The Owls

Communication and Interaction Inclusion Centre

Spring Term 2024

Growing plants!

The children have been learning about plant growth and they decided to plants some bulbs to see how far theirs might grow.

They carefully observed the shoots over a few weeks.

They then watched their bulbs begin to grow and have now taken them home to continuing growing over the holidays.

Doug Hyde

The children have been looking at the artwork of Doug Hyde and discussing what they can see, and which their favourite is.

They talked about was similar about each picture and what was different.

They chose their favourite and tried to recreate it in their own style.

Here is some of his artwork

Going on a bear hunt!

The children listened to the Michael Rosen story, “We’re going on a bear hunt.

They then learnt how to act out the story and then retold the story using sensory items to represent each part.

They really enjoyed playing with the mud and feeling ice for the cold snow.

Spring & Easter

Now spring is in the air, the children have been searching for signs of spring.

They have thought about the changes and the new life they can see.

They went for a spring hunt walk and went into Fernhurst garden to see the spring flowers.

Have a wonderful safe Easter holiday.

We look forward to the new term and the warm summer coming soon!

Autumn Term 2024

Handa’s surprise

The Owls’ have been very busy again this term.

We started the term with learning about our families, listening to sounds in the ‘Peace at last’ story and then looking at Autumn & Harvest through our ‘Little Red Hen’ story.

Our favorite by far was the Handa’s surprise story looking different fruits and the repetitive text.

Kandinsky - Art week

We also looked at the artist Kandinsky and his style of using concentric circles for art.

We used his style to create some Autumn trees with concentric circles.

My Happy Mind

Next, we looked at the moon landing and space creating some great rockets.

We also looked at ‘Elmer and the big bird’ for anti-bullying week, looking at building good friendships and how we can do this.

Alongside this we started our ‘My Happy Minds’ work to learn about our brain and how it works to make us feel things and how we can help control it.

Each Peach Pear Plum

We looked at Nursery Rhyme & story characters through ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ and used the ‘talk for writing’ method to map out the story.

Kippers’ Birthday

We then looked at celebrating Kippers’ Birthday by making a birthday cake for him.

We talked about how we all celebrate differently, and looked at what birthdays mean.

Christmas

This is always another busy time with lots of fun activities. We made party capes of our own designs.