Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe second half of the Transition class had their chance to work on photo route cards this week. They were Successful Learners following last weeks’ photo route to find marked stones. They then set their own trail, learning how to make a route for others to follow. This is a skill that they will put in to practice when they compete their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition.
Following on from their neep preparation last week some of the Transition class used their neeps in their cookery class this week. They were Confident Individuals dealing with hot water and pans to boil their neeps before mashing them. They had to have a wee bit of haggis just to help the neeps go down! They confidently used the microwave, kettle and stove top along with different preparation implements.
The Transition class were Successful Learners when they worked on their SQA topic. They used character descriptions that they had made to identify characters displayed on the board. The class must have made very good character descriptions because they scored 100% in the identification quiz.
The Transition class were Responsible Citizens this week when they recorded a virtual Burns Supper for the rest of the school to watch on Burns Night. They set up the classroom to look like a real Burns Supper, setting the table and dressing the room and then took the responsibility for different elements of the ‘night’. We had the haggis piped in, speeches and we finished with a sung and signed rendition of Auld Land Syne. The videos were then uploaded to the school computer to share with all the other classes. Well done everyone!
At our Drake Music time this week the Transition class were Confident Individuals. After our warm up things started to get more complicated! The class listened well and followed hand signals to make different sounds, some high and some low. They then followed colours and shapes to contribute to a class performance of Auld Lang Syne. We are all looking forward to next week!
The Transition class had a very busy and happy time in the PE hall this week. They were all Effective Contributors marching, bouncing and drumming in time to the music. We then used our rhythm skills to take part in ceilidh dancing. Everyone followed instructions well and had a great dance. Well done!
*Effective Contributors* *Responsible Citizens*
The Snowdrops have been working hard on our Glasgow Gruffalo theme this week and after seeing pictures of the River Clyde we decided to have some water play and make our own boats. We gathered some recyclable materials to make our boats and worked in pairs to choose items that we would add to the base of our boat. We decorated sails for our boat and attached these, too. The Snowdrops worked well together and everyone contributed to the making of our fleet! Great work, Snowdrops!
*Successful Learners* *Responsible Citizens*
We had a great time this week exploring our ECO targets in class. We set ourselves the task of finding a way to not waste so much food in the kitchen during cookery. We decided to find a way to use discarded food by making our own wormery using soil, sand, stones, leaves and vegetable peelings from the soup that we made.
Successful Learner using the AAC Device to tell us how he is feeling at Morning Group.
Fun making Confetti Pictures.
Our lovely Scottish Art Display, that we have been working on for our IDL.
Confident Individuals working with the stickle bricks in Numeracy.
Using the light box and gel numbers in Numeracy.
SQA Baking working on our mixing skills to make Krispy Cakes.
Touching all the different ingredients…snap, crackle and pop!!
SQA Communication – we started watching the film Inside Out, we have also looked at ICE Pack ‘How I feel?’ and talked about what gave us JOY and what made us SAD.
Painting character plates.
For our 50 Things we painted with things we found in the garden – very cool!!
This week in literacy our letter was ‘I’ words starting with I are hard to find BUT we managed!! And made some lovely ice-cream pictures.
Have a great weekend!!
*Successful Learners* *Effective Contributors*
This week we had a look at famous Scottish people, Inventors in particular. We learned about Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the first telephone. To experience different ways that sound travels, we made cup phones and sent messages to each other using them. We had a lot of fun!
