Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Daisies class listened to a story called “Formidable Sid” yesterday. We looked closely at different pets and identified which animal was hiding behind the binoculars during a PowerPoint game. Finally, we identified what needs different animals have.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Daisies class loved today’s visit to our local park. We walked there using our road safety rules, loved exploring the park equipment and playing with our friends.
Today we went on our class outing. We all held hands and explored the area around the school. We were able to stop at the roads, look both ways and then cross when it was safe to do so. We saw lots of dogs wagging their tails and builders building the new houses around the corner. We were confident individuals walking well and finding different coloured objects on our route.
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
Last week the Snowdrops class enjoyed participating in careers week themed activities.
Everyone showed interest in pictures of different jobs people do in the community and the vehicles and uniforms they use to do these jobs.
The Snowdrops then participated in role-play activities. Everyone enjoyed dressing up as police officers, firefighters , nurses and vets!
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Over Fair Trade Fortnight, we have been learning about Fair trade and what it means for us. We are now able to recognise the Fair Trade logo so can have a look for it when we visit the supermarket! We used Fair Trade lemons and sugar to make our own lemonade.
*Responsible Citizens *Successful Learners *Effective Contributors
For Careers Week we pretended to be Domino’s Pizza employees. We prepared the pizza’s to order. They were very tasty indeed. We also learnt about other jobs and signed them. Being a firefighter was a popular career choice.
The Asteroids looked at different jobs this afternoon, specifically people who help us.
We paid attention and took part in chatting about where we can see/find people who do these jobs and how and when they might help us.
We had a great time dressing up! Our favourites were Police Officers and Firefighters!
SQA Numeracy – we were building up bricks and counting them, and colour sorting beanbags.
Fair trade SQA cookery for these responsible citizens, using our skills to measure, sieve, count paper cases and get all the ingredients into the big mixer. We made Muffins, using Fair Trade Chocolate and Bananas.
Great results!!!
This week in Literacy our letter was ‘M’, we looked for words around the classroom that started with this letter – can you think of any? Then we made lovely Monkey pictures for our alphabet books,
SQA Communication we matched the characters up with their colours. Do you know which character in ‘Inside Out’ is which colour???
Helping my friend.
One of our Books for World Book Day was Dinosaur Roar, we learned interested facts about different Dinosaurs, coloured in our choice of Dinosaur….
counted the different dinosaurs, and walked in their footsteps. ROAR!!!!!
This week we National Careers Week, we looked at different careers we have in the community. Throughout the week we linked our activities to different careers – we have been builders, cooks, artists, designers, writers, historians and paleontologists!!!
Dressing up for World Book Day.
Miss Trunchbull this Superhero isn’t scared of you!!
Welcome to the Pine Room Christopher Robin!
IDL Theme Mr Benn’s story The Red Knight, we pretended we were Knights and Dragons!!
Then looked through magazines, made choices and then made shields.
Then these effective contributors helped their friend walk the Dinosaur trail – count up to 10, then count backwards!!!
Have a fab weekend everyone
x
Successful Learners
For Careers Week, the Sunflower’s enjoyed matching occupations with their related tools. Each child was able to select the correct job and the tools that were needed to complete the job. Everyone enjoyed uncovering photos of occupations on the interactive board and each child got to select an occupation and watch a short video.
This week we have been learning about Fairtrade.
we looked for the Fairtrade logo on items then used used some Fairtrade items -chocolate and bananas to made some yummy cupcakes. We also explored lots of dry sensory materials and used these to create a lovely sensory picture. We also reused all of our wrappers and collaged a handprint shape with all the wrappers and Fairtrade pictures.
