Willowbank School, KilmarnockAfter morning group and snack we decided we should all go out and have some fun in the snow before starting our numeracy work! It was a lovely morning, outside and having fun in the snow!
Sean and Anthony loved being on the sledge and being pulled fast through the snow. Others preferred just walking in the snow and throwing the snow up into the air and watching it float down.
Cameron has had his eyes on Mrs Boyle’s wellies since yesterday morning. He enjoyed wearing them.
The Oak boys enjoyed dancing at our Ceilidh on Friday afternoon with all their friends. A good time had by all! We were all effective contributors when it came to our Scottish dancing! Then confident individuals when it came to the freestyle dancing.
We learned about clean water today and how lucky we are to have easy access to clean drinking water. The boys all made a choice of which glass of water they would like to drink, they all chose the clean water…..apart from Sean he reached for the dirty water and tried to have a drink!
We had a discussion about what would happen if we let Sean drink the dirty water and the effects it would have on our body.
All boys were successful learners, very engaged and attentive, we then watched a water walk video. One girl had to walk 8 miles every day to get dirty drinking water. As a class we measured how many steps it would take us to get a glass of clean drinking water. We created a graph to compare our steps to the girl in the video.
We also experienced walking ten steps with a bucket on our head. Some boys clearly did not like but others told us they liked the weight on their head.
We have been working hard learning our Scottish dances for our Burns Supper. All boys have really enjoyed the dancing this week, everyone has been an effective contributor to make all the dances a success.
We also made the table decorations for the Burns supper, paper roses and thistles.
Jack and Blake have been learning the words and signs for the Selkirk Grace, they have been confident individuals performing in front of their class peers
The boys had fun at the sensory Burns assembly thank you Bluebells and Sungazers.
We were looking at our Rights Respecting Article 15 – I have the right to choose my friend and be included. The boys choosing their closest friend in the class. Sean was Mr popular the majority of the boys chose him as their friend.
This is my favourite photo of the term!
The boys are all doing fantastic in their Fun with Food group, everyone is a happy and willing to try the food each week even if they know it is a food they do not like. Their confidence and curiosity has grown and I am very pleased with them all.
This lesson involved making porridge and then making chocolate porridge. They were all confident individuals and Anthony added a bit too much when it came to the coco powder then decided to give it a taste! Which is what the session is all about building confidence to want to taste new foods and find out what it is like!
The boys have enjoyed learning to play new songs on different instruments. Whilst making our new year targets all the boys made it very clear which instrument they wanted to concentrate on and improve their performance.
They are effective contributors when playing their instrument along to one of our tunes.
This week in class we did some café role play during our maths work. We shared the menu with a friend and chose something to eat and drink. We then had to look at the price and hand over the correct coins. We also worked on our communication skills and had a practice of using our words supported with signs to make our order.
It was a lovely sunny fresh morning to walk to the Coffee Trader and each boy was confident individuals and successful learners at placing their order and choosing the correct coins.
This week we have been working hard on signing our Scottish poem ‘Cuddle Doon’. They were all very successful and listening and following the signs.
The Oak class have been learning about Georges Seurat who was a neo-impressionist painter famous for using dots in his art work. This is known as pointillism. The children recreated these beautiful butterfly paintings based on the technique.
Excellent hard work and positive behaviour in the art room from these successful learners!
A successful first week back to school, everyone has enjoyed getting back into our hard work activities. We started the week by setting our New Year goals for 2019. The boys were confident individuals in selecting their specific goals.
We played some time telling games with our friends and had fun whilst working hard.
Jack worked very hard this week working on his writing and listening skills.
All the boys created a Christmas holiday storyboard and shared it with their friends. We were successful learners and confident individuals to share what Santa brought us, what we had for Christmas dinner, who we had dinner with and any other activities we took part in over the holidays.
We have had a lot of fun activities over the month of December. Visit from reindeers, Santa, trip to the cinema to see Incredibles 2, lots of arts and crafts. Then our big performance in the Christmas show- ‘The Band’. All the boys were confident individuals and successful learners, working so hard to learning their pieces of music for their Jingle Bell performance. Very proud of all the boys!
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