Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe 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.
The Transition class were Successful Learners when they worked on their SQA topic. They used character descriptions that they had made to identify characters displayed on the board. The class must have made very good character descriptions because they scored 100% in the identification quiz.
*Successful Learners* *Effective Contributors*
This week we had a look at famous Scottish people, Inventors in particular. We learned about Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the first telephone. To experience different ways that sound travels, we made cup phones and sent messages to each other using them. We had a lot of fun!
We are learning about Scottish Islands for our IDL work this term. We are exploring island life, the type of work done on the island and sorting photos of busy mainland life compared to quieter island life. We have been successful learners when taking part in class discussions.
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!
The Transition class were Successful Learners this week when we discovered more about how different parts of our bodies feel when we do different things. We made lots of noises with our voices and discussed how our voice box felt. We also took part in a lot of stretching and tried to describe how our muscles felt. There were a lot of different, interesting answers. Well done everyone!
Some of the Transition class began learning about photographic routes for their DofE expedition this week. They were Successful Learners when they took some lettered stones out into the Kay Park and placed them for the rest of the class to find next week. They photographed their route and the places the stones are so that the class can easily find them. Watch this space!
We have been working very hard this week on our IDL topic, Brave. Merida and her family stay in a castle and so, we have been exploring castles. We have been learning the names for parts of castles by looking at clips on the board, completing worksheets and we even designed and made our own cardboard box castle so we could decorate and label it.
Super work, Asteroids!
As part of our Brave theme, we have been looking at castles this week. We have enjoyed looking at castles on the board and finding out where there are castles in Scotland, Do you know there are over 1000 castles in Scotland?
We made our very own castle, using pictures to help our design. We chose which castle to try and copy and which box to use. We also decided which colours and materials to use to decorate it.
We were all very happy with the way it turned out!
This week we have been focusing on taking turns and playing games. We have used games from the cupboard and enjoyed exploring them and then with support from staff playing them together.
We played animal dominoes and had to find the same animal to put down next. A class favourite was “Wally the washer”. Each person had a washing line and had to push the button on the washing machine to see what items fell out. We were confident individuals pushing the button which opened the machine door. We then had to put their coloured clothes onto our washing line. We had to wait a long time as each person had a turn. We all waited really well. It was a fun afternoon.
