Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition boys are Successful Learners every day when they take part in their ten minute challenges. The challenges change but are linked to literacy and numeracy targets. The boys were working on 24hr clocks, choosing words, money, sequencing, months and seasons and reading this week.
This week we have been successful learners and working hard on developing our numeracy skills.
We used the fitness balls to help understanding of directional movement, forward and backwards. We also all sat in a circle with the balls and used the drumsticks. We were counting and listening to directional movement, working on right and left.
We were taking part in coin work, before we went on our first class outing into town.
Today we combined our numeracy with our 50 Things Challenge. We counted our conkers and then played with them, covered them in paint and rolled them in a tray and created some wild art.
Works of Art!!!
Yesterday we explore our school garden and collected. We then used the leaves we collected to create either a hedgehog or an owl. We used glue and stuck them on our picture. We were looking at the many different colours of leaves in the garden when we were collected them trying to get lots of different colours.
This week we have been working very hard on improving our awareness of directional movement.
We explored this by using some blind folds, orienteering tasks and the Bee Bots. We were confident individuals and excited to find out where our clues lead us to. All of our clues involved directional words and counting our steps.
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!!!!
This week we used a lot of skills to complete a supermarket survey within our school. We wanted to find out which supermarket was the most popular.
We used our communication skills to speak and sign in full sentences, we were all confident individuals when entering other classes.
We gathered the results, added up all the numbers and created a bar chart.
The winner of the most used supermarket is…………………………………………
TESCO, with ASDA and MORRISON’s being a close second.
The Beech class have been working hard on their numeracy ILP targets in class. We are focusing on number recognition, ordering numbers, matching numbers to their value and using mathematical language and Gemma has started work on addition! We were very successful learners as we worked hard to achieve our targets.
Some of the transition class were Effective Contributors when they were outside measuring the size of the garden
All transition boys were confident individuals counting their change and adding coins to make £10
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