Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe boys and girls in the signing group and learning new signs and developing their signing skills weekly. We focus on hand shape and placement of the sign and the boys and girls are confident individuals trying all the signs throughout the afternoon. This week we focussed on the colours.
Please click the link to see the super video of us sharing our knowledge of colours.
Today we were developing our spreading skills making pizza. We spread the sauce on the base and then grated cheese and sprinkled the cheese on top. The boys were confident individuals using the cheese grater and listened to all the instructions given by staff. The boys were able to choose pepperoni if they wanted it too.
The boys combined outdoor learning with National Digital Learning week. #NDLW19 We went on a colour hunt in our sensory garden and used the iPad to take pictures of the colours we found. When we returned to the classroom we put the pictures taken on the SMARTboard so all our friends could see the pictures we had taken.
The Sunflower boys have been very busy this week using a range of different digital technologies. We use our SMARTboard daily for morning group and also for lots of different maths activities. We use a number of different programme to support our maths learning “Counting songs” regularly and this week we used the “Number run”. The boys really enjoyed the sound effect of the Number run programme. We also used the Beebots and pressed the buttons to make the Beebot move from one place on the mat to another. We used to iPads to play games and got to experience the story headphones to listen to different sounds.
Today is National Numeracy Day so instead of doing literacy steaming this afternoon we did numeracy tasks with our groups. We were successful learners and effective contributors throughout the afternoon. We signed the numbers to ten. We all tried really hard despite the hand shapes being rather tricky. We then completed numeracy rotations we had to find numbers on the tuft tray and used a paintbrush to make them disappear. We had to count the number of flowers and then had to build a tower with the same number of blocks. 
Today we raised money for cash for kids and came to school dressed up as a superhero or a princess some of the boys and girls even came in their pjs.
This morning we had a special visitor Shirley Husband who wrote the Harris McCoo books she read us the stories and even brought Harris to visit us. We listened well to the stories and danced with Harris. He then opened our new soft play and we were able to have a go. We really enjoyed the ball pool and the new plane soft play to rock on.
In the afternoon we made our own crowns and shields and the Daisies and Buebells joined us to have a fabby superhero afternoon. We had soft play, a dvd, dancing and some craft. We mixed with different friends and had a SUPER afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!
We loved being invited to the Sunflowers French themed café this week. We were effective contributors and tried lots of new foods. We also explored enjoying some French music and dancing.
On Monday we visited the library again and the lovely ladies read us a sensory story. We chose our books to bring back to school and they even gave us books that we could take home and keep.
On Thursday we made French toast in the cookery room. We whisked the eggs and milk together and the ladies dipped the bread in and put it in the frying pan. We even rolled the bread flat and added in some cheese. The boys were all effective contributors during this time and patiently waited their turn. While we were waiting for the French toast to cook we looked at some pictures of different foods and decided which ones we should eat less of to be healthy.
The Sunflowers have been busy using art resources to create work inspired by a famous artist. This week the children have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh in relation to their topic about France. Lots of emerging scissor skills were evident and this is something we will be practising more as the term continues.
Super successful learners. Well done boys!
We missed Earth Day on Monday due to a holiday so today we did some activities today. We were responsible citizens thinking about the earth. The lights were off all day and we made lovely Earth sensory pictures using shaving foam and food colouring. We mixed up the food colouring with the shaving foam and placed paper on top to create a picture. We really liked the texture of the shaving foam.
We went to the sensory room and didn’t turn any of the lights on. We had glow sticks and torches and read a story in the dark using the light from those. We then enjoyed just sitting and rolling around in the room in the dark. For the last 2 minutes we turned on the bubble tube to make it more colourful and relaxing.
