Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Oak boys enjoyed dancing at our Ceilidh on Friday afternoon with all their friends. A good time had by all! We were all effective contributors when it came to our Scottish dancing! Then confident individuals when it came to the freestyle dancing.
SQA Music group today had a busy afternoon! We had a mini talent show with two very different performances. Gemma and Oliver were confident individuals to stand up in front of their peers and perform. We had a singing performance of ‘Never Enough’ and a dance performance to ‘Grease Lightening’. I will let you work who did which performance.
We all played instruments to be effective contributors to work as a group and produce music to the song ”Happy’.
We also explored sound through the sound beam and switches. Jacob, Jessica and Lyle were Gemma’s backing group. They explored and created the sound effects whilst Gemma sang her song.
It was a braw day on Friday when all the boys attended our schools Burns’ Supper. All boys in the Transition class were Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals on the build up to and during the Burns’ Supper.
As you can see a lot of happy faces and full tummies. And by the end of the ceilidh the boys were all puggled and had to have a seat.
As it was Robert Burn’s birthday we enjoyed a morning of Scottish activities. We dressed up in kilts and tartan sashes and enjoyed shortbread at snack time followed by Scottish country dancing. We danced to the St Bernard’s Waltz and Canadian Barn Dance before doing the Hokey Cokey in Scots. We played tattie boccia then finished by doing ‘turns’. We did ‘Buy Me a Banana’, ‘Wee Willie Winkie, ‘My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean’, ‘Three Craws’ and ‘Coulter’s Candy’. Lunch was haggis, neeps and tatties. We all had a grand time.
The Bluebells enjoyed their Scottish Sensory Assembly this week. They were very responsible as they moved around the various stations to take part in the activities. They all really liked throwing wellies for the welly wanging competition. They loved dressing up in kilts and wearing hats. They also painted part of Nessie and painted kilts with paint rollers. The boys got to taste some tablet, shortbread and tattie scones.
The Transition class became the head chefs in the school for a day when they helped Jan in the kitchen to make the soup for the Burns’ supper on Friday. They were all Responsible Citizens when working in the cookery room. Everyone thought it would only be fair that the boys got to taste the soup first so they all buttered some bread and had bowl each. Dee-lish.
All the boys in Transition were Successful Learners at learning Makaton to “Sair Finger”. They all participated really well and really enjoyed the poem having a good laugh at Mr Nicolls’ sair finger.
A busy week at School. We had fun at the Sensory Burns Assembly – painting part of the Loch Ness Monster, tasting different Scottish foods, dressing up and listening to a story all about a Haggis. Carried out lots of Numeracy tasks, worked on our Scottish Poem – The Sair Finger. We have played in the Sensory Room this week, made beautiful textured thistles in Art and made and enjoyed Leek and Potato Soup. We had some chill out time too and enjoyed our Tac Pac session!!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Moonbeams class recently looked at the salt content in a range of foods. We looked a pretzels, meatballs, crisps, chips and much more. We had to carefully measure how much salt you would find in each food and order them from least amount of salt to most amount.
We all managed to order these according to the numbers on the zip loc bags.
We learned about clean water today and how lucky we are to have easy access to clean drinking water. The boys all made a choice of which glass of water they would like to drink, they all chose the clean water…..apart from Sean he reached for the dirty water and tried to have a drink!
We had a discussion about what would happen if we let Sean drink the dirty water and the effects it would have on our body.
All boys were successful learners, very engaged and attentive, we then watched a water walk video. One girl had to walk 8 miles every day to get dirty drinking water. As a class we measured how many steps it would take us to get a glass of clean drinking water. We created a graph to compare our steps to the girl in the video.
We also experienced walking ten steps with a bucket on our head. Some boys clearly did not like but others told us they liked the weight on their head.
