Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Stars class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week as we began our Christmas activities. We created a Christmas card, reindeer hand print pictures and wrote a letter to Santa! We enjoyed a Christmas story role play and are having daily visits from a pesky elf!
The boys in Transition were Successful Learners as they worked through their numeracy and literacy tasks. Some tasks were group activities and the boys were Effective Contributors. The literacy and numeracy tasks are beginning to take on a Christmas flavour.
Helping Santa deliver presents numeracy task
Reading and answering about the history of Christmas
The Beech class enjoyed celebrating St. Andrew’s Day this year by making colourful tartan kilts! The class were successful learners as they learned all about the story of St. Andrew and celebrated Scottish culture by making their own tartan.
This week we are learning about “d”. The boys all love ducks and were so excited to colour and stick feathers to create their own duck. We also used lots of shapes of brown to create a dog. The boys also used purple triangles to create dinosaurs. The boys are confident individuals in copying the action and saying the sounds. They are then successful learners by following instructions and creating their own animals.
Monday was St Andrew’s Day. The boys listened to a story and looked at pictures on the board. We then made a Scotland flag using tissue paper and cotton wool. We also used cars to create a lovely tartan picture. They were confident individuals dipping the wheels in the paint and rolling them across the paper to create their very own tartan design. We also used crayons to follow the lines on on our pencil control worksheets. We listened to some Scottish music which we were not keen on.
To celebrate St Andrew’s Day, in the Oak class we have made some thistles and weaved some tartan. We were successful learners and worked on our fine motor skills. We all actively participated in all the activities, we were creative and used different shapes to create our own thistle.
We prepared the Christmas decorations for the school and also made some Grinch tree baubles to match the Christmas cards we made. The Oak class will not let the COVID Grinch steal Christmas this year.
Although St. Andrew’s Day is not until Monday the Stars Class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week by learning about him. We made St. Andrew’s flags, enjoyed Scottish sensory handling and did some Scottish dancing. We used broccoli florets to print thistle pictures and enjoyed a Scottish taste and try. Singing Hands visited virtually today. We had great fun!
This week we did lots activities related to the sound “m”. On Monday we were successful learners and made a mouse we added whiskers, a nose and ears to a big brown M. On Thursday we made our own mirror with tin foil and added lots of jewels to make it sparkle. We also explored marshmallows and used spaghetti to make structured and different objects. We stuck eight pieces of spaghetti into one marshmallow to make an octopus. In the afternoon we used different materials to make a green M into a monster. The boys really enjoyed choosing their materials and every monster was different. We also read a story about a silly monster and his friends – everyone listened really well looking at the pictures of the different monsters.
We had great listening this week in cookery to choose different vegetables to make a rainbow pasta salad.
We were successful learners and learned about chopping safely. We added our chopped ingredients to a bowl, taking turns with our peers and had super stirring.
Well it was the other half of the Class on Monday that got out for some Outdoor Education – the rain stayed away but it was a bit breezy …
…off on a Autumn Hunt!!
Tuesday saw some snow!!!
Well it looked like snow, sensory play and tolerating a different texture and feel on our hands – and tolerating an apron the whole time – Well Done!!!!
We didn’t eat it – but it was edible!!
And now for the clean up!!
Logan go and get your own swatter and leave mine alone!
MOVE, Music and FUN!!!
Snowflake Art – using my multi-purpose swatter!
It is a Masterpiece!
Nothing gets you out of doing hard work in the Pine Room.
Creating Art with paint and Cotton Buds – sprinkle some glitter Jardine would be proud!!!
Bubble Art while in my Standing Frame.
Fiona the Physio brought me a Walker – I successfully learned to use it in no time at all, what a confident individual!
WOW!!! Tomorrow we can dance to Baby Shark (Oh no! )
Now this might look as if I am relaxing BUT I am actually working on my exercises.
Working on Global Goal 5 – Gender Equality – looking at the jobs men and women do.
A Pilot or a Builder?
This Walker is FAB!!
A Policeman or a Fire-women.
Parachute Fun!!!
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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