The Transition class spent an afternoon making spooky treats. We used food colouring to make green, orange and black icing. Each pupil chose either a pumpkin or a spider and drew it in icing. We added decoration before scoffing the lot!
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Home learning – week beg 8th Feb
Hi everyone, I hope you are all well. This month is LGBT month, and we would have been reading a book all about different families. This book is called “The Family Book” by Todd Parr. Click the link to hear the story being read on YouTube.
Literacy
Rainbow hop
Let’s continue the rainbow theme. Make giant letters in different colours and place them on the floor. You could start with (s a t p i n), someone at home can help, then they can shout out a letter and you have to run and jump onto the correct letter. You could even do it with the letters of your name and then find each letter in the correct order to spell your name.
Numeracy
Shapes are all around us and we had been exploring different shapes in the classroom. Look around the house and see what shapes you can find. You can also play this Shape game .In the game you need to feed the monsters the correct shapes.
Health and Wellbeing
Make a pizza
Make your own pizza at home. Try using a wrap, pitta bread or pizza base. Spread the sauce over the base, then add your toppings – there are lots of things you could add to your pizza. Why not have a go and create an LGBT rainbow pizza. Is your pizza round or square? Did you enjoy your pizza?
Chinese New Year
This week is also Chinese New Year. You could try different Chinese foods at home such as noodles, prawn crackers and prawn toast. Email me and let me know what you liked.
This year is the year of the Ox. I was born in the year of the Goat. Use this website to find out which animal you are and more information about Chinese New Year.
You could make a colourful lantern by folding a piece of paper in half making some slits not quite to the end of the paper, decorate then twist into a cylinder shape and secure with glue or staples and add a strip of paper to the top to create a handle. You could place a battery-operated tea light in the bottom and see the light shine through.
The Transition boys were Responsible Citizens this Friday when they took part in some Macmillan Cancer Support tasks. The boys decorated a biscuit to make a head and face for a gingerbread man and then they decorated part of a swiss roll to make a caterpillar ( caterpillars seem to be a recurring theme in the class this week!)
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Monday 8th June
Hello everybody!
Another week already! I hope you are all still keeping well. The weather for this week looks quite mixed. The home learning this week is a mixture of indoor and outdoor activities so you can dodge any potential rain showers! I have chosen two activities from Wilderness Outdoor Education. They have lots of good activities. You all know I like my food so there is another fire-pit recipe and some work around the human body. I would love to see pictures of your creations.
Here is this week’s learning. Home learning 8th June
Stay healthy and be kind to each other.
Mr Nicoll
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Tuesday May the 26th
Hello everybody,
I hope you have had a nice ‘long weekend’.
This week we were supposed to be going on our residential trip, but we are healthy and happy at home in stead. The weather look better so this week’s learning is linked to being outdoors. There are video instructions below for different activities and I’ll be on the blog later this week with some activities that we would have done on our residential. Links below are from East Ayrshire’s Learning Outdoor Support Team (LOST).
https://youtu.be/24tobbN1CQw – How to make a simple sundial
https://youtu.be/smkLquPz7Y8 – An omelette in a bag
https://youtu.be/GCqHUwaVOgY – Fun with sticks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05N2jqFHc8 – The stick song (just because I love it!) CBeebies
Stay healthy and be kind to each other.
Mr Nicoll
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Outdoor Cooking
Happy Friday everyone! Here is an instruction video showing you how to make bread on a fire pit. Make sure you have adult help when working near a fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpRjrI5feoU
Have a great long weekend!
Stay healthy and be kind to each other
Mr Nicoll
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Weekly Oak Activities
Hi everyone, we hope you are all well! Let’s find out what activities we have for this week.
Literacy: 
What do I need? Partner, paper and pencil.
Choose someone in the house to play a game of ‘I Spy’ with you. Write down the letter of the item you are trying to guess. Once you have guessed it correctly, ask an adult to spell it out for you and practice your handwriting.
Numeracy: 
What do I need? Paper and pens
Ask an adult to help you with this task, the adult needs to hide one of your favourite toys. The adult needs to make a directional map using arrows for you to follow to find your toy. (for example: start forward 10 steps, turn right, forward 2 steps, turn left, forward 3 steps, etc until you reach the finish position).
Cooking – Lunchtime meals
This week try and be a confident individual and try and make your own lunch.
Mr Robertson enjoyed a sandwich and Miss Miller had some soup for her lunch. What will you have?
Below are some links to our YouTube channel for a video on how to make a sandwich or a toastie for lunch.
Gammon Sandwich
Ham & Cheese Toastie
Class Pet: 
Our caterpillars are safely within their cocoons now, Mrs Murray transferred them into their butterfly house. This was a lot of responsibility and Mrs Murray was nervous as she didn’t want to harm any of them. Hopefully by next week we may have some butterflies.
Watch the video on youtube – Insect Lore Butterfly Garden Instructions. Click here
Music:
This week can you all sing and sign the song ‘Better Place’ by singing hands. You will find this video on YouTube, click here
Life Skills: 
This week can you look out your clean clothes for each day. Have a chat with an adult about what clothes you need to put on. Make sure you put your dirty clothes in the laundry basket before going to bed at night.
Art: 
Keeping with our Rainbow theme for this Lockdown, make another Lockdown keepsake for you and your family. Click here to watch a video
Make a rainbow handprint of all your family and paint it once it is dry. Here is what you need for your salt dough recipe;
250g plain flour (if you are lucky enough to have flour)
125g table salt
125ml water
Once you have created your salt dough handprint before baking in the oven, put a BBQ skewer into the bottom of the hand as this will help you to display your family handprints in an upright position. Also cut out the handprint before putting in the oven.
Have fun this week and remember stay home and stay safe. We are all missing you! Glad to hear you are all doing great at home, proud of you and keep it up!
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Let’s Get Busy Oak Team
Well Oak team, here is another week of activities for you all to try out at home. You are under no obligation to complete, however if you do please leave a comment as we would love to know how you are and if you are enjoying your activities.
I haven’t had any song requests yet, for a new dance. You must have a favourite song you would like to dance to!
Let’s get started with your activities for the week.
Art:
Shadow Drawing
What do I need? – Chalk, sun and a partner
There has to be more sunshine this week, so get out into the garden. If you have chalk, choose someone in your family to stand and create their shadow. With help draw around their shadow and reveal their outline! If you do not have chalk get some paper, pencil and a toy and draw round the shadow of your chosen toy. Who does this shadow look like?
Lockdown Rainbow
What do I need? – Paint, sticks, paper, paint brushes, (frame is optional)
Again on your daily walk or in your garden can you find more sticks. You could make a stick rainbow picture and put it in a frame as ‘Lockdown’ 2020 keepsake. I will post a finished picture of ours once it is complete but here it is so far;
Literacy:
Disappearing Words
What do I need? – Chalk, garden hose / squirty bottle and water
Get an adult to write some sight or tricky words on the ground. The adult will shout out a word and you have to identify the correct word and then use your hose or water bottle to make the words disappear. The words can be names of people in your family, people in school, everyday words that you use or hear (bed, toilet, drink, food, etc)
Numeracy: 
Family Bingo
What do I need? – paper, pens, YouTube and your family
If you do not have bingo cards at home, get an adult to put 12 numbers on a piece of paper, (numbers range from 1-90). Get everyone in your family to play, everyone needs a card, then use YouTube bingo caller for the numbers.
Choose a prize before you start the game and see who wins!
Cooking: 
Breakfast Meal– What do you like to eat for breakfast? Cereal? Toast? Eggs?
Every morning this week try and get your own breakfast, on Monday you need help from an adult but maybe by Friday you can do most of it by yourself.
Think about what you need, bowl, plate, spoon, knife, bread or milk.
Here are some faces you will recognise, this is what they like for breakfast;
Life Skills:
Each week you will have a different focus, this week we would like you to concentrate on making your bed.
IDL – Can you look around your house or garden and find things that could make a den / tent. If you have a tent, put it up in the garden this week and have fun in it.
Music – I hope you are all still singing and signing, each week we will have a different singing hands song to focus on. Find their videos on Youtube and get the family all taking part. From the singing bag a new song will be revealed each week. This week we are going to be singing, Million Dreams! Have fun!
Class pet update – Butterflies
All five not so little caterpillars are doing well, they have almost ate all their food now! They are getting so big, I think it may be time for the next stage of their life cycle! They look as though they are about to get comfy, stop eating and hang on the lid to spin themselves into chrysalis. Once they are in this comfy cocoon this is where they transform into beautiful butterflies. I wonder what colour they will be? Have you made you butterfly pictures and guessed their colour yet? I wonder if anyone will get it right!
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Candy Cane Swiss Roll
We were all effective contributors when attempting to make our candy cane swiss roll. We all had a job to do to make our mixture, we all showed great determination to make it work. We wanted to end the year with a success! So need to make a second batch of mixture, it turned out not bad!
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Beans Means Success
The Transition boys were Confident Individuals in the cookery room this week. They were set the challenge to independently make one serving of beans on toast. They boys successfully and safely portioned the beans, used the microwave and toaster and spread their own butter. Their reward for achieving this was…….a lovely plate of beans on toast!
