Willowbank School, KilmarnockThere was lots of great numeracy skills on show this week when the class worked hard on their pictogram SQA work. The class were Successful Learners when they created pictograms from data collected in class choosing favorite colours and matching eye colour. They also interpreted ready-made pictograms by translating the graph into building blocks before looking at the highest and smallest and relating that to the favorite and least favorite. Some very hard work completed – well done!
This successful learner has been using his numeracy skills to count the magnetic…
…then used then to successfully help weigh out our cake ingredients.
Successful Learning – sieving and mixing for SQA Baking
Now using our numeracy skills to count the paper cases.
Think they are ready for the oven!!
We have been listening to lots of Scottish music and stories this week – but the Highland Dancing was a real favourite for this young lady. And on the 25th we enjoyed the Transition Classes Virtual Burns Supper.
SQA Communication we made 5 sensory bottles, one for each of the Inside Out Characters, using a funnel to put in small coloured beads, glitter and sequin.
We also managed a little bit of sensory play too.
Making Kilts for Burns Day, counting colours as we go!
Our kilts display.
We are continuing to work on some Scottish Animals, this week Badgers…we will show them next week they may take a few days for the glue to dry!!!!
Have a great weekend everyone!!
*Confident Individuals *Effective Contributors
We enjoyed a Scottish activities morning in class where we recited Robert Burn’s Selkirk Grace before our snack of pancakes. We used rhythm sticks to tap out the rhythm of ‘Donald Whaur’s Yer Troosers’ and danced the St Bernard’s Waltz. We played boccia with tatties, instead of balls, and had fun welly whanging where we hurled wellies at a target. We played the Hokey Cokey my putting ‘oor richt airm in’ and sang Scottish children’s songs.
We played hopscotch in the garden and created a Robert Burns silhouette picture.
The second half of the Transition class had their chance to work on photo route cards this week. They were Successful Learners following last weeks’ photo route to find marked stones. They then set their own trail, learning how to make a route for others to follow. This is a skill that they will put in to practice when they compete their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition.
At our Drake Music time this week the Transition class were Confident Individuals. After our warm up things started to get more complicated! The class listened well and followed hand signals to make different sounds, some high and some low. They then followed colours and shapes to contribute to a class performance of Auld Lang Syne. We are all looking forward to next week!
Successful Learner using the AAC Device to tell us how he is feeling at Morning Group.
Fun making Confetti Pictures.
Our lovely Scottish Art Display, that we have been working on for our IDL.
Confident Individuals working with the stickle bricks in Numeracy.
Using the light box and gel numbers in Numeracy.
SQA Baking working on our mixing skills to make Krispy Cakes.
Touching all the different ingredients…snap, crackle and pop!!
SQA Communication – we started watching the film Inside Out, we have also looked at ICE Pack ‘How I feel?’ and talked about what gave us JOY and what made us SAD.
Painting character plates.
For our 50 Things we painted with things we found in the garden – very cool!!
This week in literacy our letter was ‘I’ words starting with I are hard to find BUT we managed!! And made some lovely ice-cream pictures.
Have a great weekend!!
This week we went on a treasure hunt looking for theme pictures. Our theme is Katie Morag and we were looking for pictures of the characters and places from the stories. We went to the garden to see if we could find any. We were confident individuals exploring the garden to find all the pictures that were hidden. Some of the pictures were big and some were small making them tricky to find. We had to look high and low to find all the pictures around the garden.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS *
John was enjoying experiencing some animal related inset puzzles today. He loved touching and feeling the different textures when he lifted the animal pieces.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Daisies class enjoyed having some competitive play with a dice rolling build a house game. We took turns rolling the dice and cutting out the numbered parts of the house. Then we had to use our shapes to try and build a house.
Logan and Riley were our winners today!
The Transition class continued their excellent progress through their ILP targets. They were all Successful Learners working on writing skills, time telling, literacy with technology, planning for future events, numeracy language and pattern matching. It was a real hive of industry this week!
