader: Carol Gordon
Newsletter
Hairy, Scary Beast
The Robins have loved lots of exciting learning opportunities throughout this half terms topic of ‘Hairy Scary Beast.’
We have been building our confidence in using technology whilst using various different switch toys, the plasma screen and the iPad. We have learnt about cause and effect and how we can repeatedly make something happen by our actions. We have loved taking turns on EyeGaze and using our eyes to control the screen in lots of fun games.
In our communication session we enjoyed listening to the story ‘’Monster Max” whilst exploring all the different elements of the story including the rubber snakes, cold water spray, and cheesy crisps. Our favorite part was the paper fans, which helped us to explore the cool air near the sea from our story.
In sensory food we used all our senses to explore different foods including smelling, touching, tasting and looking. We enjoyed exploring coloured spaghetti, chocolate angel delight and rosemary. But most of all we loved exploring the wet oats with lots of wonderful toppings such as honey, bananas and chocolate powder.
We developed our communication skills while joining in with different activities such as ‘What’s in the box’, ‘I’ve got something in my bucket’ and ‘sensory songs’. We especially enjoyed the nursery rhyme puppets, where we were able to choose our favorite nursey rhyme whilst exploring the matching puppets.
We thoroughly enjoyed our fun physical development sessions in different areas of the school, including the MILE room for our massage story and the studio for are Visual Skills Development sessions. Most of all we enjoyed going into the hall with our friends from different classes for parachute games.
We look forward to our new topic of ‘Food Glorious Food’ after the holidays!
Signalong
At Kingfisher we use Signalong as a part of a Total Communication Approach, we are constantly using core vocabulary with the children to support their language development and then through each of our topics we introduce new signs and language, which extends their vocabulary further. We also have two “Signs of the Week” which helps maintain and extend key knowledge and skills of everyday vocabulary.
Each half term we will be creating a short video showcasing and demonstrating signs relavent for the current term so that you can learn the signs and further this learning at home.
Click play to watch this half terms Signalong video!
Lunchtime
If your child has a school dinner, the school menus can be accessed by clicking here. For children who bring a packed lunch, please remember to provide healthy and balanced options. We are a Healthy School and will be focusing on healthy eating and how children can make healthy lifestyle choices.
How You Can Help at Home
The following activities are suggested as appropriate homework activities which you can enjoy with your child and reinforce the learning we are focussing on this half term –
- Listen to stories on YouTube such as ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’
- Play two way games and sing action rhymes, such as ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ or ‘Wheels on the Bus’ supporting your child to join in and participate, leave space to see if your child anticipates what comes next
- Take your child on a nature walk and allow them time to process the sounds in nature. Allow them to explore what they find on their nature walk
- Find a large bag and put child friendly items from your house into the bag, including toys. Take two random items out of the bag at a time and allow your child to make their choice on which item they prefer to explore. Can they choose by reaching out for the item? Are they making their choice by gazing at the item?
- Give your child different materials and textures to explore like something furry and something rough. Will they reach out to grab/feel it? Do they use both hands to explore? Do they enjoy the different textures?
- Hide under a blanket and then pull the blanket off in front of your child. Take turns with hiding under the blanket. How does your child respond to this? Do they show anticipation?
- Explore and investigate with messy materials – mud, sand and water play, etc. Encourage them to explore with their hands. Talk about how it feels, smells and sounds, etc.
- Watch the Signalong videos on our school website with your child:
