Willowbank School, KilmarnockIn the Oak class we have been getting into the Christmas spirit. We were effective contributors during our music lesson. We all had a boomwhacker and together we had to wait and listen until it was our turn to play the note to create the tune of ‘Jingle Bells’.
We took part in lots for art activities to create some lovely Christmas crafts. We were confident individuals when choosing the items for our Santa wish list.
In the Oak class we are continuing to interact with our friends and learn new card games, so far we have played snap and scabby queen. We have been effective contributors and participated actively during our games.
We completed our work on raising our awareness on climate change and the effect of natural disasters to people and animals homes. We were confident individuals when sharing our thoughts on each picture and demonstrated understanding of the situation in each picture.
It was fireworks night, we completed a lot of literacy work this week with a firework theme and then created these lovely bright pictures.
We are in November, so it is time for Christmas show rehearsals to start within the class. Successful learners when learning to play their song for the virtual show.
Successful learners all round during literacy, every one had their individual work to complete. Everyone focused their attention to complete the tasks set.
This term the Oak class have been completing interdisciplinary learning through our Great Outdoors theme work.
We have enjoyed learning through the story, ‘A Camping Spree with Mr Magee’. Everyone participated actively in all the activities, the Oak class enjoy learning outdoors and being active.
Here are some of the highlights of our theme work;
Confident Individuals during literacy tasks. We made binoculars and played ‘I Spy’. We also enjoyed taking photos of the things we enjoy using in the playground. We had to share with our peers our favourite item, we worked hard on using speech and Makaton.
We loved building a tent and making a den, we were effective contributors, working together and having fun climbing inside.
Successful learners during numeracy, we used google maps to work out the distance of our house to school. Also worked out who has the longest and shortest journey to school.
We worked on our directional awareness through the bee bots and fun activities on chairs.
The Oak class were all effective contributors when preparing and making our class coffee morning take place.
Everyone had a collective responsibility to ensure the tables were cleaned before setting the table and decorating our swiss roll to create our version of a caterpillar cake. Cameron named it ‘Coby the Caterpillar’.
Everyone was actively engaged in all the tasks and even more engaged when it came to enjoying the cake with a cup of hot chocolate.
Monday started with a bang to our week of experiments for Science Week.
We made our predications of our success rate and already we have had quite a few passes!
Everyone had a great day making their predication on success of the experiments, then watching and waiting for the experiment to happen to see if they were correct. We were effective contributors when taking part in all the experiments. Also successful learners all round as everyone was keen to get involved and try things out.
We made lava cake and enjoyed eating it, we explored air power through a variety of different experiments. We made a stick man dance in a plate of water and we attempted to make slime, however again we failed at successfully making slime! However the everyone really enjoyed exploring, playing and describing how the slime felt on their hands.
We haven’t just celebrated books on one day but all week. We all really enjoy experiencing and reading the “That’s not my ….” books, so on Monday we collected all the books we had along with different materials and read them together. We touched the different materials then used to create capes and headbands.
On Wednesday we had lots of fun participating in activities around “Goldilocks and the three bears”. We had a large tuff tray full on oats and were confident individuals exploring the oats finding the images underneath and scooping it up into the different bowls. We played with bears deciding who was mummy bear, daddy bear and baby bear. We watched the story on the board and enjoyed playing with the puppets alongside.
Today is the big day World Book Day. Today we are focussing on the book Snow White and seven dwarfs. Miss Hill even dressed up as Snow White. During our morning group we read parts of the story. For cookery we made rice krispie treats made the read and moulded them to look like apples. We decorated out own mirror design and added tin foil to the middle so well all have our own magic mirror and explored the Snow White inspired tuff tray in the afternoon.
We all had great fun celebrating World Book Day, we brought in our favourite stories from home to share with our friends. We also read the ‘Wizard of Oz’ together and we were all effective contributors to the story. We had our role play masks and had to act out our part of the story whilst it was being told.
We then took part in some activities related to our story, we were blindfolded and had to try give the Tin man a heart. We used our super soakers to get the Wicked Witch of the West, she doesn’t like water! We also had to help feed our dog Toto as he was so hungry after his adventure.
After this we took in turns to share our favourite books with our friends in class. To conclude the day, Aladdin found his beautiful princess, Jasmine and they all lived happily ever after.
Round two of knitting for the Oak room, we failed our first attempted so we gave a new technique a try. We were much more successful! We all worked together, we were effective contributors and managed to make three bracelets.
Our LGBT story is about Raffi, who likes to knit. He worries about liking things that others do not. He is worried that people will make fun of him because he likes different things and not the same as everyone else.
Raffi learns that his he has a talent of knitting and this can be used to help others and make people happy.
In the Oak class we have been learning about what makes us different from everyone else and that we are amazing just the way we are. All our hard work will be shared in our class assembly tomorrow to celebrate LGBT.
We listened to our LGBT book, it is about understanding that everyone has their own talents and interests. Everyone is different and we should celebrate difference.
Our book is about Raffi who likes to knit and people are not kind because of this. Raffi starts to worry about not liking the same activities as everyone else in the class.
Raffi loves to knit and is very talented at creating things, we all tried to finger knit today. Well it certainly is a talent as we all got tied up in knots, Mrs Livingstone came to the rescue and helped everyone make a knitted bracelet.
We were effective contributors and everyone focussed their attention to actively participate in the knitting the activity
We love to sing, dance, sign and play music in the Oak class, we have been effective contributors when taking it in turns to perform our songs in from this years playlist.
Here we are performing to ‘Million Dreams’ Make your Own kind of Music’, ‘I love my Life’.
