Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe used active learning in numeracy today to bring direction to life. We had fun moving the cars and the adults in the directions that were called out and shown on the cards.
We were successful learners when given gestural prompts for the given direction.
We chose a partner to play a game with, we were confident individuals when choosing a partner, choosing a game and we played the games with minimal adult support.
Our theme is the Hungry Caterpillar. We were able to identify some fruits and vegetables and use these to complete some art work. We cut up the fruit and vegetables and dipped them in paint and made printing patterns on the paper. We investigated the print in made. Some worked better than others. We really liked the pear shape it made. We used carrots, potatoes, apples and pears.
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.
Our morning group, everyone is confident individuals and sign in, choose a friend then say ‘Good morning’. Great interaction with class friends every day with no prompting.
So this week we were successful learners making homemade pizza. We made no yeast pizza dough and our own fresh tomato sauce.
Everyone was pleased with the results and it tasted delicious, Our pizza dough was made from flour and low fat natural yoghurt.
Our IDL topic book ‘Pizza Day’ explains about all working together to create lovely healthy food, tidying up afterwards and siting together to share the food we all made.
Maths week was enjoyed by all the Transition boys who were Successful Learners by counting and measuring in the sensory garden.
Last week we used lots of different coloured paper to collage the first letter of our name. We used glue to stick the paper inside the lines of our initial. We were all successful learners and completed this with some support. 
The new children in the Sunflowers class have settled in well to their new school. They are enjoying the structure and routine of the day and have been trying new things.
On the first week we just enjoyed exploring our new surroundings and investigating toys in our classroom. We also made some lovely sunflower pictures for our wall.
Last week enjoyed collaging raindrops, clouds and a sun for our class charter. We then added symbols to show the rights we have. We chose the right to feel safe, to be happy, to have clean water, to food and a house.
The Transition boys were Effective Contributors when they were out in the garden. They all made a journey story where they collected objects from the garden and stuck them to their story board. They also took picture of the area where they found their items which they added to their story. The boys also collected a stick from the garden where they learnt bush crafting skill and used a handcraft tool to whittle stick then colour it in.
Patrick was both a Successful Learner and a Confident Individual when he went to collect his award for his winning design in the Scottish Engineering Leaders Award at Strathclyde University along with Mr Nicoll. Patricks design was selected as the winner ahead of thousands of entries. A fantastic achievement. Well done Patrick!!
He had a fantastic ‘Around the World’ Sports day! Everyone had a great day and the sun came out for us! A lot of confident individuals and successful learners, trying their best in all their races!
