Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe have been confident individuals learning about zones of regulation and that our emotions can change throughout the day depending on everything that is happening around me.
We have completed a lot of work on feelings and strategies to carry out to help regulate our emotions and make us feel happier.
We created an emotional rollercoaster that we change throughout the day when a situation arises that could cause our emotions to change.
Today we had lots of fun with different activities and games. We played a farm animal matching game and had to find all the animals that were the same. We were confident individuals and effective contributors sharing and letting everyone have a turn.
In the Oak class we have been involved in weekly lessons based on LGBT. Our work is focused around two books and this week the book is ‘Prince Henry’. A story about love and equality between two people. Everyone has the choice to fall in love with whoever they want.
We spoke about our family network and who is around us and the people that care and love us. We created a family tree and we were confident individuals when sharing with our friends.
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The Snowdrops have been learning about Animal Habitats as part of their science focus this term. Everyone has enjoyed exploring various animal habitats (such as woodland/forest, desert/sand, water and ice/snow) through sensory play, watching video clips and matching activities.
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As part of our Eco/Sustainable Development work on Good Health and Wellbeing (move and smile more), the Snowdrops have enjoyed participating in lots of different movement activities.
We have enjoyed outdoor games and activities such as playing with a ball, riding bikes and exploring other playground equipment. In the class we have had good fun participating in sensory MOVE activities, Scottish dancing and songs, active numeracy and literacy tasks as well as class yoga sessions.
We did lots of heart activities for Valentine’s Day. Yesterday we made cards by painting our hands and making a heart shape and made love heart bird feeders. Today we were confident individuals using heart paint stampers to create a bright heart designs on black card. We also used crayons to colour in heart shapes focussing on our pencil control. We also got to use the hole punch using our fine motor skills to push down to make holes in our red heart shape.
For LGBT month we are learning about different families. We had to be confident individuals and identify our family members to create our personal family tree. We shared this with our friends and discussed about how different families are made.
We are learning through our book ‘We are Together’, this celebrates the power of love, friendship and acceptance. We are all unique and should chase our dreams, when we have the correct support and come together with others we make a great team.
We are learning the signs thanks to Singing Hands, ‘Together everything will be ok’ and together we can raise awareness and acceptance of who you are.
The Transition class were Confident Individuals when choosing their feelings during different tasks. The class tried a mint sweet and shared how this made their mouths feel. Some pupils didn’t enjoy the mint and shared this with the rest of the class. Some pupils enjoyed the mint and shared their feeling with the class. some feelings were ‘wiggly’, ‘cold’ and ‘jaggy’.
After ward the class removed their socks and shoes and placed their feet onto the carpet. They all selected symbols to share how their feet felt with the rest of the class.
The Transition class spent an afternoon identifying their own skills then linking them to jobs. The class were Confident Individuals selecting then colouring balloons that contained their strengths. The pupils then thought about these skills and selected jobs that may be interesting or use their strengths.
Scones were the order of the week in the Transition class. The pupils were all Confident Individuals when following the recipe and using kitchen equipment. There were some fantastic fine motor skills on display, rubbing the butter into the flour. Some light tasty scones were the result of an afternoon of hard work.
