Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Moonbeams class recently looked at the salt content in a range of foods. We looked a pretzels, meatballs, crisps, chips and much more. We had to carefully measure how much salt you would find in each food and order them from least amount of salt to most amount.
We all managed to order these according to the numbers on the zip loc bags.
We learned about clean water today and how lucky we are to have easy access to clean drinking water. The boys all made a choice of which glass of water they would like to drink, they all chose the clean water…..apart from Sean he reached for the dirty water and tried to have a drink!
We had a discussion about what would happen if we let Sean drink the dirty water and the effects it would have on our body.
All boys were successful learners, very engaged and attentive, we then watched a water walk video. One girl had to walk 8 miles every day to get dirty drinking water. As a class we measured how many steps it would take us to get a glass of clean drinking water. We created a graph to compare our steps to the girl in the video.
We also experienced walking ten steps with a bucket on our head. Some boys clearly did not like but others told us they liked the weight on their head.
We have been working hard learning our Scottish dances for our Burns Supper. All boys have really enjoyed the dancing this week, everyone has been an effective contributor to make all the dances a success.
We also made the table decorations for the Burns supper, paper roses and thistles.
Jack and Blake have been learning the words and signs for the Selkirk Grace, they have been confident individuals performing in front of their class peers
The boys had fun at the sensory Burns assembly thank you Bluebells and Sungazers.
We were looking at our Rights Respecting Article 15 – I have the right to choose my friend and be included. The boys choosing their closest friend in the class. Sean was Mr popular the majority of the boys chose him as their friend.
This is my favourite photo of the term!
The Snowdrops have been exploring the different ways we can make sounds using percussion instruments. We decided to make our own percussion instruments using recycled milk cartons and Scottish foods. We bought some Scottish oats, lentils, peas and macaroni on our outing to Tesco. Everyone made effective contributions – choosing and filling our own containers. After sealing our bottles, the Snowdrops found we could make lots of noise by shaking them. Lots of successful learning and great fun to shake when we sing ‘Ye canny shuv your granny off a bus’!
The Snowdrops have been exploring ways we can use our recycled bottles and find out how much rain falls outside in our school garden. Super work being responsible citizens and we will put them in our school garden when the weather gets less slippy and frosty!
We were all superstars when taking part in our infant nativity. We all learned our different roles and especially enjoyed getting on our costumes and performing to friends and family.
For our term two Enterprise project, we enjoyed making crafts to sell at the Christmas Fair.
We were confident individuals when following visual instructions to create Sock Snowmen and Reindeer Hot Chocolate.
The boys are all doing fantastic in their Fun with Food group, everyone is a happy and willing to try the food each week even if they know it is a food they do not like. Their confidence and curiosity has grown and I am very pleased with them all.
This lesson involved making porridge and then making chocolate porridge. They were all confident individuals and Anthony added a bit too much when it came to the coco powder then decided to give it a taste! Which is what the session is all about building confidence to want to taste new foods and find out what it is like!
The boys have enjoyed learning to play new songs on different instruments. Whilst making our new year targets all the boys made it very clear which instrument they wanted to concentrate on and improve their performance.
They are effective contributors when playing their instrument along to one of our tunes.
