Willowbank School, KilmarnockOur PE group enjoying getting active first thing on a Monday morning, We are successful learners when take part in individual and partner dances. Then we go to the fitness suite and take part in more exercise. A busy fun and active Monday morning.
This week in our Makaton group were successful learners learning the signs for the animals in the Chinese New Year calendar. We were finding out what animal we were and confidently signing them too. We also did some colouring of the different animals.
The boys were successful learners and responsible citizens this morning. As part of health and well-being we are looking at caring for others. Today we got the babies out for a bath. The boys were very careful and cleaned and dressed the babies ready to be returned to the conservatory.
We made a variation of Pigs using paper and milk cartons. This year it is the year of the PIG for Chinese New Year.
We have been confident individuals when carrying out our jobs within the class. Jack was excellent at using full sentences when asking is his friends what they would like for their lunch.
Patrick came to pay us a visit at snack time, I think he could smell the toast. Anthony cleaned the table after snack, whilst Jack washed the dishes and Blake dried them. Very effective contributors working together to tidy up after snack times.
We created our own clocks to help us understand how to tell the time, using analogue and digital formats.
The Oak boy band are still working hard and being successful leaners when learning new songs to play on the keyboard and their other chosen instruments.
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.
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.
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!
The Sunflowers Class enjoyed an outing to Eglinton Park. We went for a walk and looked at the different trees and plants., we also looked at the new Remembrance garden. We enjoyed splashing in the puddles with our wellington boots.
We loved playing in the park, taking turns going down the slide and bouncing on the trampoline and even better the rain stayed off!
This week we got an invitation to the Willowbank School Café. The older boys and girls made our snacks, served our food and took our money. We all sat at the table and looked at the menu. We all chose something to eat. It was very yummy! Even the ladies had a special treat of mint aero slice. It was delicious. Jay even sat next to a special visitor, PC Scott was in the school and came to the café too.
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