Willowbank School, KilmarnockConfident Individuals Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams have had a great week celebrating Sports Day and enjoying playing outside with friends. They have enjoyed investigating and exploring some new equipment too. Take a look at our fabulous photos!
This week we enjoyed the opening of our Oak Tree Cafe (within class) as part of our class Enterprise. Everyone had to choose lollipop sticks to reveal their role within the cafe. We had some customers, front of house, waiter, dish washer and cashier.
We all were effective contributors to make the cafe successful, we will change the roles and continue to develop or independence within a cafe setting.
Our IDL work this term is based on Beauty and the Beast. We have been working hard on identifying personality qualities in our self and our friends.
We have been discussing the important people in our life and who is around us that care and provide us with helps.
Everyone took part in lessons with confidence and were effective contributors sharing this information with their friends.
As a class we enjoy looking through our photos and remembering the activities that we have taken part in. We had great team work between two pupils, who worked together to sort all our class photos for the full class.
We cut out the pictures of the story and put them in order to re tell the story. Everyone’s story had a slight variation, but everyone’s made sense.
Fine Motor Skills this morning, colour sorting and threading buttons…..
…..and wearable!!
IDL Art making Apples for Snow White.
See Art is fun!
So what’s the news??
….something funny!!!
Great sitting skills.
Great signing while enjoying Morning Group.
Come Boyle lets get ‘MOVEing’ and dance the Tarantella!!!
IDL Numeracy, identifying shapes and making some dwarfs…..
….dogs and houses – well done!!!
Aren’t our apples cool!!!
Sensory Cookery, working with pastry, sugar, cinnamon and apples.
Kneading and gripping.
WOW!!!!
Musical fun!!!
Sports Day Ready!!!
IDL Pop Art – using the Dabbers and Scented Pens.
Fantastic Sitting.
Looking at the Weather in Social Studies and Science – making a rain storm!!
….waiting!!!
Are you sure you read the instructions right Wilson???
Not as dramatic as we expected – oh well!
Sensory Play – good use of the Shaving Foam!
Art, spoons and messy play – what could be better!!!
Getting our MOVE on!!! Marching to the Grand Ole Duke of York!!
Sensory Play using cereals and plastic fruits…
…and using our fine motor skills to make feeders for the birds!!!
Have a FAB weekend everyone!!!!
Hope the sun shines!!
The Beech class have been learning all about looking after ourselves and how to keep our body clean and healthy. This wee we looked at how to keep our face clean and healthy by trying out different skin care products and routines! We found it super relaxing and enjoyed the different smells and textures of the products. We were very responsible citizens by asking sensible questions and being gentle with our manikins.
We had great fun this week during topic work designing and building our own Moana boat! We looked at Moana’s boat in the film and had a think about what it materials it was made of and what shape it is. We conducted a bit of an experiment to see if the shape of the boat affected how well it could float. We discovered that the boat with a larger base was able to carry the most weight! We were very successful learners by making our hypothesis and taking turns to count out the number of weights per boat and then deciding which boat was the best.
We have been confident individuals this week and took part in our annual Sports Day!
We were effective contributors and cheered for our peers when acting as an audience.
We had super dancing in our warm up and ran our fastest during both races.
The boys in the Bluebells were Confident Individuals when participating in sports day activities. We sat and waited till all the infant classes came out and then did a warm up with Mrs Feeney, we were loving the music. We were all set and raring to go … Flat race first …. ON YOUR MARKS GET SET GOOOO !!! We all ran as fast as we could and there were stickers for 1st , 2nd and 3rd place . We were Responsible citizens and went back and sat and cheered on the other classes. Then it was time for our novelty race, some of the boys managed to complete the race with no staff support . We are very proud of everyone and they are all winners to us . A well earned snack on our new picnic bench after the races.
Watch the blog for action photos from the day being posted by the PE department.
Effective Contributors
The Sunflower’s class have been practicing following instructions and sharing space as they actively take part in our parachute games. Each child was able to hold and move the parachute to create a breeze together . They have also enjoyed moving balls and objects on top of the parachute and launching them into the air during our counting songs. Each child was able to take turns during our passing activities. Lying underneath the parachute was very relaxing too!
