Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Beech class have finally bid farewell to our class butterflies. We have been exceptionally responsible citizens over the past few weeks as we have taken care of our caterpillars, watched them grow into their chrysalis and then nurtured them as they became butterflies. Here are some photos of the day we carefully released them into their natural habitat.
As part of out topic, the Beech pupils designed and created bubbly potions!
We chose which ingredients we wanted in our potions and how many of each ingredient we would need and then challenged a friend to make it.
We really enjoyed thinking about what magic would come from our potions and seeing the different reactions of the ingredients mixing together.
We are really enjoying our Alice in Wonderland topic. Here are some photos of our topic work this week:
Wehad fun taking part in a game of wonderland-themed croquet! It was really tricky!
We had some sensory fun this week as we made caterpillar slime and play dough using some fun recipes!
Alysse very much enjoyed showing off our caterpillars to the Snowdrops class who are reading the story ‘The Very Hungary Caterpillar’. Alysse was a confident individual as she was very careful when handling the caterpillars and confidently told the young people about the caterpillars and their life cycle.
In cookery, we made cupcakes and decided to make them into a Hungry Caterpillar!
We have enjoyed participating in ‘Maths Week Scotland’ this week. We have all been successful learners during all of our number and shape activities. Here are some of our favourite photos of the week:
We played number games via ICT
We explored position and movement using the BeeBots
Emma was learning about quarters using a PowerPoint on the laptop.
We built lego structures using numbered instructions.
We created a parabolic design using numbers and coloured lines!
We also had a maths quiz at the end of the week where we put all of our knowledge and learning of the week to the test!
We took part in a ‘Move and Groove’ yoga session where we created shapes with our bodies and then made shape monsters out of 2D shapes!
Finally, we used numbers to word codes and then created our own number codes for a friend to crack!
Our caterpillars have turned into a chrysalis and are now taking time to harden. Once they are fully formed and hard, they will be ready to be transferred into their new habitat. It was really exciting watching them wriggle around and change shape!
The Beech class enjoyed our very own ‘Mad Hatter Tea Party’ for Macmillan this week! We made our own Alice in Wonderland themed snacks and chose a character to be while sitting at the table. We also made our own place mats and invitations for our friends! We were all Effective Contributors as we organised the event and took on roles at each stage.
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!
We have had a very busy week in the Beech class! We are enjoying our current ‘Alice in Wonderland’ topic and have done lots of activities connected to our topic. Here are some of the things we have done this week:
We made the Cheshire Cat from a paper plate and the card characters out of tissue paper.
We used different measuring equipment to measure the different real life sizes of the main characters of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. We then ordered the different characters according to size.
We did some rhyming activities during literacy and even made our very own Cheshire Cat poem! We were very successful learners as we learned how to identify a rhyming word and check that our poem makes sense.
We had a lovely tea party on Friday morning with Scones that Tyler, Emma and Hugh made on Thursday during our life skills cookery session.
Emma and Amber have really enjoyed recreating the magical door from ‘Alice in Wonderland’, we plan to use this during creative writing activities.
Our favourite activity this week has been music where we learned to play a rhyme on using Boomwhackers!
We had fun this week practising our cutting and spreading skills when we made funky sandwiches! We each chose our toppings and fillings then chose a shape to cut our sandwich in to. We then went outside to enjoy a picnic in the sunshine!
To celebrate all of our super MOVE pupils and the fact that we have ALL been superheroes this year, we had a superhero themed day in school! We dressed up and played lots of superhero themed games and even had a superhero championship! Amelia was crowned our Lead superhero after winning the most points in our challenges. We were all confident individuals as we took part in each activity and enjoyed our day together.
Here are some of our favourite photos of our day:
Superhero Movement Exercises…
Superhero training assault course:
Superhero ‘Four Corners’ and Villain scavenger hunt:
Class Photo!
Using our superhero powers and senses to guess what is in the box:
Captain America Throwing Challenge:
