Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition boys were Successful Learners this week when they used their numeracy skills in a cafe in the classroom. The boys had to sort their money, pick their items for lunch, calculate the total and hand over the correct money. Unfortunately all the food was plastic so we missed out on a mega feast!
We enjoyed a lot of art this week, we have our class beach party next week. We have been getting decorations made to have the class ready for our beach party.
We were successful learners during our literacy listening work, we turned numbers into pictures. We were very proud of our work!
Power of Learning Outdoors – POLO – Successful Learning in the Garden – look at our lettuce and onions!!!
Signing Practice – Baby Shark
We anticipated that Friday’s weather might not be so good – so we carried out some of our POLO Activities earlier in the week
Sunshine!!!
We were working on our 50 Things too and instead of waiting for rain we created some!!!
SPLASH!!!!
Are you ready???
Water Balloons – throw them!!!
Literacy outside too!!
What a funny story!!!
Ready for some bubble wrap Art
What a bunch of Confident Individuals in Art!!!
What a Responsible Citizen.
Successful Learners Numeracy and MOVE
Knock it down…knock it down…..
….Well done!!!!!!
Sensory Cereal Play – using our fine motor skills looking for small candy eyeballs!!!
Crunch and pop!!! Different textures and feels.
Football Fun!!!
GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Squishy Painting
Using the Bubble Machine too!!
Great Copying.
Creating ’cause and effect’ with the switches.
Great fun in Numeracy playing Snakes and Ladders.
Have a great relaxing weekend everyone!!!!
As it was POLO ( Power off Learn Outdoors) day in school, we took part in many Outdoor Learning Activities.
We placed different objects in the water tray to see if they would float or sink!
We had fun drawing shapes and writing names with chalk! 
We worked together to build some dens, walls and towers! 
*Confident Individuals *Effective Contributors *Successful Learners
Pupils enjoyed making chalk marks in the garden and copying their names.
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We cut the bottom off a used plastic lemonade bottle and lined it with paper. We planted a sweet pea plant through the hole then filled the bottle with compost. Afterwards we hung it in the garden. We must remember to keep it well watered.
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Using a cardboard tube, newspaper strips and diluted PVA glue we created our very own dino bone.
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We created a sand jar in class to explain how fossils were made.
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Pupils pressed the sequencer switch to find out what each type of animal character in Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ate.
When the sun shone this week the Transition class were Successful Learners investigation static electricity and magnets. They charged some rulers to make paper cutting dance then charged up balloons when made the paper dance some more. It was also a hair raising experience when we charged the balloons on our heads. The boys then investigated what a magnet would stick to. They discovered it was metals which included the gate, railing and a plant holder. Great detective work boys!
