Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe have all had a great week in the Sungazers Class. We have been learning about firework safety and enjoyed reading a story called ‘Sparks in the Sky’. We even made our own firework pictures in class using different painting skills. Plastic forks, flicking paint from a brush and glitter helped us to create wonderful pictures. We all had good messy fun!
We had fun exploring the colourful patterns of different butterflies and participated actively to match images of butterflies with the same patterns.
We were successful learners and focused our attention to create our own symmetrical butterfly art. We painted a colourful pattern on one side of a butterfly, then folder the paper to copy it to the other side.
We loved opening the pictures to see the finished result!
The Stars class enjoyed a fantastic Hallowe’en week. We did Hallowe’en hard work, iced biscuits and did art and craft. On Friday we dressed up and enjoyed party activities, a sociable snack and a virtual parade. We had a blast!
Oh it is Hallowe’en in the Pine Room.
This successful learner started her week off by working on her writing skills
Using the Feelings Bar to convey how you feel.
Numeracy, MOVE and AAC Devices for these successful learners.
Spooky Counting Songs and Halloween Matching Games – using our Makaton as we go!
Sustainable Development Goal 12(SDG) – We are Responsible Citizens – Recycling, Reusing and Reducing where we can – using the milk carton lids to create art!!
Sensory Flour Play – looking for spiders and other bugs!!!
Working on our Fine Motor Skills – finding tiny Hallowe’en shapes.
Reading ‘Room on the Broom’ a class favourite.
This ECO-Captain says save your paint – wrap it up in a designated zip lock bag for another day.
With our Rainbow Theme we decided to be Rainbow Superheroes – can you guess who is behind each mask?????
The very reluctant Green Superhero!!
Hallowe’en Art with the paint saved from last week – such responsible citizens – SDG 12
Using the different textured brushes was great fun and created lots of different effects.
Hello there!!
Working on our SQA Unit – Recognising a Fictional Character. We have chosen the Colour Monster we like best from the story ‘The Color Monster’ now we are identifying characteristics or features and expressing our opinions about them.
SDG 12 – Recycling the used Batteries and Reusing the Milk Cartons for Halloween.
Our finished textured Art – spooky bats!!
Mr Carl Fredricksen from UP!!
Getting Spooky in the Pine Room!!!!
“Off with your Head!!”
How much fun can we have with a Pumpkin??
Guess Who???
Ready to make some mask???
MOVE – this skeleton is dancing to some spooky music.
Let us in on the joke!!
Have a spooky weekend everyone!!!
The Stars class were confident individuals and effective contributors when enjoying autumn and harvest activities this week. We did leaf colouring on the promethean board, handled colourful, pungent smelling, crunchy and noisy leaves and ground our own flour from wheat. We did harvest sorting activities and created lovely hedgehog pictures and harvest decorations. We also had fun tossing leaves on the parachute!
Monday afternoon we enjoyed some relaxation time in class, some of us got to stretch out on bean bags, watch the sensory lights and listen to some soothing music, others played with the stimulating sensory toys.
One responsible citizen was far to busy to join us – she had a job to do! Sorting out the diaries and the Big Macs.
Tuesday Morning is Numeracy, we were all successful learners carrying out our numeracy tasks. Ordering money, creating cause and effect and making the Smart Board work and listening to the number songs, counting and building the big blocks – and then knocking them down!!!!
Why is this not working?
Got it now!!
…18, 19, 20!!!
Okay good counting! But time to knock it down!!!
Timber!!!!
For Science in keeping with our Colour Monster Theme, we made ‘Exploding Monsters the colours weren’t so effective BUT they did bubble up!!
Wednesday morning we made some hand prints ….I wonder what they are going to be?
Step two together…
Lets start a Band!!!
We were confident individuals in the afternoon showing off our musical skills.
A duet!!!
Today we started to make some stress monsters – picking our Balloons
Making a mess… No …filling them with flour!
Balloons are great fun!!
Using a funnel – and puffing the flour back out of the balloon!!! Wrong Day for Wilson to wear black!!!
All done!!
We have been looking at the changing seasons and decided to use conkers to create cool Art.
We were successful learners and created some great Art work.
Our Cactus Hand prints.
Sensory Play with Shaving Foam – great hand exercises and messy fun!!
Exercising with my new Gaitors on – building muscle strength.
Stretch and grasp.
I was a confident individual on my bike.
Wishing you all a great weekend.
The Transition boys have enjoyed reading and watching ‘The Boy in the Dress’. They applied their design skills from dress making to football strips. They were all very different and colourful!
The Stars class made a poster showing child work and poverty abroad. After printing pizza vegetables we used our switches to take pizza orders then created pictures of our choices. Pepperoni was very popular!
In Numeracy we were all successful learners and worked on our counting skills – lots of counting songs and finding a set of classroom objects for each number.
1 Fly Swat
2 Pretty Flowers
3 Rhythm Sticks
4 Musical Bells
5 Different Feelings
6 Pink Flamingos
7 Classmates
Colour Matching – griping the different objects and posting them through the correct slot.
We enjoyed doing some art work and using bubble wrap to help us create some different effects.
The weather was so nice on Tuesday afternoon we got outside in the sunshine and had great fun having a sing song!!
In keeping with our Rainbow theme this week is all about GREEN, and we have started reading a new story called ‘I do not eat the colour green’.
Music and Move with some confident individuals.
Domino Fun
ICE Pack – How I feel? We are continuing reading the story ‘The Color Monster’ – we all decided what colour and what materials to use to bring our Monsters to life!!!
We have also been looking at the changing seasons and made some beautiful leaves for our windows.
We had some fun with bread dough, it is great exercise for our hands – stretching and griping and a fun sensory experience too!
Have a great weekend
From the Pine Class
The Transition boys were Confident Individuals when doing some beautiful Autumn art using natural materials e.g. leaves branches and conkers.
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