Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class were working hard on their ILP targets and were Successful Learners. They all had their individual literacy or numeracy tasks and worked well at them
Making plans for after school
Matching coins
Reading and showing understanding
Common words
Directional Language
Following directional arrows
This week has been lots of fun in the Bluebells class. We have created many Halloween crafts and had lots of fun at our class Halloween party today.
We carved pumpkins and had lots of fun exploring the insides – touching and smelling them. We made peekaboo cats with chalk which are being displayed outside our classroom. We made spooky cauldrons with lots if different coloured glitter and sequins. The children were confident individuals at choosing their own glitter and sequins for the spooky potion inside the cauldron. We also made pumpkins for the window. We chose different tissue paper to put inside the pumpkin shape and them we laminated them. We put them on out windows in the classroom.
The Transition class took part in different types of Hallowe’en Literacy this week. They were all Successful Learners when they completed word searches, CVC spelling, Eye spy sheets and a whole class CVC treasure hunt.
The Transition class spent an afternoon making spooky treats. We used food colouring to make green, orange and black icing. Each pupil chose either a pumpkin or a spider and drew it in icing. We added decoration before scoffing the lot!
*Confident Individuals* *Effective Contributors*
The Sungazers have had a Halloween fun-filled week! We created Halloween potions using a variety of ingredients (magic powder, green gloop & a special liquid to make it bubble and pop):
We completed some numeracy activities including a Halloween code breaker & enjoyed a game of Halloween Bingo:
We got creative in Cookery and made Sausage Roll Mummies & decorated some spooky biscuits:
We celebrated Halloween today with fantastic costumes & games in the class:
Have a super weekend everyone!
This week we recycled something that would have been put in the bin and used it for an art project. We made pumpkins from cardboard kitchen roll tubes – we painted them orange and then added spooky faces with black crayons and pens. It was great fun and is good for the environment.
The Transition class broke into their Hallowe’en stash early this week! They were Successful Learners when they categorised the tub of sweets to see how many of each they had. We started off on the floor but Mr Nicoll suddenly remembered that he was old, so we made the final rows of sweets on the table. We discovered that the most common sweet was a refresher bar closely followed by parma violets (yuck!)
We having been exploring different toy fruit and vegetables and being doing some role play. We have been pretending to be the shop keeper and a customer and weighing different fruit and vegetables. We have been comparing them seeing which is heavier. We were all confident individuals and able to choose different things to put on each side of the scales to see which is heavier.
MNU 0.11a
The Transition class had the opportunity for a dance class this week and they tried lots of different things. They were all Effective Contributors and tried their best at everything. We all liked the light up swinging balls. They made good effects in the dark!
Successful Learners
Yesterday in class, the Sunflower’s were given a fine motor skills challenge. Each child actively participated by using tweezers to collect skeletons, bugs, spiders and eye balls from the different jelly bowls. Everyone was encouraged to taste and touch the jelly too and we managed to collect all of the spooky items from our jelly.
