Willowbank School, KilmarnockSuccessful Learners/Confident Individuals
The Snowdrops are enjoying learning about the story of The 3 Little Pigs.
Last week we were busy with construction and building houses and this week we have been busy exploring inside a house. We have enjoyed looking at and identifying the different rooms in a dolls house, feeling the furniture and making decisions about which rooms the different furniture should go in.
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The Moonbeams pupils have being learning about the importance of identity. The pupils can identify their name or photo and they have been practicing writing their names. The Moonbeams know they live in Scotland and were able to identify or colour in the Scotland Flag.
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This week the Stars class have planted onions and sunflower seeds. Hopefully they will grow well. We grew a baby dinosaur and explored frozen dinosaur eggs, We are creating a mod roc dinosaur head for our wall display. It will look good when painted. We modelled dinosaurs out of playdoh. Can you recognise them?
The Sunflowers have had a fun week taking part in Jack and The Beanstalk activities. We have all enjoyed building a castle in the clouds using foam and bricks. Each child also took part in building a beanstalk using our number bricks alongside lots of story activities and character matching. We all had fun planting our magic beans to make our own beanstalk and colour matching them.
We have been having lots of fun learning all about the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
We were successful learners and answered lots of questions about the story then made confident choices to create our own artwork of a magic bean, just like Jack traded his cow for in the story.
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For one of our fine motor skills tasks this week, we have been working on the threading of the magic harp from the Jack and the Beanstalk story. We worked on following the pattern of the harp and carefully threading it to match the picture from the book.
As part of our Aladdin topic, we made our very own magic carpets and tiger tail snacks! We practised spreading, cutting and mixing to make our snacks and waited very patiently for our turn to choose all of the ingredients we wanted to use. Everyone used big voices and did some great choosing when deciding what they wanted to use to make their snacks.
“Are you Dancing?” – “Are you asking?”
“Come on Logan step in time!”
Working on our Interdisciplinary Learning (IDL) we are making some Forest Art work, using paint and bouncy balls – CLEVER!
Rolling side to side!!
WOW!!! What a Successful Learner!!!
A Confident Individual having fun carrying out his hard work,
Ready – this successful leaner is multi-tasking, doing her Art in her Standing Frame – ART and MOVE.
Working on our gripping skills – holding on to the bags, then dropping them on to the mat.
“What a score!”
“See if you can beat her?”
Rainbow Numeracy at Morning Group
“Paying for Snacks” Great money exchange from this effective contributor.
Money Matching
Great counting and building skills.
CRASH!!!!
“Lets make it higher Logan”
MOVE Rolling from side to side!!
Working on our Numeracy Skills.
A very successful learner working on his MOVE skills – great core muscle strength, fantastic reaching and stretching.
More Multi-purpose Flapper Skills – Fencing – go Boyle!!!
Science – We are Planting our Morrison’s Seeds of Hope.
MOVE great Sitting.
Now for some well earned Sensory Play.
Working on my fine motor skills and trying to pick out the bouncy balls with the tongs – HEY!! not as easy as it looks!!!
Auditioning for Santa in the Christmas Show!
So much fun – but we are also stretching out our hands and fingers.
Mmmmm…. is there something in your hair?
Secondary Assembly
Enjoying to listening to Singing Hands and then using the AAC Devices to tell everyone ‘I am Happy’
IDL work – recognising the characters from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
Benefits of Sensory Play, developing fine motor skills, gripping and stretching skills, and building up tactile tolerance.
Welcome to the Pine Class Snack Café, we are working on our numeracy and money exchange skills.
Even offering a Speedy Shopper delivery service.
Global Goals 16 – we are looking at the roles of the Police in our Community.
There has been a robbery in the Pine Room, someone has broken in and stolen the Jaffa Cakes!!! Dial 999 and ask for the Police!
Lets look for clues, a fingerprint – who’s is it??? We need to take everyone’s fingerprints.
So WHODUNIT? “Sorry young lady you have been nicked”
OH NO!!! someone has eaten all the evidence!!! Case dismissed!!!
Creating cause and effect making the unicorn laugh – MOVE – looking good in your new Standing Frame!
Finishing our IDL Art
Message for the ECO-CAPTAIN use everyday objects clipped on clothes pegs to create mini pain brushes – very creative.
WOW!! What amazing work
Get ready for FRIDAY DISCO!!! Music and MOVEment!!
Hard work time – Colour Sorting and Fine Motor Skills.
MOVE – Great sitting – Have a lovely weekend everyone!!!
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The Beech class worked really hard in Numeracy this week, concentrating on recognising & ordering numbers, recognising coins, and telling the time. We got our bodies moving as we went on a hunt in the playground to find some hidden numbers. We then worked together as a team to put them into the correct order – brilliant teamwork!
