Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Moonbeams have tried really hard to include more reading time in our timetable this week. We have visited the school library, loved choosing stories to take home from the book swap and we have included 10minute reading sessions at the end of each day. We have read ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Catastrophe’, ‘Wonky Donkey’ and ‘The Mega Magic Hair Swap’.
The Daisies were successful learners during World Book Day. We participated in a book swap, and chose what books we would like.
We spent time in the sensory room and had great listening to different stories while relaxing in our pajamas and costumes.
We were confident individuals when taking part in our costume parade and enjoyed seeing everyone fantastic costumes and favourite books.
On Friday, we enjoyed a visit from author Greta Yorke who read ‘The Tartan Witch’. We were effective contributors and took part in lots of sensory activities linked to the story. The daisies especially enjoyed making a magic potion!!
The boys used their numeracy skills and were all Successful Learners when challenged to find a date. They were given the names of common yearly celebrations and had to work out the date and find it in a diary.
Transition boys were Successful Learners by sharing their stories from activities that they did at the weekend and a story was written about a battle.
We enjoyed making and eating our pancakes on Tuesday, we were all effective contributors to work together to make our pancakes.
SQA ECO group are being responsible citizens and created posters to request old mascara wands. We watched videos on animals being looked after and cared for using recycled mascara wands
The class took the posters around the school to let everyone know we want all old mascara wands. Do not put them in the bin send them to the Oak class.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Moonbeams loved our recent World Book day celebrations. We all dressed up in costumes, enjoyed the school parade and Alysse was delighted to win best costume in the Middle Primary!
We also enjoyed a trip to Tesco where we bought 2 class books – ‘The Wonky Donkey’ and ‘The Mega Magic Hair Swap’.
On our return to class, we tried to draw the fantastic Mr Fox. We used a step by step guide and all loved doing this. Look at our amazing results!
World Book Day this week! The Oak boys were all confident individuals when choosing their reading book and reading it to an adult. They completed a book review to share their opinion on their story.
Angus has been making great progress and coming to join his friends for quite a few activities this week. He loves to sing ‘Shotgun’ and ‘Flower of Scotland’.
We also were successful learners working on telling the time in analogue and digital format. The boys played a time game with a partner, ‘Roll and Tell the Time.’ The first person to complete a straight line had to shout ‘BINGO’.
Every class went to great efforts to dress up in their favourite character or come in their PJs for a bedtime story.
Our WINNERS for World Book Day!
This is the first time the whole Oak class have all sat together around the snack table! It has been a great week in the Oak class!
We read ‘The Lion Inside’ and then had fun creating a our Lion art work.
This week was our sensory eco assembly.
We played games made of recycled materials. The boys all loved playing them. We decorated our own class canvas bag. We are going to use this for our weekly outings. We made recycled art work. We used lots of pencil sharpenings to decorate our butterfly pictures. We also had to feel different materials and decide which bin we would put the item in.
Fairtrade fun last Friday, we all enjoyed a Cheeky monkey hunt around the school and then lots of Fairtrade fun games in the afternoon, it all got very competitive!
All the boys were successful learners finding all the Fairtrade photos around the school.
