Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class continued with some SQA work this week and tried different board games. They tried ‘Happy Families’ and snakes and ladders. Both games took a wee while before a winner was announced. The boys were Effective Contributors and will reflect on their enjoyment next week to add the evidence to their folders.
The Transition boys made sure that they has their say this week when preparing for pupil council. They had to give the class idea for themes and outdoor work. As a class they were Confident Individuals and came up with a few options. As it was election week we put those options to a vote, each boy selected their favourite on the interactive board. We will feed back our answers to the Pupil Council next week.
The Transition boys put in great effort this week with their Literacy work. They were all Succesful Learners. They answered tricky questions on Peter Pan on the interactive board. Keiran helped us understand the word rummage by demonstrating it to the class. Some boys typed in answers and some clicked and dragged to make connections or sequences. The last question was particularly difficult, but with few revisions we managed to get a class score of 100%. Well done boys!
The Transition boys were Effective Contributors this week when they made a class Nessie. They were learning about Scottish myths and legends and using their art skills they mad a long Nessie for our display board. If you want to see her make sure you only look out the corner of your eye, if you try and look directly at her she’ll dive back into the Loch!
Successful Learners and Confident Individuals
Today, the Sunflower’s enjoyed using wooden blocks to create a multi-coloured brick effect using a variety of shapes . Each child was able to choose shapes and dip them in colour of their choice. We even practiced naming the shapes. Afterwards, everyone used our shape finders to look for similar shapes in the garden.
Numeracy, Colour Sorting and Fine Motor Skills, for these successful learners.
Listening to my Friends News.
Science – Gardening Time indoors due to the Scottish Weather – hail stones in MAY!!!
Picking our pots…
Bulbs, stems and flowers.
The life cycle of a Sunflower – putting these cards in the correct order.
MOVE – Lift pants and making friends.
MOVE – Big Stretches!!
Literacy – Character Recognition – Snow White is my favourite.
This week’s Superstar! For great work and concentration in Art.
Sensory Play with Bread Dough – great for stretching our hands out and gripping skills.
I love these Flappers!!
This confident individual is working on her writing skills.
Have a lovely weekend – Hope the SUN shines!!!
Our theme is Goldilocks and the three bears. We were confident individuals and used google maps on the SMARTboard to look for houses. We then chose different parts of a house to create our own house design. Some choose a long brick house and some chose a tall coloured house. We also looked at lots of pictures of different parts of a house such as the roof, windows and doors. We then talked about what we had in our garden and drew a path and some grass . We also looked at different types of houses that people stay in and chose where we would like to stay , the most popular choice in class was a caravan .
* CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Planets class loved playing a movement game today. We used the rules of musical chairs and created an Aladdin theme game of ‘Musical Magic Carpets’ which we all really enjoyed.
Everyone loved joining in and finding a magic carpet to sit on when the music stopped.
Finally, we enjoyed some Bollywood style dancing to end our move and groove session.
Over the past week, the Beech class have achieved both of our outdoor learning targets in line with our current topic.
We went on a rock hunt around the school and then used our artistic talents to paint our rocks in an Aladdin theme!
We also went outside in the sunshine this morning to read a sensory story together! Everyone took part in feeling the props for the story and we were very effective contributors.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Planets class enjoyed looking closely at Princess Jasmine’s clothing and make up. We looked at materials that would be used for her outfits and attempted to make our own jewelled designs on our faces using sticky gems.
Finally, we looked closely at mehndi patterns on hands, followed the pencil control patterns and created our own. We also enjoyed a calming hand massage.
