Fox Class Blog Spring 2

Wow! Where has the time gone? We have had a busy Spring term, where we continued our Life Skills focus of ‘Employability’, practicing and consolidating a range of skills which will help us as we grow up, including recognising people who can help us in the community and being confident communicators in a range of situations. We also enjoyed Careers Day, dressing up in different work uniforms and exploring job roles.  

As part of our Life Skills topic, we have begun to grow some different plants, hoping to sell them as part of an enterprise project, so we are watering them and caring for them, patiently waiting for them to bloom, so they will be ready to sell.  

In English, our book ‘The Gigantic Turnip’ has been lots of fun! We have enjoyed exploring sensory materials from the story and using our muscles pretending to pull out large vegetables, as well as mapping out the story and building sentences using colourful semantics. We are ending our topic by creating our own versions of the story, choosing characters and vegetables of our own.  World Book Bay was great, we had lots of book related fun, sharing stories with different classes and each other.  

In Maths, we have explored patterns, we used colours, sounds and shapes and looked for patterns in the environment. We have also continued to build on counting skills, including using money and different objects in a range of situations.  

We have continued to go out into the community each week, focusing on greeting people in shops, recognising people who work there and looking at the jobs they do in store. When we visited Pets at Home, we interviewed the members of staff, asking them what their favourite part of the job was. Unsurprisingly, it was looking after the animals! Some of us even got to watch the assistant feed and look after the animals.  We also interviewed the staff in Morrisons and found that the people we spoke to all had different favourite jobs to do, including stacking the shelves and helping customers. 

Our trips to the library have continued to be very exciting, we are more confident with the routines, recognising the purpose of the trip, walking straight to the books and beginning to search for our favourites. We continue to greet the librarian each week, either verbally or using signs or our talker and enjoy choosing books to share with the class. We continue to be responsible when using our library card, putting in the pin code and scanning each book carefully. When scanning our books back in to return them, we carefully look to check that they have scanned and then put them back on the shelf.  

Have a lovely Easter break and we will look forward to more fun next term with our new Life skills focus of Hobbies and Interests!