Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Stars class made mars bar cake which we sold in school for Macmillan Day. There was only one piece left………….and that didn’t last long back in class! We are proud to say we made £9.90 to donate to the appeal. We participated in Friday afternoon activities. We iced biscuits, created a colourful cupcake picture, made a fizzing green volcano and enjoyed sensory handling. A great afternoon was had by all.
We have been working very hard at turn taking and balancing in PE this term. We have been confident individuals risk assessing before balancing and looking for some support from an adult or friend when we need it.
Well what an afternoon, everyone loved the drum kit! Smiles all round and excellent concentration when trying to listen to the music and tap the beat.
A room filled with confident individuals, when engaging in their music lesson. The Oak gang are currently working on two songs; ‘I’ve got a feeling’ and ‘Make your own kind of music’.
Our morning group, everyone is confident individuals and sign in, choose a friend then say ‘Good morning’. Great interaction with class friends every day with no prompting.
So this week we were successful learners making homemade pizza. We made no yeast pizza dough and our own fresh tomato sauce.
Everyone was pleased with the results and it tasted delicious, Our pizza dough was made from flour and low fat natural yoghurt.
Our IDL topic book ‘Pizza Day’ explains about all working together to create lovely healthy food, tidying up afterwards and siting together to share the food we all made.
The Stars class had a fantastic time at the Friends of Willowbank Fun Day. Thanks to the Brass and Granite who gifted picnic boxes which we enjoyed at snack time. They were very tasty indeed. We met beautiful therapy ponies, had fun activities in the hall and petted gorgeous guinea pigs, rabbits, very noisy ducks and a tortoise. We had a very happy day.
We had a great day today having lots of fun at different activities.
We were confident individuals exploring the inflatable slide, and were responsible citizens making we had gentle hands when we visited the rabbits, guinea pigs and ducks.
This week the Stars class presented assembly where we talked about being ‘included’ and included other classes by asking them to vote for their favourite song to dance to at the end. The Proclaimers, ‘500 Miles’, was the winning song. We also enjoyed a colour treasure hunt in the garden and had a wonderful sensory experience exploring chocolate ‘Angel Delight’.
The Transition boys were Confident Individuals when they were practising their balancing skills on the beam. They had to stand, walk and turn without touching the ground.
Here are some of the ways we have used numbers and celebrated the joy of maths this week!
We are in Italy this week as part of our mini-topic! We made pizza’s by counting the number of different ingredients customers wanted on their pizza
The girls enjoyed counting and sorting the different shaped ingredients.
We did some work on Roman numerals by taking part in a code-breaking treasure hunt.
We listened to some numbers in Italian and played some parachute games using Italian numbers!
Gemma using our daily calendar to find the date
Sean practising counting out cups for his friends at snack time and giving them out to his friends.
Numberblocks time!
We used our number knowledge in cookery this week to measure out ingredients needed to make lemonade and truffles.
Gemma and Nicole utilised their money handling skills at our weekly tuck shop!
Fun with food this week, we made fruit faces and tasted / licked a variety of food.
All boys were confident individuals to try some of the fruit that they would not normally choose to eat.
Our topic work this term is learning to develop our life skills through our book study, Soup Day & Pizza Day.
We will develop our skills in the following areas;
We made vegetable soup today in cooking, on Monday we made the shopping list for all the ingredients we would need. Today, we were effective contributors to work together to prepare the vegetables and make the soup.
