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Visit to the Willowbank Café

Today the Sunflowers were invited to the Willowbank café run by some of our secondary pupils as part of their enterprise groups. The children were confident individuals going to the lunch hall at snack time which is very different to our usual routine. They were able to look at the menu and choose what they would like to eat and drink. They all sat really well and waited for their food. We also sang good luck to Miss Campbell who is leaving the Sunflowers today. Good Luck Miss Campbell in your new adventure. The pupils working at the café also did a lovely sing and sign to the music that was playing. It was really good. I think the Sunflowers will be super excited when we get an invitation to go again.  🙂

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Community travel

The Transition boys were Responsible Citizens this week when half of them travelled on the bus checking the bus times and then using their passes when they got on the bus. The rest of the boys walked into town using the crossing and looking for traffic before crossing the road, when they saw the bus pass they waved to their friends. The boys went to the shops where they purchased toiletries then had their snack before returning to school.

   

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Time for a Challenge

The Transition Boys were Successful Learners this week when Mr Nicoll tested them on their 24hour time telling. The boys had to put the correct 24hour time on the 12hour clock with no hints or clues. They boys were all excellent. They completed their challenge with no hesitation!

   

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A Birthday and lots of Numeracy

 

 

 

 

 

In art we have been working on a Loch Ness Monster using lots of different materials with different textures.

Shannon went exploring outside the classroom and visited the Moonbeams!

We have been working well on our Numeracy this week.

Reece has been very successful in her own learning and has also been helping other in the class too.

Shannon enjoyed some floor time and while carrying out some SQA work, ‘Recognising a Character in Fiction’. We have been watching the film ‘Inside Out’ and looking at how each character is different and which one we like best!!

Sensory Water Fun.

Lots of Numeracy!!!

Adam and Melanie exploring the wooden shapes and numbers.

Melanie enjoys learning using the stacking cups.

Adam having a wee rest while in his lift pants.

Happy Birthday Jessica – we enjoyed your cake and treats – Thank you!!!

Sensory Letter play.

Big stretch Melanie!!

SQA Baking Unit – Exploring the ingredients through Sensory Play – this week Flour – made just a tiny mess!!!

Willow went for a wee holiday to Orkney, and she flew back on a tiny wee plane!!

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Effective Contributors at Centrestage

The Sungazers have had a great day in school. They were all effective contributors during our Centrestage session.  They each chose a prop from the bag and joined in with all of the songs.  To fit in with our current Scottish theme we changed the words from our usual ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ song to ‘Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes’!

Parachute games are always a favourite and we enjoyed playing the Peapod game as well as bouncing the ball on the parachute.

    Reece chose ‘Tiny Tim’ to sing about.

  Leo hummed the ‘goodbye’ song independently once the session had finished.

Ryan, Jayden, Jamie and Lewis all enjoyed the rhyme about the cheeky monkeys and the naughty crocodile!

Disco time with sensory lights. Parachute games!

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Welcome back!!

We were all glad to see each other after the holidays – back to some hard work in Numeracy!!

Getting on with our SQA unit – Reece has been working well.

Adam – typical teenager!!

We had a visit from the Clown Doctors – we all loved them – they were so funny.

More numeracy – glitter numbers and using ICT.

Reece helped make the toast for Social Snack on Thursday morning,

For Literacy this week we explored our letters in bread dough and flour – just a wee bit messy!!

Making choices for our SQA Baking unit – What do we like??

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Happy New Year Sungazers! – A Busy First Day Back

The Sungazers have had a busy first day back after the Christmas break.  We enjoyed our session with Centrestage – using the parachute, singing songs and dancing catching the bubbles.

 

                                                                                          

We have also been busy doing lots of number work and made a number line based on the Chinese New Year ‘Great Race’ story.   We then used our number lines to find out what order the animals finished the race in.   We also made Chinese Dragons using a variety of different shapes during maths time.

*Confident Individuals      *Successful Learners      *Effective Contributors

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Oh it is not long till Christmas!!

 

Well not long till Christmas – we are getting very excited in the Pine Room.

Shannon is becoming really confident individual in her lift pants, she enjoyed using the Switch it board and listening to the number songs.

And sitting with her friends for snack.

Melanie was in charge of crushing the biscuits when we made our Truffles.

Mixing – lovely chocolate smell Jessica.

Then rolling in chocolate sprinkles.

Wow!!! They were good enough to eat.

Pick one Adam!!

We made lovely Christmas Stockings, we counted squares of coloured card and then stuck them on the outlined shape, then of course used some glitter!!

Santa surprised us with a visit – and he is a really busy man at this time of the year!!!

Glitter sensory jars – we love glitter in the Pine Room.

Christmas Jumper Day!!!!

Jacob being Responsible Citizen and getting the recycling done!!!

Reece and naughty Buddy!!

What has Willow being doing this week???

Will she really enjoyed a wee night at the cinema watching Frozen 2.

Then played hide and seek in the Union Street Shop Centre Christmas Tree.

Loved her ice-cream from Mackie.

And has made great friends with Esme the kitten.

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Christmas Colouring Conundrum

The Transition boys were Successful Learners this week when they used their numeracy skills to solve a Christmas Puzzle. The boys solved sums in the boxes and matched their answers to the colour key. The result was a Christmas picture. Well done boys!

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Christmas Science

The Transition boys were Successful Learners this week when they used their numeracy skills to complete some Christmas science tasks. The boys looked at snow formation and made some fake snow. They carefully measured the correct mass of ‘snow’ powder then the correct volume of water. Everyone was amazed when the snow fluffed up before their eyes.

In their second task the boys were challenged to create the tallest Christmas Tree using play-doh. The boys had to balance height and width to make sure that it would stand before it was measured. The tallest one (without banned structural support) was 27cm

 

 

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