Willowbank School, Kilmarnock*Effective Contributors *Successful Learners
We quickly learnt that a single strand of spaghetti is very weak and breaks easily. However, if you place them closely packed together they form a strong bond. They are stronger bundled together horizontally rather than vertically.
Two of the Transition boys were Successful Learners this week when they were challenged with numeracy language. They had to follow cue cards describing where to place balloons. The boys did very well and had great fun whilst completing their work. Well done!
There was a lot of great work on ILP targets this week. Topics were wide and varied but the common theme was excellent effort and progress. Well done everyone you are all Successful Learners!
Communication
Number formation and understanding
Communication with other adults
High frequency word recognition.
Working successfully in groups including some numeracy targets
Matching money
Understanding different uses of non-fiction books
Following directions
Finding out what is on in Kilmarnock
Recognising time
Tying shoelaces
Movement
Matching time
Working in pairs with movement skills
Time bingo!
The Transition class had some more sweets to sort into groups this week. They were Successful Learners when they made rows of sweets to compare numbers. We discovered that the split of sweets in a Heroes packet is fairly even. As usual, the sweets that no-one likes were present in the highest number (toffee eclairs – yuck!), and there was one solitary Twirl.
*Successful Learners* *Responsible Citizens*
We’ve had a busy week in the Sungazers class! We learned about Road Safety and even learned a rap to remind us how to stay safe when crossing the road. We had some good poses:
We also learned about how to keep ourselves safe on Bonfire Night. To celebrate the 5th November, we made some healthy (and some not so healthy) edible sparklers!
Have a lovely Bonfire Night & weekend everyone!
This week we learned about the history of fireworks and Guy Fawkes during assembly and then enjoyed being successful learners working on our fine motor skills to create some firework artwork.
We were effective contributors when we participated in our music lesson. We were working on our rhythm and playing all together in time to the music.
Confident Individuals/Successful Learners
This afternoon, the Asteroids paid lots of attention to paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. His portraits of people are painted using different fruit and vegetables. They enjoyed finding and naming the different foods used in his paintings. We tried our own fruit and veg portraits on the Promethean board and then we used pictures of ourselves and chose which food we wanted to use for our own facial features.
Don’t they look great?
Confident Individuals/Responsible Citizens/Successful Learners
The Asteroids have been learning about road safety with the help of Super Cat. We had great fun listening to the story, joining in with words and actions of the safety rap, road safety games, sorting out safe and unsafe situations and making our own Stop, Look, Listen and Think signs.
Well done, Asteroids!
The Asteroids were all looking fabulous wearing their costumes this Hallowe’en. We had an astronaut, Beetlejuice, an angel and Cruella and her 3 Dalmatians!!
We have enjoyed some spooky activities. We voted on which eco pumpkin to make and got to work creating that and we made our potions using a red cabbage. Today, we started the day with some skeleton dancing, Hallowe’en corners, swat the spider, we dooked for apples and we made a scary biscuit monster this afternoon to have with our snack.
Happy Hallowe’en everyone!
We have been successful learners working on our SQA Numeracy Unit, counting whole numbers while enjoying a game of BINGO!!!
HOUSE!!!!
In our SQA Food Preparation – Baking Unit we are exploring the ingredients through sensory play, sieving the flour, using our fine motor skills to look for the small spiders, mice and pumpkins, and exercising our hands.
…well that isn’t a small SPIDER!!!!
“5 little pumpkins”
In Literacy we are working on the letter D, we painted baking trays….
..then pressed our pictures on to them.
Press down with your swatter!
D for Dinosaur
Pumpkin Counting
We continue to work on our SQA Communication Unit matching the characters with their colours.
I lovely morning of Indian Dance with Karen.
Howie was turned into a Dragon!!!
And Logan was a Deer!!!
Making Haunted Houses in Art.
Our IDL Work continues ‘Don’t Waste your Food’
A word from the Vice Eco Captain “Don’t buy more than you need”
Working on our re-use symbol.
Ready for our Halloween Spooky Snack and some Halloween photos – we were too busy having fun!!
Have a Spooky Halloween!!
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