Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition boys were Effective Contributors this week when they were working in the cookery room. They used their literacy skills to follow the recipe and their numeracy skills to weigh and measure ingredients. The boys successfully made delicious chocolate cakes
We enjoyed listening to a firework story and then we made sparkly firework pictures. We were working on our fine motor skills to complete this task.
Café Latte has opened again for the year so we were busy making cupcakes for the café on Friday. Everyone was effective contributors and enjoying making and of course doing a quick quality control taste test once they were ready.
Scone!!! (it’s gone)
This week the Transition boys made pumpkin spiced scones. the boys were all Effective Contributors as they all enjoyed mashing the roasted pumpkin and grating the cold butter (which felt very strange!). The scones were a clear winner judging by the photographs!
This week we have been working on making choices – by selecting our favourite characters from the film ‘Inside Out’ using pictures, sensory bottles and the oil mats.
We also been working on our numeracy skills using the Switch IT Games and colourful objects to count. Jacob enjoys the Switch IT games, Reece and Jessica love working together.
We continued with our Cloudy with a chance of meatballs theme this week and made Cheesy Rolls – yummy!!! The dough proved – got REALLY BIG – the Science bit!!! we kneaded it, added the cheese and baked it.
Adam got a great honour in receiving a Head Teachers Award, he was really pleased and we were all really proud – he is just trying to look really cool!!!!
Transition class grew their own vegetables, then used this to make a pasta vegetable dish to share with beech class being Responsible Citizens
So, we attempted to make our own pizza dough! Unfortunately we were unsuccessful learners, it didn’t actually turn into pizza dough. Although we were all effective contributors to take our turn at kneading the dough. It turned into a gloopy mess.
So we had to use shop bought version and everyone enjoyed eating it at the end of our FOW Fun day.
The Transition boys were Confident Individuals while preparing and tasting cheese from around the world.
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.
Although there were no cookies involved there was a crumble. The Transition boys made quite a large Apple crumble on Thursday in cooking and it was delicious. Everyone did their jobs very well and were all Effective Contributors during the morning. None managed to make it home and for a change it wasn’t Mr Jenkinson’s fault.
In cooking this week, all the boys in Transition were eggs-tra Confident Individuals when choosing what they would like to make. Everyone chose what their favourite types of eggs are and whether they’d like to use bread or a roll. We had scrambled eggs, fried eggs, an omelette and even some French toast. Everyone had a cracking time and enjoyed an eggs- quisite brunch in cooking.
