Willowbank School, KilmarnockThis week we are still continuing with our Australian Theme and made Aussie Pizza – which was lovely. We looked at the animals in our story and made there noises – squawks, hisses and howls.
For numeracy we have been working on our money skills and shape recognition. And played Snakes and Ladders!!
The Transition boys numeracy lesson was outside this week where they had to find different ways to count to ten. First they looked around the gardens and collected ten pinecones, they then split then into two groups so the total was ten. The boys discovered that there were many ways to make a total of ten. They showed that they where all Confident Individuals and Successful Learners
This week in numeracy we were working on our coin recognition and playing Deal or No Deal. Everyone was successful learners when identifying the coins and then we ordered them from lowest value to highest value.
With the good weather this week the Transition boys got out into the garden and applied their numeracy skills. The garden needed a tidy and the boys were Effective Contributors collecting the tires and arranging them in pairs. The used their knowledge of the two times table to count the total number of tires. Later in the week our peas needed some support so the boys applied their measuring skills to cut and create a wire support.
As part of Earth day we have taken part in activities all week that have been linked to looking after our Earth.
We used no electricity when taking part in our cooking lesson, we walked into town rather than using transport and we tidied up our garden patch.
We all were effective contributors when making our no bake truffles, we all had an important role to play in the process.
We worked hard on learning how to tell the time working on our ILP targets.
We walked into town with the Transition class, we went to the shops to buy colourful items for our garden patch to help brighten it up. We are yet to be successful in growing any plants, so we are brighten up it up in other ways.
The Stars Class had a week full of Easter activities. We made, and ate!, Easter egg shaped pizza’s, decorated eggs for rolling, created an Easter card and Jelly Bean Bunnies and made chocolate nests to send home. We met spring lambs and explored the different ways people celebrate Easter.
We mixed together melted chocolate and cornflakes to create yummy Easter nests complete with a chicken and eggs. We took one home to share with our families.
The Transition boys were Successful Learners this week during their gardening time. We were excited to see that the seeds planted before the Easter Holidays had germinated. The class used their numeracy skills to divide the plants up evenly to be planted outside. Everything was planted out neatly and we look forward to watching our vegetables grow.
We changed things up a bit in the Transition class this week for Numeracy by planting some seeds to grow different vegetables. All the boys were Confident Individuals when asked to count out a certain amount of seeds to plant in the pots. The boys did an excellent job and all cant wait to taste the freshly frown vegetables later in the year.
The Stars class enjoyed World Down’s Syndrome Day activities, especially our sock box. We also tackled the Big Pedal assault course with gusto! Music Therapy was great too! It was a fun week for all.
