The Hangout

The Hangout children and staff are happy to be back and into a routine. We have enjoyed getting stuck in the past two days. We have been working hard with reading, handwriting, art, plus lots more, including socialising with our friends. 
 

Our new computing unit is ‘Design.’ Our first task involved designing an animal shelter and our second involved designing a treehouse. Lots of fun was had, the children were very creative in their choice during the design process.

We have been creating digital art pictures using pixels. 

Our focus has been around the story Oliver’s Vegetables. We visited the Concourse and went to the fruit and vegetable shop to buy vegetables. We bought vegetables that appeared in the book and explored them. We used our senses to explore the vegetables and talked about what we like and don’t…

The Hangout have been learning ordinal numbers. We started with running races and ordering people, we then moved onto objects e.g. car races, animals queuing up, etc and ended with ordering events.

Over the past couple of weeks, The Hangout have been enjoying stage 1 and stage 2 of attention autism (bucket time).  Children love these sessions and it is great to see how focused they are. 
Attention Autism is a learning approach that aims to help Autistic children develop attention and…

This week in our computing lesson, we have been creating digital art. We have been learning to change the colour of individual pixels to accurately re-create basic artwork.

In The Hangout, we have weekly PE Plus sessions. These sessions focus on the fundamental movement skills:

• Running
• Jumping
• Coordination
• Throwing
• Catching
• Kicking
• Striking

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…