Willowbank School, KilmarnockThroughout our school week we use loads of technology to help us learn. See some of our IT activities this week. We also enjoyed our weekly ‘virtual’ assembly.
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We collected leaves and flowers from the garden and used them to paint dinosaur pictures. We were amazed what good paint brushes they made.
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The Stars class made fabulous dinosaur fossils. We measured ingredients to make salt dough, divided the dough equally among us and imprinted with our favourite dinosaur shapes. After allowing the dough to dry we painted them. Don’t they look good?
Week beginning Monday 17th May
The Sungazers were ‘Confident Individuals’ as they took part in our explosive science activity. They had great fun at our hands-on science session which responded to the children’s natural curiosity. They used simple every day ingredients and made their own volcanoes, developing skills of observation, prediction and team work.
A sneak peek at the week!
The Pine Class have been investigating the use of dark and light colours. Lots of paper tearing was needed to create these fabulous zebra pictures.
Confident individuals! Well done!
The Transition boys are currently exploring Scottish Myths & Legends as part of their in-class topic. This week we discussed Scottish Kelpies and tried a new technique, using a tissue paper overlay, to make these wonderful 2D watercolor creatures.
Successful learners! Excellent work!
The Beech Class created their very own ‘Super Hero Me’. Each pupil decided what their individual superpower would be and the learners worked with staff to design the characters. Lyle can zap lightening bolts!
Confident individuals! Superb!
The Sungazers Class love science and have all participated in various science activities over the term, making lava lamps, volcanoes, sensory snow, and slime. Their favourite experiment is making the cornflour slime as not only is it a good sensory science activity, it’s also good messy fun!
The boys are now able to follow the steps and make their own slime with minimal assistance.
The Sungazers Class have enjoyed exploring different weather types through various science experiments. This week we watched a video all about torandos then had a go at making our own ‘tornados in a jar’ using vinegar, water, food colouring and liquid soap. We even added some sequences to see them get sucked up into our torando. It was great fun!
The Transition class continued studying Peter Pan and all answered their own reading and understanding questions. The boys had different tasks to do and were all Successful Learners. We had two different ways to understand words. We typed some into an online dictionary and read the definition before selecting the correct answers on the quiz and we had help understanding that some characters were ‘looping’ as they flew when loops were drawn on the board. This made it clear for the class.
Some boys sequenced and matched sentences to help the class understand what happened in the chapter and in what order.
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Presently we are unable to access our photographs to blog but we have been very busy in the Stars class.
We planted sunflower seeds in pots for the school meadow. They are growing well and will soon need canes to support them. We also planted sweet pea plants in our garden planter. We’ve built another wigwam for them to climb up.
We continue to enjoy our dinosaurs theme making salt dough fossils and a sediment sand jar to show how fossils were made. We created a mod roc head for our giant dinosaur in class and made dinosaur footprints to compare sizes with our own.
The boys have been working hard on their individual numeracy targets and this week was no different. We traveled around the world again identifying different times in different parts of the world. We had a small shop at the back of the class selling everything from chips to fresh fruit and showering products. One of our boys was setting different challenges and timing everyone how long they take to complete. We also had sorting by size and sorting by different parts of the day. It was a busy classroom indeed.
