The Hangout

The Hangout loved joining Mrs Simpkin for art this afternoon. The focus was on fossils and drawing fossils with fine line pens. Amazing art work. 

The Hangout have been reading the lovely story Leaf Man. We have chatted about autumn, looked at what autumn looks like as well as talked about spotting the signs of winter. We collected leaves, had a walk around the school field and jumped in the mud. We have written about the story, about…

This week in The Hangout we read ‘Pumpkin Soup’ story, explored pumpkins and made our very own pumpkin soup! Yum! We carefully used knives to chop the pumpkin and onion, for ease we used a soup maker to cook our soup. It was delicious!

The Hangout have enjoyed creating some poppy art as part of our remembrance week.  They used water colours to create their artwork. 

The Hangout have been practising their fundamental skills in PE Plus. They have been moving like animals such as, bouncing like kangaroos, rolling like hedgehogs, and climbing like monkeys!

This week The Hangout have been reading Supermarket Zoo, a lovely story. Our task was to use pictures from the story and sequence them correctly.

The Hangout have enjoyed joining in with African drumming, African dancing and African singing led by the amazing African Choir.  They’ve had a lovely day!

Our finished masterpieces!

We splattered paint for the background, combined colours for our own skin tone to paint our faces, used oil pastels to draw our facial features, mixed paint to match our hair colour, tore and applied colourful tissue paper to decorate a t-shirt, mixed 2 primary…

This week, The Hangout made pizzas during their senses and tasting activity. They explored the smells and tastes of tomato purée, garlic powder, cheese, chilli powder and herbs. Some of the children added these to their pizzas. Great work everyone! 

Over the past couple of week, The Hangout have been taking part in different writing tasks linked to the story Dear Zoo.  We have created our very own version of Dear Zoo, it is amazing.  Other writing tasks have included, sequencing, completing sentences, using adjectives to describe the animals,…

The Hangout love daily Attention Autism sessions. We are working on Stages 1, 2 and 3. 
 

Attention Autism is a learning approach that aims to help children to develop attention and communication skills. 
 

Stage 1: The bucket to focus attention - 3 toys

Stage 2: The attention builder -…

In The Hangout, we had fun exploring different feelings. We pulled different faces for feelings and used a mirror to look at our facial expressions.