Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Stars Class rehearsed hard to learn our dance for the school Christmas concert. As angels we danced to Michael Buble’s ‘Save the Last Dance for me’ to critical acclaim from the ‘Lights, Camel, Action’ judges. We enjoyed learning and performing our dance.
We were all confident individuals in the kitchen making our chocolate cup cakes.
We made lovely stained glass Christmas trees which are proudly displayed on our window.
Shannon loved a wee bit of floor time with her toys.
Reece has been confidently learning her Christmas words and making up some Christmas stories.
Buddy has arrived and has been creating havoc!!!!
Reece was very annoyed he had scissors!!!!
We love our new Christmas Aprons.
Buddy arrived at school in a Balloon today!!
On Wednesday we had a wee trip out to the bowling – we were all responsible citizens and behaved really well.
Shannon had the highest score!!!
Roll the ball Melanie!!!
Go Adam!!!
Three people to chuck a watermelon!!!
What a mess Buddy!!!
Looking at some Aberdeen Landmarks – Mariscal College, Sea Beach, Craigievar Castle and His Majesty’s Theatre.
What a mess BUDDY!!!!
Melanie signing Baby Shark.
Shannon loves listening to Country Christmas Carols.
Decorating our reindeer cup cakes – yummy!!!
Shannon didn’t want to help she wanted to play with her toys and listen to the music.
This week Willow has been at the Library – studying hard and then having a well deserved biscuit and cuppa!!!
We working on our team building skills, leadership and thinking of others whilst preparing for our class assembly next week.
The musical Oak class were performing again this afternoon, everyone successfully played our three songs. They were confident individuals following the music and feeling the rhythm.
Great singing and signing from everyone, lots of smiles from everyone.
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’.
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The Bluebells class are loving their theme “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. During the film, there are lots of scenes with different types of weather.
We had a challenge to find instruments and materials that reminded us of different weather – sunshine, rainy days, windy days and thunder. We enjoyed playing these instruments along to the weather song and had to listen carefully so we knew if it was our turn to play or not.
YES .a. The sun came out this week so we managed to get out and play on the playground equipment, make some bubbles and drawing with chalk on the pavement!!!
We were Confident Individuals and heated up some meatballs and boiled spaghetti – and tried eating it like Lady and the Tramp!
We enjoyed some time playing with different musical instruments.
We continued with our ICE Pack Theme – How Do I Feel? And read the story of Hugless Douglass, and then watched some Inside Out, played with the sensory material and made a new feelings poster for our room.
The Transition boys enjoyed an afternoon of music. They were Effective Contributors by using I-pads, shakers and bells to keep in time to the beat.
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The Bluebells class have enjoyed music sessions with Mrs Skinner. We particularly enjoy the bean bag rock where we have to shake the bean bag on different parts of the body.
We also like playing the “start and stop” song with the big drum.
The Transition Boys were all Successful Learners when they starting learning to play the song Hallelujah. First they all listened to the song. Then they had a go playing the song following the music on the board.
This week for our Australian topic work we explored didgeridoo sounds. We made our own didgeridoo and enjoyed making a lot of noise. We were confident individuals in deciding our creative colourful design for our didgeridoo.
During Music we used sticks to work on our timing and rhythm to some Australian sounds, Kenny the Kangaroo and Kookaburra songs. They both had different speeds and the boys explored and demonstrated this well.
