During intervention this week the group have worked on developing their personal and social development skills and emotions. They followed the visual structure and routine to clean their teeth and the importance of keeping them clean and healthy. Jenson was very happy piping mashed potato out onto emotions boards and saying which emotion it was.…
In maths this week we focussed on fractions having equal parts. We cut up pancakes into 1/2 (half) and 1/4 (quarter). We used the segments of an orange and put them into thirds, and for a challenge we succeeded to cut a cupcake into sixths. The children recognised that when they halved, quartered and cut the…
In Art today Hazel class explored colour changing. They discussed what primary are and how we can make secondary colours. Some pupils used PECS to request the colours and then comment on what colour they had made. Being able to use PECS in a more cross curricular way enables pupils to generalise the skill.…
Hazel class use PECS in lots of different ways. In English we were commenting on what we could see in the book. In Maths we were working on our counting and number recognition skills as well as shape and colour.
Today in P3 some of the pupils went to Pizza Hut. We took the opportunity to use our PECS skills in a different way. Generalising our PECS communication to request different items from the menu. As you can see we had lots of fun and are very full. Communication is fun!
In P3 we communicate in many different ways. Today we enjoyed playing games using our PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) communication books. Mr Potato Head Pupils had to request the different body parts for Mr Potato Head using PECS. This meant being able to recognise and match a symbol to the object before attaching…