Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class were hard at work planning their Healthy Cooking SQA class for after the October Break. They were all Confident Individuals when they chose a local product (Eggs) and selected a local producer. They then identified healthy and non-healthy ways of preparing them. After the holidays the class will prepare the eggs in different ways for a photo shoot.
The Transition class have been Confident Individuals taking part in numeracy skills each day. We have had fantastic number formation and day recognition. Well done everybody!
Confident Individuals Effective Contributors Successful Learners
The Snowdrops have been learning all about the life-cycle of a butterfly. They really enjoyed watching the life-cycle story, matching and sequencing pictures/sensory toys, joining in with the songs and could answer simple questions as part of our class discussions. We also made beautiful butterfly pictures.
This week we have been learning about Harvest. We were confident individuals and joined the whole school assembly on Wednesday virtually.
We made ourselves into scarecrows by colouring in a picture and adding our picture to the face.
We were also confident individuals playing a game of pin the carrot on the scarecrow. Some were able to tolerate the mask covering their eyes it was great fun.
We have enjoyed our time learning about harvest time, different foods produced, helping others and being thankful for the food we eat.
We went on a food hunt round our classroom and used a checklist to make sure we had found all the items, we made a scarecrow and chose which materials to use for the scarecrow’s hair. We also collected food for the local food bank and took it to the collection point in the school. This afternoon we made our own classroom harvest wreath and made a harvest shaker to shake while we sang harvest songs at the end of the day.
Well done, Asteroids!
The Asteroids have been enjoying their topic, Oliver’s Vegetables.
We have been reading the book together, dressing up as the main characters and have shown good recall of the main events in the story. We have been sequencing the story using visuals and have been able to answer some comprehension questions based on the story. We have also been matching key words to pictures and characters. Awesome Asteroids Alert! 
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We’ve had a busy week, enjoying taking part in maths and number activities everyday to celebrate National Maths Week. During morning group, we took turns to complete some maths tasks on the board and during the day we included other maths related activities, including measuring ourselves with lollysticks, collecting stones and sticks and putting them in size order and we even made numbers from sticks. We played a shape game and had to try and make our bodies look like the shapes shown. As part of our IDL topic, we weighed different vegetables and predicted which would be heavier/lighter. We also worked hard working out the missing number in addition calculations.
Phew! Well done, Asteroids!
It was National Maths Week this week. The Transition class were Confident Individuals and had a good old boogie. When the music stopped the class had to strike a pose from the list of shapes. Everyone copied them expertly!
This is National Maths Week we have been doing even more counting than usual in the Pine Room.
We were successful learners and make some cool Willowbank buses, we counted the silver squares, added two wheels and a Willowbank badge and decided which of our friends we wanted to join us in the bus.
Amazing Work!!!
We starting working on our SQA Baking Unit – making choices of what we liked!
Continuing with our Literacy and Art Sessions and the Letter B – these confident individuals worked on some Brown Bear Pictures.
We have been working on our Food Theme – Don’t Waste your Food – and got some work done for our Display Board, bananas, bread, apples and lettuce, we used lots of different art techniques.
Reading Spinderella for Numeracy ….lots of counting and clapping not always in time!!!
Counting the GOALS for these two football mad boys!!!
A class number hunt.
But don’t forget the MOVE!!!
We love to count the blocks …and knock them down!!!
These Responsible Citizens were learning all about where to put your recycling, lead by or Vice-Eco Captain.
Have a fantastic weekend everyone.
To celebrate National Maths Week, we all completed numeracy tasks for at home and in school. We worked on our sequencing work, with numbers and patterns. We interacted with a partner to share our patterns and copy one another. We were confident individuals when taking part in all work tasks that were set.
As part of our topic work ‘Breakfast around the World’, we combined this with maths week. We were experiencing the country of France and learned some commonly used phrases as well counting 1-5 in french.
