Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe were exceptionally responsible citizens this week as we all took part in a 1 minute silence on the 11th of November to pay our respects to the men and women who lost their lives in the war.
We took part in a range of activities about Poppy day, here are some of our favourite activities:
The Beech class have absolutely loved being back in the gym hall for PE! We have taken part in some interpretive dance with props and have been responsible citizens with all the different pieces of equipment.
Hugh received our ‘Star of the Week’ award this week for his participation in PE using his lift pants.
We’ve been learning all about Guy Fawkes, bonfire night and firework safety this week. One of our activities included taking part in a shooting rocket experiment. We were successful learners as we designed and built our own rocket ships using recycled bottles and paper straws. We then used the air inside the bottle to propel our rockets forward by squeezing the bottle. We experimented by using different straw lengths and concluded that the longer the straw, the further our rockets would travel.
Here are some photos from our Halloween week in the Beech class. We were all effective contributors as we took part in a range of fun activities and loved dressing up on Friday for our class Halowe’en party!
The Beech class have had a fun week celebrating Hallowe’en! We took part in a music lesson where we learned to play percussion along to the ‘Skeleton Dance’.
We made lots of pumpkins from recycled materials as part of our ECO campaign in school. Our target is based on ‘Zero Hunger’ so rather than have lots of food waste from real pumpkins, we made our own pumpkins from recyclable materials.
In cookery, we made rice krispie pumpkins and monster cookies!
The Beech class had really good fun this week celebrating Diwali! We were successful learners as we explored the religious festival of Diwali by making traditional Hindu items.
We made Diva lamps out of salt dough, rangoli patterns out of spiced play-dough and dyed rice and we also made special lanterns as it is a ‘Festival of Light. ‘
Some of the Beech class enjoyed a lovely Autumn walk around the Kay Park this morning. We were effective contributors as we took turns to plan our route on a map of our local area and follow the directions to get to our destination. We were careful to follow the green cross code along the way!
The Beech class enjoyed celebrating Harvest by gathering foods to donate to the foodbank and completing lots of fun activities around the class. We learned what harvest means along with some useful Malaton signs for this time of year. We also looked at the food that is harvested at this time of year, how we sort or label our foods and then we thought about where different foods come from. We were successful learners during when completing the different activities at each station.
We also created some lovely Autumn themed crafts! These are our favourite masterpieces.
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