Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Daisies class enjoyed exploring carrots. We used a knife to chop some carrot tops and put them in shallow dishes with wet cotton balls. We are hoping to grow some green carrot stalks!
We also used carrots as a writing tool and practised our overwriting.
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The Daisies class enjoyed painting using bubble wrap. They loved exploring this material with their fingers and used it to create carrots.
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This week we have been learning more about where our food comes from. We looked closely at where Milk comes from and created our own experiment to experience ‘Milking a Cow’.
After ‘Milking the Cow’, we followed a simple recipe to make Ice-cream in a Bag. We explored the ice and talked about hot & cold. We mixed the ice in a big bag with salt & then placed a smaller bag of milk inside it and shook it around to watch the milk turn into ice-cream. We found it was much harder for the chocolate milk to turn to ice-cream!
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In the Oak class we have been completing Rights Respecting School work. Article 23, I have a disability and I have a right to care and education.
The class created a paper person to represent themselves and added their termly educational target.
We also discussed our circle of trust, the people who are in our circle of trust and who is there to support us, care for us and protect us.
People who will always help us and never let us fall. The class were confident individuals taking part in a trust exercise, demonstrating how much trust they have in Mrs Murray, not to let them fall. No one fell!
A school and class of effective contributors on our request for empty juice bottles.
After the recycling and painting of many plastic bottles, we have each completed a mouth with a full set of perfectly white teeth. We are working on our personal hygiene and we will work on our teeth brushing technique. So we all have lovely teeth and show off our best smile!
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The Moonbeams have been learning that not all children are lucky enough to have food and water at every meal time. The children expressed their emotions as plates were handed out to them. Some plates had plenty of food, some had very little food and others had none. The children identified their emotions on the board to show how they felt about their plates.
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The Snowdrops have been exploring the different fruits that the hungry caterpillar enjoyed eating. We decided to use strawberries to make our own jam roly poly. Everyone showed lots of interest, touching, feeling and smelling strawberries and bread. Pupils participated actively in mashing and squashing the strawberries, using different utensils. We then used a rolling pin to flatten a slice of bread and practiced our spreading skills to cover the bread with our freshly mashed jam. We carefully used our finger tips to gently roll our bread into a roly poly shape. It tasted yummy!
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The Moonbeams had great fun investigating the changes of ingredients during this science activity. The children observed the difference in texture when the marshmallows were melted and then felt the changes with their hands as the cornflour and oil were added. They had great fun playing with the slime and they all thought it smelled lovely!
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This week we were successful learners learning a new paint technique in Art – pulling the paint across the paper using a ruler, very effective BUT we cannot tell you what we are doing with it – it is a Christmas secret!!!
WOW!!!
I am a happy happy boy!!!
Ready for some Animal Boogie??
Making masks for next weeks’ MacMillan – responsible citizens.
Great friends in the Pine Room.
Sensory Cookery involves lots of skills numeracy – counting the cases, identifying the different objects and colours, working on our motor skills and our MOVE when we exercising our hands.
Oh no – they just jumped out of the tray!!!!
Literacy and Art – working on the letter ‘A’ – all will be revealed next week!!!
This successful learner working on her I-gaze skills!!
Confident individuals working on their matching skills.
Our fantastic 50 Things Art from last week.
More Literacy work – matching the ‘A’ pictures and we love the Alphabet songs…
…..successful story sequencing.
Sun is out – so lets go bowling – STRIKE!!!!
Have a great weekend everyone!!!
This week has been very exciting for the beech class – we have been learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly because we have five tiny little caterpillars in clas that we have to look after until they become butterflies!
Here is Alysse who has been a very responsible citizen in helping to look after the caterpillars so far!
We have also continued to explore the themes of Alice in Wonderland this week. We made ‘talking’ flowers from the story…
And discussed the difference between good and bad manners.
In cookery, we made our very own truffle caterpillars! Look at how cute they are!
