Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition were Responsible Citizens and the class took part in a few Red Nose Day activities. They were challenged from another class to try and get a biscuit from their forehead to their mouth without using their hands. A lot of chocolate got on faces! We also did some painting with a hammer! We designed a face to add a red nose to. Lots of red paint was put in the nose area which was covered before being splatted with a hammer! Just as well we had our protective suits on!
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We chose what colours we wanted to create personalised handprint dinosaurs. We thought they looked very like a stegosaurus.
This week was Holi – the Indian Festival of Colour, below is a lovely link telling you all about it. We made some lovely colourful pictures, using paint and rulers.
Science Week – all about the Senses – what can you hear???
March showers…
lovely artwork for this group of successful learners, counting and identifying the shapes.
What does this smell like – more science.
SQA Numeracy – subtraction. Using our counting songs, props and Makaton skills.
SQA Cookery, we made science cupcake!
Following the instruction….
… and now for the science bit!!!
They were yummy!!!
And now the sense of taste….didn’t like this one!!!!
This week’s letter was ‘O’ in literacy– how many words can you find that start with the letter O?
Our confident individual made lovely artwork for their alphabet books – using oranges and orange paint to print.
SQA Communication, we started Encanto this week, and started making lovely pictures of Mirabel using different materials.
Science – more hearing experiments watching the vibration created by the drum – which made the rice dance!!
IDL work – Mr Benn and the Caveman, we made dinosaur shapes in salt dough and hatching baby dinosaur.
Have a great weekend everyone!!!
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We started our dinosaur theme by creating handprint dinosaur pictures for our wall display. At science, we did a floating dinosaur experiment where we saved the dinosaur by adding stones to the jug to raise the water level by displacement. We had fun lighting up glow dinosaurs with a torch and making dinosaur shadows. Mrs Gilchrist used a ‘green’ screen for pupils to act out being a dinosaur and superimposed this on to their chosen background. This was a very exciting use of technology. We used a switch to activate the microwave where we made yummy ‘smores’ by melting marshmallows.
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We found lots of goods with the Fairtrade logo and made a collage with rice, tea and lentils. We froze sliced bananas to see how they changed, played bingo and watched video’s and played songs about Fairtrade. Finally we made sundaes using Fairtrade bananas and ice cream and because it was Shrove Tuesday we added pancakes too!
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We read the book, ‘I am Jazz’ and explored how we are all different but special. We compared our looks, interests and families. We created rainbow flags, had a colour hunt and danced to colour diversity, family and Pride songs. At science we did colour experiments. At HE we made tasty coloured traffic light sandwiches which we had for snack. On Purple Friday we created a purple octopus at art and enjoyed sensory handling. We had a very busy week of activities.
This week we have been carrying out some activities for LBGT History Month.
We were creative and confident individuals and used shaving foam and the LBGT colours – red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple to create some interesting art work.
We have also been reading and enjoying different stories and talking about them, below are links to a few favourites.
The Flamingo that didn’t want to be Pink
SQA Numeracy, a favourite addition activity for these successful individuals playing skittles and counting up how many we knock down each time.
Working on our literacy skills, looking for the letters and making the letter sounds, then practising the alphabet with the some of our favourite songs.
In SQA Communication we were deciding which character was our favourite, making lots of choices.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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This week we reminded ourselves to be kind to others. We made a tree of kindness, danced to ‘kindness’ music and read the bible story, ‘The Good Samaritan’. We explored how to care for animals so that they are well looked after and happy.
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We created lovely Valentine’s cards to take home and made tasty Jam Heart biscuits, They tasted really yummy! We also made Ice Ornaments for the garden. We collected buds, leaves and flowers then froze them in water, not forgetting to dip string into the water before freezing. We hung them in the garden where they sparkled in the sunshine before melting.
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We enjoyed a variety of activities for Chinese New Year. We learnt how the calendar is names after animals, made fruit fireworks with apples depicting peace and tangerines depicting good fortune. We tried using chopsticks and opened fortune cookies. We had fun making fans and dusted the classroom to clean it for New Year. We created Dragon Kites which flew well in the wind.
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