Willowbank School, KilmarnockKandinsky inspired artwork in the Beech class!
Our discussion during this art lesson was centred around colour and composition. Each pupil was set the task to choose bright, bold and engaging colours, and to position their coloured heart designs in an eye catching way.
Super engagement by all of these confident individuals.
Well done!
That special day to share and show your love is approaching. In the Oak classes we have made a lovely heart decoration and a sweet treat. We were successful learners when following instructions to make both these gifts.
I wonder who will be receiving these lovely surprises!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Daisies class enjoyed participating in some Valentines themed activities. We found cartoon characters hidden around the room and had to sort them into loved up couples. We found 12 coloured hearts that were hidden around the room.
We completed a 1-10 number sequencing worksheet and paired the halved love heart dominoes.
Finally, we completed some Kandinsky style heart paintings.
As part of our outdoor leaning, another of learning experiences this term was to take part in a bird watching session. We all wrapped up warm and we’re ready for an afternoon of bird watching in the garden. We were effective contributors to work together with our class friends to point out as many birds as possible.
For LGBT month we are learning about different families. We had to be confident individuals and identify our family members to create our personal family tree. We shared this with our friends and discussed about how different families are made.
We are learning through our book ‘We are Together’, this celebrates the power of love, friendship and acceptance. We are all unique and should chase our dreams, when we have the correct support and come together with others we make a great team.
We are learning the signs thanks to Singing Hands, ‘Together everything will be ok’ and together we can raise awareness and acceptance of who you are.
Successful Learners
The Sunflower’s thoroughly enjoyed learning about 2D shapes this week. Each child used flour, food colouring and water to make their own sensory bag. Afterwards, we revised our shapes and practiced drawing them ourselves using a cotton bud. Excellent work Sunflower’s!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The boys in the Daisies class are loving our new gymnastics term at PE. Over the last 2 weeks, we have enjoyed developing our balancing skills using balance beams, benches, stepping stones etc. We have also worked on our core by using the exercise balls and peanuts.
We enjoyed comparing our toys and games to those of children in medieval times.
We were confident individuals participating in different games including ring toss, hide and seek, and bean bag toss with our peers.
The Transition class were Confident Individuals when choosing their feelings during different tasks. The class tried a mint sweet and shared how this made their mouths feel. Some pupils didn’t enjoy the mint and shared this with the rest of the class. Some pupils enjoyed the mint and shared their feeling with the class. some feelings were ‘wiggly’, ‘cold’ and ‘jaggy’.
After ward the class removed their socks and shoes and placed their feet onto the carpet. They all selected symbols to share how their feet felt with the rest of the class.
The Transition class worked hard on their ILP targets this week. Due to the Winter Olympics starting this week most tasks had a flavour of the Olympics. Tasks ranged from designing new curling tops, fine motor control over winter sport patterns, matching patterns and drawing winter sports by following coordinates.
