Willowbank School, KilmarnockOn our outing this week we went shopping to choose something for our snack, everyone had £1.50 and could choose whatever they wanted as long as it was within their budget.
This is part of our SQA numeracy unit which is handling money.
Everyone had to read the price tag and check they had the correct amount. Some people chose to spend all their money and others chose cheaper items and received change.
We were all responsible citizens and were very aware of road safety.
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.
We enjoyed listening to a firework story and then we made sparkly firework pictures. We were working on our fine motor skills to complete this task.
Café Latte has opened again for the year so we were busy making cupcakes for the café on Friday. Everyone was effective contributors and enjoying making and of course doing a quick quality control taste test once they were ready.
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.
Happy Halloween! We had our Halloween party this morning, lots of games and dancing. Some people became very competitive!
Then our special visitors this afternoon, Singing Hands! Confident individuals all round today and everyone fully engaged in all the activities. They all also coped very well with a day that was completely out of our usual daily routine.
This week we have enjoyed creating a variety of different designs on our pumpkins. We have a Spiderman, Harry Potter, Scary teeth & hedgehogs with jaggy spikes.
We all were effective contributors when making our skeleton biscuits in our cooking lesson.
We are very confident individuals when bouncing on the trampoline, we demonstrated great listening and core strength and control. Looking at our smiles it is clear we all had great fun, whilst working on skills and improving our fitness.
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 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 Oak boys were effective contributors when they worked together to make a Harry Potter mosaic piece of artwork. We watched a DVD clip and then discussed how Harry looked before making him out of paper.
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