Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Bluebells class have been doing lots of work relating to our theme “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. In the film, chocolate chip cookies fell from the sky. We worked together to make chocolate chip cookies. They tasted delicious!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS *
The Bluebells class have been very busy this week. On Monday afternoon, we completed lots of literacy and phonics jobs. We had to identify pictures using initial sounds, find magnetic upper and lowercase letters to make a range of words and also created some CVC words.
Well done to our wonderful families who joined us for a Makaton Taster session on Wednesday. It was great to see you all. Well done on all your sign and symbol use! We look forward to hearing how you all get on at home.
YES .a. The sun came out this week so we managed to get out and play on the playground equipment, make some bubbles and drawing with chalk on the pavement!!!
We were Confident Individuals and heated up some meatballs and boiled spaghetti – and tried eating it like Lady and the Tramp!
We enjoyed some time playing with different musical instruments.
We continued with our ICE Pack Theme – How Do I Feel? And read the story of Hugless Douglass, and then watched some Inside Out, played with the sensory material and made a new feelings poster for our room.
The Beech class had a lovely sensory morning in the art room. The pupils were given the opportunity to feel and manipulate various textures including:
With support, the pupils cut small pieces of their chosen textures, furry, smooth and bumpy, to design this fabulous parachuting, dainty, English cow!
Excellent collaborative work today from these effective contributors. Well done everyone!
The plastic bottle greenhouse is fairly taking shape!
The Transition boys worked hard this week, cleaning and helping to cut a LOT of plastic bottles for the construction. The pupils created a mini ‘production line’ which consisted of taking off labels – removing plastic lids – washing the bottles – drying the bottles – cutting off the bottom part – sorting into plastic bags… phew!
Excellent turn taking, listening and support of peers was witnessed during this exercise. Absolutely wonderful work from these effective contributors and responsible citizens!
Today the Pine class constructed these simple 3D fried egg models in relation to their class topic, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
The pupils were given the opportunity to explore a range of sensory materials, The final ‘fried eggs’ were created using white net material and yellow velvet.
Excellent work from these super confident individuals!
Today the Bluebells enjoyed exploring the art room and utilising some of the new resources which have arrived. The boys and girls took turns to share the new texture print paintbrushes. They worked well together and displayed good listening skills throughout the activity.
Well done to these effective contributors.
Effective contributors/successful learners
The Snowdrops have been exploring different textures to art materials to create a turnip which we have been hearing about in our theme story The Enormous Turnip. Everyone helped to tear strips of newspaper and then we mixed flour and water to make a mache paste. We painted balloons with mache and covered the balloon in strips of newspaper. It has been very messy fun!
RRS – New Friends (Article 15) Confident Individuals/Successful Learners
The Snowdrops have been looking at large photos of their new class friends. We have all created friendship boards to take home and a large class poster. The Snowdrops can recognise our Willowbank school badge and our class snowdrop picture. We have been practising saying or signing all the names of our class friends too.
