Willowbank School, KilmarnockAs part of their SQA healthy cooking and Burns work, the Transition class were Confident Individuals preparing neeps this week. They all peeled and chopped very safely, following instructions very well. however, I don’t think the taste of raw neep was universally liked!
It has been a busy week of Burns’ Supper preparation in Transition class. The class have been Confident Individuals making name tags and hats, trying on kilts, rehearsing singing Burns’ songs, practicing signing and refreshing our memories on setting a table. Everyone played their part well and we are all looking forward to filming our efforts next week.
We have been working very hard this week on our IDL topic, Brave. Merida and her family stay in a castle and so, we have been exploring castles. We have been learning the names for parts of castles by looking at clips on the board, completing worksheets and we even designed and made our own cardboard box castle so we could decorate and label it.
Super work, Asteroids!
As part of our Brave theme, we have been looking at castles this week. We have enjoyed looking at castles on the board and finding out where there are castles in Scotland, Do you know there are over 1000 castles in Scotland?
We made our very own castle, using pictures to help our design. We chose which castle to try and copy and which box to use. We also decided which colours and materials to use to decorate it.
We were all very happy with the way it turned out!
This week we have been focusing on taking turns and playing games. We have used games from the cupboard and enjoyed exploring them and then with support from staff playing them together.
We played animal dominoes and had to find the same animal to put down next. A class favourite was “Wally the washer”. Each person had a washing line and had to push the button on the washing machine to see what items fell out. We were confident individuals pushing the button which opened the machine door. We then had to put their coloured clothes onto our washing line. We had to wait a long time as each person had a turn. We all waited really well. It was a fun afternoon.
This week in the Oak class we have been confident individuals and successful learners in all hard work tasks set across the curriculum.
Everyone has returned to school and completed the first full week back with a motivated frame of mind. We have had many great personal achievements this week, a great start to 2022! Keep this up team Oak!
Everyday before lunch we take part in some active movement, this is us showing our flexibility during yoga, using our foot as a telephone. Then we all enjoy a relaxing meditation story before lunch comes.
We worked hard during numeracy work, theme was sorting and ordering coins, months, days, seasons and special seasonal events.
Independence and confidence during cooking lessons is improving well. This week group 1 enjoyed making toast and scrambled egg. Everyone really enjoyed it despite the pepper lid falling off and falling into the mixture.
*Confident Individuals *Effective Contributors *Successful Learners
We used brushes and toy car wheels to create colourful tartan designs. We used our designs to make paper kilts.
Water Wheel
We looked at a video of a ship on the River Clyde which is called the PS Waverley. It is a paddle steamer. We made our own water wheel to show how water can make things move.
What a sunny day we had to complete our 50 Things outdoor activity. Using a variety of bikes and scooters, we made good attempts to make our wheels turn at speed, using control to go in different directions. Great job, Asteroids!
Today it was snowing. We enjoyed watching the big flakes falling from the sky at morning group. We bought some snow inside to put in out tuff tray and explored it with our hands. It was very cold we made snow balls and even added some food colouring to change the colour of the snow. In the afternoon we went outside to the playground to explore the snow beneath out feet. We heard it crunch and it was slippy so we had to be very careful.
In our last dance session of 2021 the Transition class were Confident Individuals. Everything that we had previously used was on offer and we were all very tired after putting in lots of effort. Well done everybody!
