Dvash Blog

D’vash class have been keeping busy with lots of lessons and activities this week!
In Maths we have been reviewing shapes and learning all about the properties of shapes. We worked on counting the sides and corners of shapes and how to sort them into different groups.
In Literacy we learnt about farm animal babies and everyone really enjoyed singing the Farmyard Jamboree song to name all of the mother and baby animals. Then we all made our own chart to match mother and baby animals and wrote labels or a sentence about them.
I have been so impressed this week by the children’s improving play skills with their friends, everyone is doing a brilliant job at being kind and sharing together with all of the toys we have in D’vash class and in the playground.
Have a wonderful half-term!

It has been another brilliant, busy week in D’vash class!
The children have been learning all about measurement in our Maths lessons. We have measured the weight of lots of our classroom things, using balance scales and real scales. Now we are working on measuring length, using cubes and rulers. We have also been talking all about comparing things by their size, length, height and weight.
Everyone has been really enjoying our Kodesh lessons and whole class therapy sessions. We had great fun at our Shavuot Enrichment Day this week, especially all of the messy play activities and making our own cheesecakes. We have been practicing our acting skills in Matt and Molly with Miss Ashleigh and working hard on our fine motor skills in sessions with Miss Claire and Miss Liv.

D’vash have had a great couple of weeks, with lots of fun activities going on.
We have been working hard in lessons, with all the children trying their best to join in with their friends and take turns when speaking.
We have also been practicing congratulating each other when we get a Middah slip. Last week we all tried our best to be independent for our Middah.
In Maths we have been learning all about money! Everyone is brilliant at recognising the coins and we have also used coins to solve addition and subtraction sums.
In Literacy we have been reading Mrs Wishy-Washy’s Farm, which has become a favourite class story. The children have been using a story map to re-tell the story for their friends and we had a go at re-writing the Story to make our own D’vash Wishy-Washy story.

D’vash Class have settled back into school so well and are all very  happy to be back together again.
This term we are focusing on a farm theme. In art we created our own animal faces and worked together to mix paint colours to make pink and light yellow, for pigs and chicks respectively. We
have been singing lots of farm songs, with “The Farmyard Jamboree” being the current class favourite – it has also helped us to practice our counting skills and learn more about the life cycle. With the weather warming up, we have had lots of opportunities to have our lessons outside and explore the forest. The whole class has also enjoyed using OT room, and we are practising sharing the equipment with our friends and waiting for our turn…we will continue to do lots of work around this in the coming months!
In Maths, we have been learning about money. This week we focused on recognising the coins and matching them into groups, before learning to count the money and make addition sums to add coins together. In free play, we have been pretending to be shoppers and shopkeepers, so we are all ready now the shops are open again!