Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe celebrated shrove Tuesday this week by making our own pancakes! We enjoyed learning about the ingredients, making a shopping list and sequencing the recipe card the day before. On the Tuesday we had fun mixing all the ingredients and following the recipe card. We then practised our money handling skills and communication by ordering our toppings and paying for them using a price list! We were successful learners and effective contributors throughout the morning.
The Beech class worked hard today during our active numeracy session. We are experiencing the different number processes and today we focused on subtraction. We learned by playing different games. we played Skittles, Lego towers, switch-it and dice games and focused on our counting skills and the different mathematical words we use like; “how many more/left”. We were very successful learners.
Responsible Citizen – Effective Contributors – Successful Learners
The Snowdrops have enjoyed exploring our story Giraffes can’t dance. We have explored ways we are all good at different things and had fun trying some animal yoga positions! The Snowdrops have also been creative using different colours and textures to make an LGBT flag and heart-shaped rainbow, thinking about being kind.
Each week, some of our secondary pupils work with Mrs Bolland, our Supported Learning Lecturer, in school. Today, they visited Ayrshire College and confidently explored the environment and took part in lots of activities. Well done!
Today is Pancake Day we had pancakes for snack and really enjoyed playing in the afternoon with our pancake tuff tray. We mixed all the ingredients in the bowl, matched labels with the images of the items needed and flipped pictures of pancakes. All the children had great fun. They were all confident individuals with their flipping skills and everyone used lots of words when touching the ingredients.
Round two of knitting for the Oak room, we failed our first attempted so we gave a new technique a try. We were much more successful! We all worked together, we were effective contributors and managed to make three bracelets.
Our LGBT story is about Raffi, who likes to knit. He worries about liking things that others do not. He is worried that people will make fun of him because he likes different things and not the same as everyone else.
Raffi learns that his he has a talent of knitting and this can be used to help others and make people happy.
In the Oak class we have been learning about what makes us different from everyone else and that we are amazing just the way we are. All our hard work will be shared in our class assembly tomorrow to celebrate LGBT.
Made pancakes last week in cooking and today during snack we had fun seeing who could be the most successful pancake flipper!
Many were successful learners and managed to flip the pancake and catch it again, a few landed on the floor.
Then we ate some pancakes and syrup for snack, Cameron ate two pancakes with syrup and said, ‘Mmmmm, delicious’.
One of the activities we carried out this week for our LGBT Theme was making colourful hanging hearts.
We confidently used them for lots of different learning activities. Counted them and made sure everyone had all 6 colours, we signed all of the colours, we arranged the hearts into the correct size orders and then we strung them all together – don’t they look pretty
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We all enjoyed a lovely session of Tac-Pac – Adam was so relaxed he fell asleep.
Shannon loves the fanning – this really made her giggle.
Shannon and Jacob in SQA Textiles practicing some different techniques of applying colour.
Another wonderful visit from the Clown Doctors. Melanie was a very confident girl copying their actions.
Adam enjoyed the interaction.
Oh they broke the blinds …..don’t tell Joan!!!
But Jessica though it was really funny!
Shannon had a lovely time, she laughed and interaction was lovely.
We were all successful learners and worked on our SQA Numeracy Unit – adding whole number with the help of the large bricks – Reece confidently helped everyone.
For our SQA Unit Communication – Recognising a Character we read the book ‘The Animal Boogie’ – we all selected our favourite characters, then learned their signs and their noises and a little bit about them.
Jessica made the bird dance.
This week in cookery we made a mess… no Bread!!!
We had some hot out the oven for snack, then took some home – yum!
Adam and Melanie enjoyed sensory play and watching Inside Out.
We were a responsible class and took all of our recycling – carefully sorting it into the right compartment.
Hello Mrs Hunter!!!
We enjoyed making choices and then painted paper plates – we are going to make character faces.
Getting our sensory tile started.
Reece and Adam enjoyed watching the hail.
For LGBT we are reading ‘And Tango makes 3’ we also listened to it on the internet.
Waiting for the egg to hatch!!!
*Successful Learners* *Confident Individuals*
The Moonbeams have continued their learning this week through their LGBT Theme. The children were painting and decorating the flag which represents diversity in preparation for their Assembly next week. The class also listened to songs about being different and chose their favourite song to practice and present at Assembly.
This week the Moonbeams made waffles during cookery. They concentrated while pouring and mixing the ingredients together. Some of the pupils chopped up strawberries and used the microwave to make toppings. The waffles were enjoyed by all!
