Willowbank School, KilmarnockLAVA LAMPS
All the pupils were able to help fill a bottle a quarter of the way with water. Most pupils were able to carefully add vegetable oil to the bottle and some pupils were able to use a dropper to add some food colouring to the mix. It was lots of fun seeing the reaction it made and watching the movements within the bottle.
This week we were using different digital technologies. The children are confident individuals at using the SMARTboard at morning group. They are able to use the pen to overwrite their name and some can even use the tools at the side to change the colour independently. We used the Beebots this week and the children loved exploring them. They were able to push the arrow buttons in a sequence to make the Beebot move a specific way. Some were even able to remember to press the cross before starting a new sequence. They loved that the Beebots had a light so we explored them in the dark too.
We used the SMARTboard to play lots of different games to. Everyone really enjoyed the shape game. We had to feed the correct shape to the correct shape monster. They were successful learners and able to use their finger to drag the shape to the mouth of the shape monster. We also played literacy games finding the beginning letter of CVC words.
We also had lots of fun with a noise activated spider. We had to make a noise to get the spider to move the louder the noise the faster it moved around the floor. We were confident individuals working on using our voice to make loud noises.
We were given sunflowers seeds to plant as a class. All the boys were confident individuals we used a trowel to scoop and fill the pots, we added a sticker with their name on them. We then picked a seed and put it inside. The boys have been responsible citizens are have been watering them throughout the week. We are looking forward to seeing how tall they grow.
The Bluebells had great fun yesterday doing some yoga. We had to copy different shapes and become different animals. We were confident individuals at copying the pictures and the ladies. We listened and worked together to try all the different poses. A favourite was the lion pose as we got to stick our tongue out . Everyone tried really hard to make the difficult poses of the bridge and the crab.
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Our theme is Goldilocks and the three bears. We were confident individuals and used google maps on the SMARTboard to look for houses. We then chose different parts of a house to create our own house design. Some choose a long brick house and some chose a tall coloured house. We also looked at lots of pictures of different parts of a house such as the roof, windows and doors. We then talked about what we had in our garden and drew a path and some grass . We also looked at different types of houses that people stay in and chose where we would like to stay , the most popular choice in class was a caravan .
Making a bear sandwich.
We looked at the ingredients we needed to make a bear sandwich. We needed bread, chocolate spread, banana and blueberries. We each got a slice of bread and used a knife to spread the chocolate spread on the bread. We then sliced the banana to create a nose and ears for the bear. We then chose blueberries to add to make two eyes and the tip of his nose. The boys loved creating this and were able to spread with physical support from staff. They enjoyed seeing their final creation and some tried it at snack time.
Building in our outdoor space.
We enjoyed exploring the bricks in our outdoor area. We were confident individuals and tried to build a tower and a wall with the new bricks. We even tried balancing on the wall we built.
Yesterday was Earth Day. We are Effective Contributors and already in the Bluebells class recycle and use reusable cups at snack time. We used up scrap tissue paper that we ripped up to make some earth sun catchers for our windows. We were Confident individuals and were able to place the green and blue tissue paper inside the circle to make land and water on our earth. We also did some painting. We used blue and green to make it look like a world and drew around our hands and used scissors to cut them out. Once dry we stuck a heart in the middle and our hands to the side as if we were holding the earth.
We also sat in the dark and read a story with torches. It was great fun. It was a sensory story and they enjoyed feeling the different items in the pages.
This week we completed lots of different Easter activities. We used our hands to make different animals to make some Easter cards. We made a chick and a bunny rabbit. We had an egg and spoon race on Monday in the classroom – we tried to balance the egg on spoon first before we added in walking. We also decorated some Easter baskets and added some delicious chocolate eggs.
Today we had an Easter egg hunt in the classroom looking for lots of chocolate eggs hidden around the room. We also wore our chick head pieces we made to our virtual assembly today. We danced to the “Spring chicken” song and played our instruments to other songs too.
Today we celebrated “Lots of socks day” for World Downs Syndrome Day which was on Sunday. We took a picture of all our feet in odd socks. We decorated socks with different materials. We made them both different to make them odd socks. We also added felt ears, a felt tongue, eyes and a pom pom nose to a sock to make a puppy sock puppet. We then wore them on our hands made them go WOOF!!!!!! Some of us were also wearing purple for Epilepsy Awareness Day too.
