Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class were Successful Learners when working towards their ILP targets. The different tasks included, matching time to a TV schedule, sequencing science methods, improved writing confidence, reading and understanding and communication. Everyone worked very well and is making good progress.
We were learning about Holi which is the Hindu festival, also known as the ‘Festival of Love’ or ‘Festival of Colour’.
We were successful learners when creating a smashing colourful piece of artwork.
We hid the colour and tried to guess it, we then used a hammer to hit the pad and reveal the colour. It was messy, loud and good fun!
We had a great time this morning when we went a walk to the park. The sun was even shining for us!
We paid careful attention to the road and cars when crossing the main road and then we enjoyed a walk through the park, right up to the top then back down again, where we crossed the bridge over the pond and watched the swans and the ducks. It was a little windy so the fountain in the water sprayed us a little.
We all walked really well and enjoyed our wee trip out.
Well done everyone!
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Confident Individuals
The Moonbeams enjoyed demonstrating their skills on the trampoline this week. The children were very confident and did very well at following instructions.
*successful Learners*
We have continued our Ancient Egypt topic this week. We further explored mummification by learning about our internal body parts and also making our very own mummy biscuits!
We also really enjoyed learning about the fashion in the times of the ancient Egyptians and had fun designing and creating our own Egyptian jewellery.
Our new theme is Dinosuars. We have enjoyed starting to learn about dinosaurs in class. We have been watching some dinosaur clips and went for a dinosaur hunt in the garden. We were looking for all types of dinosaurs. Some were large dinosaurs, some were small and some even had wings.
We used masks in classroom to do some roleplay and we pretended we were dinosaurs and roared. We even scared Mrs Higgins.
*Successful Learners* *Confident Individuals*
We have been learning about the importance of fairtrade over the last two weeks. We made banana chocolate chip muffins and brownies in cookery, created fairtrade threading arts and crafts and looked at the origins of chocolate. Toni and Emma enjoyed designing their own fairtrade inspired chocolate bars!
Sensory Play, using our fine motor skills to look for dinosaurs, colour sorting and counting them.
Numeracy we have been working on our subtraction skills, using bean bags, blocks and magnets.
SQA Cookery this week we made biscuits, following the recipe and using the switch to make the mixer work.
Successful learners working our biscuit dough.
Continuing our IDL Story Mr Benn, this week he was a Caveman.
We enjoyed the story, potato stamped dinosaur feet…
then started making Dinosaur skeletons.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Confident Individuals
On Tuesday, the Sunflowers enjoyed their first outing to the park. Each child loved the swings, climbing frame and zip line slide. We had a lovely walk too and practiced using traffic lights. Everyone waiting for the green man to allow us to cross. Well Done Sunflowers!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Daisies class have loved watching our ‘step back in time’ theme film called The Good Dinosaur. We have watched short clips over the last few days and have been through a rollercoaster of emotions.
Today, we used our knowledge to match characters from the film, identified our favourite character and explored dinosaur eggs. We had to crack them open, remove the slime and save the baby dinosaurs.
