Willowbank School, KilmarnockSuccessful Learners
The Sunflower’s have loved learning to make salt dough fossils as part of their science dinosaur tasks. All children were able to press dinosaurs down on the dough to make a fossil effect. After they were baked, everyone painted them. Some pupils helped out by adding the ingredients shown on the recipe on our SMARTboard and mixed the salt, flour and water together to make the dough. Great work Sunflowers!
Our new theme is dinosaurs and this week we were also learning all about the letter “d”. We made d dinosaurs. We were confident individuals gluing the spikes to the letter d and then using bingo dabbers to create a spotty effect on the letter.
We also were matching different types of dinosaurs to their shadows. We had to look at the shape outline and see if we could find the matching dinosaur picture.
Confident Individuals
During dinosaur theme tasks, the Sunflower’s have been learning all about four types of dinosaurs. Using an AAC device, each child was able to choose their favourite dinosaur from the four. Excellent decision making Sunflower’s!
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We are absolutely loving our Ancient Egyptian theme. This week we have been learning about Egyptian pharaohs, Tutankhamun and Cleopatra.
We each learned a little bit about each pharaoh and then designed a headdress to wear in a role play scenario.
The Asteroids worked well today, putting together their Easter gifts for people at home.
We discussed who we might give the gifts to, then the boys set to work handling the foodstuffs without being tempted to eat them! It was very tempting!
We listened well to instructions and made confident choices.
Well done, Asteroids! The gifts are eggcellent!
As part of our IDL theme work we have been exploring toys from the past and some of us brought in our favourite toys to share with the class. We all were effective contributors when sharing our opinions on the toys from the past. We enjoyed playing with toys and the majority of the class said they preferred the old toys compared to their game consoles or IPads.
We were successful learners and confident individuals when participating in our PE lessons this week. Lots of great active participation with smiles all round. We have been working on our listening skills, working with a partner, throwing and catching. Very proud of the whole class this week in their PE lessons, fantastic concentration and determination to do well.
We had a great time last week as we took part in Science Week. This year’s theme was Our Senses. Each day we took part in an experiment about each of our 5 senses. We also enjoyed learning about different engineers and having a go at completing our own STEAM challenges. We were effective contributors and successful learners every day!
we celebrated Red Nose Day last week in style by having a day of laughter and fun. we spent the morning completing team building challenges set by the other secondary classes and them joined up with the others virtually in the afternoon. It was a lot of fun, our favourite challenge was the biscuit eating challenge! We were very effective contributors as we took turns and worked well together.
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The Daisies class enjoyed looking closely at food logos from chocolate bars. We matched their coloured logo to a black and white logo.
We also enjoyed tasting a range of chocolates and sharing our likes and dislikes. We tried mars bar, smarties, aero, cadburys buttons, Kit Kats and kinder chocolate.
