Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition boys were Responsible Citizens when they checked the new school gazebo. They read the instructions and checked all the moving parts before setting it up and checking that it was all in good working order. We understand how it works and are ready to set up for next week’s Garden Party.
The Transition class were working towards the end of Peter Pan this week. They were Successful Learners using their literacy skills to listen to the audio from the digital book and using their fine motor skills to dot paint a picture. This will help them further develop their writing motor skills. We chose to paint Captain Hook, he is our favourite baddy!
Confident Individuals and Successful Learners
To celebrate POLO/Den Day, the Sunflower class actively participated in a variety of outdoor activities including catching bubbles and chalk painting. Each child loved time playing on the seesaws, balancing trail, roundabout and swings. We also loved making our own den’s and relaxing with some sensory lights and music to end the day.
The Transition boys were Successful Learners this week when they used their numeracy skills in a cafe in the classroom. The boys had to sort their money, pick their items for lunch, calculate the total and hand over the correct money. Unfortunately all the food was plastic so we missed out on a mega feast!
We enjoyed a lot of art this week, we have our class beach party next week. We have been getting decorations made to have the class ready for our beach party.
We were successful learners during our literacy listening work, we turned numbers into pictures. We were very proud of our work!
Today we were celebrating the power of outdoor learning. We combined this with our moment in history for our country. We were all effective contributors to make a Scotland flag with our chalk sticks. Then we wrote ‘COME ON SCOTLAND’. Great team work in the Oak class here!
We had fun trying out a water trick, we had a cup with a small amount of water in it, then a ping pong ball. We had to swirl the water round and round and then drop the cup to see how high we could get the ball to catapult up into the sky.
Confident Individuals Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams have enjoyed their outdoor learning sessions today. They had lots of fun creating potions and recipes in our outdoor kitchen and played well together while on the outdoor apparatus and playground equipment.
The class also enjoyed visiting the Swans and feeding them during our outing to Kay Park on Monday.
Power of Learning Outdoors – POLO – Successful Learning in the Garden – look at our lettuce and onions!!!
Signing Practice – Baby Shark
We anticipated that Friday’s weather might not be so good – so we carried out some of our POLO Activities earlier in the week
Sunshine!!!
We were working on our 50 Things too and instead of waiting for rain we created some!!!
SPLASH!!!!
Are you ready???
Water Balloons – throw them!!!
Literacy outside too!!
What a funny story!!!
Ready for some bubble wrap Art
What a bunch of Confident Individuals in Art!!!
What a Responsible Citizen.
Successful Learners Numeracy and MOVE
Knock it down…knock it down…..
….Well done!!!!!!
Sensory Cereal Play – using our fine motor skills looking for small candy eyeballs!!!
Crunch and pop!!! Different textures and feels.
Football Fun!!!
GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Squishy Painting
Using the Bubble Machine too!!
Great Copying.
Creating ’cause and effect’ with the switches.
Great fun in Numeracy playing Snakes and Ladders.
Have a great relaxing weekend everyone!!!!
As it was POLO ( Power off Learn Outdoors) day in school, we took part in many Outdoor Learning Activities.
We placed different objects in the water tray to see if they would float or sink!
We had fun drawing shapes and writing names with chalk! 
We worked together to build some dens, walls and towers! 
We had fun this week practising our cutting and spreading skills when we made funky sandwiches! We each chose our toppings and fillings then chose a shape to cut our sandwich in to. We then went outside to enjoy a picnic in the sunshine!
