Willowbank School, KilmarnockYesterday at cookery we tasted lots of different Scottish foods. We tried haggis, neeps and tatties. Poppy really liked this. We also tried scotch broth which Maja really enjoyed. We also had pancakes and tattie scone which was a huge hit with Callan, Kayden and John. We will be learning about Glasgow as this is going to be our new theme.
This week we have been getting our Christmas coasters ready for the Willowbank Market.
Reece has been working on her money skills – and charging us for our snack!!
Lots of lovely Christmas Coasters!!!!!
We have been discussing the Shanarri indicators…
are you happy Mrs Boyle?
Shannon enjoyed time in her lift pants… not another photo Mrs Wilson!!!
We made some new sensory bottles – for the days of the week all bright and pretty colours.
We all enjoy listening to each others news during Morning Group.
On the MOVE again!!!
On Wednesday morning we went out and had a lovely walk around the Kay Park – the colours were pretty, it was a wee bit chilly, but we were safe and happy.
Reece was a Confident Individual and made Mars Bar Slice on Wednesday – she did lots of mixing, melting in the microwave, pressing the mixture into the tin and spreading the chocolate.
Our packaged coasters – buy them at the Market!!!
Social Snack – Toast and Mars Bar Slice and lots of fun!!
Now to walk to Aberdeen – 52hours!!!! Cycle – 15hours!!!
Melanie and Reece are taking the bus.
Adam wants to go by train.
Jessica by car!!!
What about you Shannon??
Willow enjoyed training with the Aberdeen University Ladies Lacrosse team this week – it was a cold night but the ladies kept him entertained.
Last Saturday Mrs Wilson took Willow to Edinburgh on the Train, he stayed overnight then Heather took him to Aberdeen on Sunday.
We started making our Enterprise activity for the Christmas Market.
We made lovely pictures with Mrs MacDonald.
We made soup in Cookery and then had it for snack the next day – yummy!!
Adam did great in his Walker.
We all loved seeing Jessica’s holiday photos.
We worked out how long it would take us to get to Aberdeen.
Driving would take 3 hours and 2minutes, the train 3 hours and 55 minutes and the bus 4 hours and 28 minutes.
Reece loves helping with Shannon’s switch and telling her parents all the news from the Pine Room.
Melanie made us giggle with her relaxed pose!!
Last week because it was Bonfire Night we made our own firework/sparkler inspired treats.
We melted chocolate and the added giant stars and sprinkles to make them look lovely. We let them set and then some of us ate them for our snack.
For our new Theme – Scottish Cities – we are studying Aberdeen. So Willow the Bear is packing his case and heading off to explore the Granite City! On Saturday he is getting the train to Edinburgh with Mrs Wilson, and then Mrs Wilson’s daughter Heather will be taking him the rest of the way.
Willow has been getting in on all our activities this week.
We having been working on our numeracy skills this week – one of our activities was a game of BINGO – Adam won!!
During the game Shannon tried to distract Reece by getting the remote for her chair and making it go up – Reece thought this was really funny!!
Melanie laughed when Reece was helping her with her numbers and had the 5 upside down.
Reece has been a successful learner and used the ICT to do some of her numeracy – Adam enjoyed this too!
For cookery this week we made Children in Need Biscuits – yummy!!!
Jessica had raised money for jeans for Genes and got a special mention on Milkshake on Monday Morning – Well Done!!!!
This week we made cup cakes and decorated them like wee bonfires – Reece took charge and Adam was the chief taster.
We worked on our Numeracy Skills.
And we started working n our Christmas Show Dance…
This week we had fun creating our fund raising Christmas Cards.
In Home Economics we melted chocolate and mixed in rice krispies and turned them into Halloween Spiders – hope you enjoyed them.
SQA Classes started this week – so we have all been really busy.
Now we are off for some FUN with Singing Hands and Hallowe’en!!!!!!
Last Friday we make some lovely seasonal art – two beautiful hedgehogs.
In Science we made a Skittle Rainbow. By placing Skittles round a plate and pouring really warm water on them – step back and watch the magic!!!
The afternoon was spent enjoying the company of the others in secondary and raising some money for McMillan. Jessica also raised money for Jeans for Genes!!!!
This week has been great because Adam is back – and we were all so pleased to see him and he was pleased to see us too!!
In Home Economics we made Jelly Pots – so we counted in some different sweets, watched some rise and some sink and when we saw them later the runny mixture had set!!! Just like the jelly in our story.
Reece enjoyed a bubbly foot spa in Sensory play.
And Shannon impressed us in her lift pants.
While Jessica was in her Standing Frame Jacob kept her entertained with the Switch IT Songs.
Today we walked down the Primary corridor and looked for the pictures for our literacy hunt. And this afternoon enjoyed relaxation and Tac-Pac!!
Today we had a Macmillan snack morning with all the other infant classes. Yesterday during our cookery time we decorated cakes and biscuits with two different types of icing and used sprinkled. We had to use the rolling pin to roll one type of icing and then mix the other type using a spoon. We had lots of fun and were confident at rolling and mixing independently at times. Today we sat at a very long table in the corridor with lots of our friends and ate some green snacks and some of our own snacks too. It was an enjoyable morning. 
Last Friday we had a lovely time at the Fun day – we saw the Ponies, Owls and lots of other fluffy animals.
In keeping with our theme we made four different types of Angel Delight. Some of them we made in the big mixer, and presses the switch to make it mix – others went old school and used a rotary whisk!!! Then tasted them to decide which one we liked best, the Bluebell Class joined us for the tasting.
Assembly was about Harvest – and even better it was Sensory!!
This morning we went on a Literacy Hunt to look for symbols to put on to our Board.
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