Willowbank School, KilmarnockResponsible Citizens
The Moonbeams enjoyed a walk to Kay Park today. The Moonbeams were very responsible as they listened carefully and followed instructions to keep them safe. They had great fun watching the ducks and making wishes at the Wishing Tree.
We were effective contributors as we enjoyed participating in Children in Need activities. We created colourful masks, made Pudsey cakes, carefully completed dot to dot pictures, played ‘Pudsey Says’ and handled spotty water beads.
It was an unusual Children In Need day in the Transition class this year. We were unable to join up with our friends in other classes. The boys were still Responsible Citizens and took part in different activities to mark the day. We had a social time at snack time, some Pudsey art was created including a few masks and to end the day we all attempted to learn the Strictly Children In Need dance. The boys outshone the staff at this!
The Transition boys have been working very hard at their Literacy and Numeracy Targets this week. They have all been Successful Learners when working on their individual outcomes. We have had reading and answering questions, using technology to follow a story, sharing objects and working with money to name but a few.
As part of the boys’ SQA class they have had an opportunity to try different sports. This week the boys had the opportunity to try table tennis. They had great fun making a table out of desks and then taking turns to try it for themselves. They were all Successful Learners listening well to instructions and trying their hardest.
The Transition boys showed their maturity this week during Remembrance Day. The boys were all Responsible Citizens and took part in the two minutes silence. Some of the boys had the opportunity to visit the War Memorial Park.
We are at the end of our IDL Topic and our Colour Rainbow – so this week we are blue!
Although this art work is from our Purple Week.
This successful learner has been working on her numeracy skills. That will be 4 million pounds please!!
Ordering money – well done!!
The sunny weather prop creates a lot of laughs.
More ordering – sizes this time.
Concentration here from these successful learners as we clap, count and sign…
…and giggle!!!
This week our Science was all about Colours.
A tray of milk with some food colouring – when you put some washing up liquid on the end of a cotton bud and dip it in colour moves away – it was really cool you could try this at home!!!
Now for the Skittle Rainbow – Shields loved this!
Skittles on a plate then slowly pour on some warm water and wait!!
Amazing!!!
Not about Colour but using a non-permanent marker we drew on some shapes on to the plate added some warm water and watched the shapes move.
Yellow and Blue make…
…Green!!
Outdoor Learning an Autumn Hunt round the Kay Park.
Autumn Leaves.
Fungi
Boyle lets take some of this back to the Pine Room – quick no one is looking!!!
Looking for a 4 leaf clover.
Ready for our new story Blue Penguin and Sensory Play?
Shaving foam and Arctic Animals.
Watch out the Arctic winds are coming in.
I have an apron on!!!
The Eco-Captain making sure we reuse everyday things for our Remembrance Art.
Do you want to Dance?
More juice please Boyle!
Colour sorting and the Color Monster.
Which Monster goes where??
Hola!
Someone preferred the story in Spanish!?!?
Cause and Effect.
Finishing last weeks Recycling craft – a lot of PVA glue was used!!!
Making lots of choices.
Oh Wow!!
Someone is very pleased!
And now for some Children in Need Crafts – Bingo Dabbers!!
Note from the ECO-CAPTAIN Please save you Crisp packets – Mrs Slinger has an important use for them – they are going to be made into blankets for the Homeless ‘Get your Eco On!!’
Happy Children in Need Day 2020!!!
The Transition boys were Effective Contributors when working on their kick rounders skills. The boys worked on the timing of their kicks and used their listening and understanding skills to begin to understand when they should run from base to base to avoid being out.
The Comets have been working hard this term on our Eco goals! We have thought hard about how we can be a more eco friendly class and help our community.
We decided that a litter pick was a great idea! As we weren’t able to go to our local parks, we went round the school and playground looking for any litter that we could find. Everyone was an effective contributor to help keep the school clean!
For our next Eco goal we decided to try and recycle and up-cycle as much as we can! We saw some super cool homemade guitars that we thought we could make from all boxes and toilet roll tubes. Everyone was a successful learner by decorating and putting their guitar together.
Today was Children in Need. Some of us were confident individuals and dressed in spotty Pudsey spotty clothes and others wore our casual clothes. We were confident individuals using our finger to make some spotty patterns for our Pudsey ears.
