Room One at Windsor Park School for the Deaf

Simone has been talking about Autumn with her class in Bantaskin. Mrs Cowie, Mrs Maley, Mrs Purves and Miss Kirkwood took Simone’s class outside on an Autumn walk. It was a little bit wet when we set off but it soon dried up.
We walked down to Westburn Avenue and looked for some leaves. We found lots of green, yellow, orange and red leaves. During Autumn leaves change colour and fall from the trees. Simone found some chestnuts and some empty chestnut shells. Mrs Cowie told us about a game called ‘Conkers’ when we tied a few chestnuts to a string and try and break our friends chestnuts. I can be a bit sore so we can’t play it when we are Bantaskin. We even saw some toadstools growing around the tree trunks outside. These can be poisonous so we don’t touch them!
On our way back we saw Bantaskin Nursery’s Autumn display, it was full of things we see at this time of year.
Here are some pictures from our Autumn walk… can you see all the pretty Autumn colours?

Our assembly is ‘The Rainbow Fish’. It is all about a fish who thinks he is the most beautiful fish in the whole ocean. He doesn’t play with the other fish because he thinks he is better than them all. He doesn’t share his beautiful shiny scales out, he is very greedy! The other fish ignore him and he feels very alone and sad. The old Starfish tells him to go and visit the Wise Octopus who lives far away in a dark cave. Rainbow Fish swims for miles and miles and reaches the dark cave where he is surrounded in darkness and is a little frightened. The Wise Octopus tells Rainbow Fish to share out his scales with all the fish and then he will be happy. Rainbow Fish doesn’t understand this and returns to his part of the ocean. The Little Blue Fish sees Rainbow Fish and asks him for a little scale, Rainbow Fish gives the little fish the smallest scale and sees how happy it makes him. Rainbow Fish feels happy! He gives all the other fish a scale until he only has one left. The other fish ask Rainbow Fish to join them and he finds he is very happy with lots of friends to play with.

We have been practising for our assembly for most of this week on stage, making props and scenery.  Mrs Boslem took some photographs of our dress rehearsal…

Peter has been learning all the numbers from 0-20. All the numbers have a special place on the numberline and it is important we know where they all belong. Peter is practising to count backwards from 20 and learning what numbers come before and after on the numberline.

Here is Peter hard at work in Bantaskin Primary.

Simone and the rest of her primary one class went outside with a tube of bubbles.

They blew bubbles. There were big bubbles, small bubbles, burst bubbles and colourful bubbles.

Simone tried to burst the bubbles by stamping on them.

In class Simone drew a wonderful picture of herself and the bubbles and Mrs Boslem scribed the sentence “I am bursting the bubbles in the playground.” Mrs Cowie chose Simone to be one of the star writers for the week. Well done Simone!

Matthew was reading a poem all about mice today. As part of his language activity he was asked to make his own mouse fact file. He thought of three interesting facts and wrote them into his jotter. He then decided he’d like to type his fact file and use some pictures he found on the internet. Have a look at his fabulous fact file!

Mouse Fact File     

3. Mice are grey and white.

Welcome back to Room One at Windsor Park School for the Deaf in Falkirk. I hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer break and are ready to have fun learning lots of new and interesting things this year.