Blog Author: Nicola Littler

In The Hangout, we love our daily Attention Autism sessions. These sessions aim to develop natural and spontaneous communication skills through the use of visually based and highly motivating activities. 
 

This half term we have been focusing on developing our keyboard and mouse skills.

In The Hangout we take part in daily dough disco sessions. The children love doing this to the song Happy, it develops and strengthens the muscles in our fingers. 

This week we have had our first sensory senses and tasting session. We explored the smells, texture and taste of lemons, onion ring crisps and Turkish delight.  We also enjoyed smelling pineapple and apple scents on cotton wool. 
 

This week we explored onions, grapefruit and steak…

It’s been great to be back in The Hangout this week! We have loved talking about and looking at what everyone got for Christmas. We also did some mark making to go with our photos. Great work!

Children in The Hangout have been busy little elves making items to sell at our Christmas Fayre. We have snowman poop, reindeer poop and magic elf beans. We also have some yummy rice Krispie Christmas pudding and lovely key rings for sale. We can’t wait to see you all. 

This week, children in The Hangout have taken part in Christmas performances including singing at the concourse and Aaron Crest care home, as well as acting on the KS1 Christmas play. We are so proud of you. 

Children in The Hangout have enjoyed visiting The Studio over the past couple of weeks for their DT lessons. This week, they loved making a switch and testing it in a circuit. They were really excited when the bulb lit up. 
 

This week in The Hangout, we have been reading Whatever Next by Jill Murphy.  We enjoyed a visit from Baby Bear, we were very excited and got to ask him questions about his adventure to the moon. 

This week we have made pumpkin soup! Lots of sensory sensations during this activity from pulling out the pulp and seeds, smelling the pumpkin and onion to the smell from the cooking. We enjoyed chopping the pumpkin and onions and of course the wait to tasting it! Chefs in the making, great…

This week, children in The Hangout have been to the shop with their own shopping lists to buy ingredients to make bread.  We carefully read the recipe and baked our very own bread rolls. They were delicious! 
 

This week, we have been reading the story The Little Red Hen. We have been writing speech and thought bubbles for the characters, acting out the story with stick puppets and finding out about bread and the journey to making bread.