Willowbank School, KilmarnockThis term we made a card and a gift for someone special in our life. It was Mother’s Day and we all made a card. We painted our hands and made lots of different coloured hand prints on a big piece of card. Some pupils were able to stick all the pieces together to create a vase of flowers. We also made cards and a superhero gift for our dad for Father’s Day.
We were confident individuals of Tuesday and participated in Sport’s Day. We have been practising our races and enjoyed performing in front of our peers.
We were responsible citizens and enjoyed cheering and clapping when watching the other classes take part in their races!
The Asteroids have been confident individuals during our science lesson on floating and sinking.
Firstly we made predictions about whether different objects would float or sink. After we predicted, we tested it out and recorded the results. Did it float or did it sink?
Then we talked about pirate ships and what would happen if the pirates found too much treasure and their ships sunk? We used pennies to try this out.
To test how many pennies it would take to make a pirate ship sink, we firstly make confident choices about which recyclable plastic container we wanted to use as our pirate ships.
Then we tried to predict how many coins it would take to sink our own ships. Test time: we had great fun filling our ships with coins and counting how many our ships took till they sunk. We noticed that bigger ships took more coins than smaller ships to sink!
Well done, Asteroids!
Last week, we were successful learners and followed a visual recipe to collect the ingredients needed.
We were confident individuals, following each step to create ‘Easter nest’ biscuits to share with our families.
Successful Learners Confident Individuals Effective Contributors
The Snowdrops have enjoyed exploring the senses during Science Week. Everyone actively participated in experiments relating to the senses, and everyone was very sensible when handling equipment and materials. The Snowdrops enjoyed using a ray box to look at colours and spinners to see the colours blend together. The Snowdrops were confident in giving their opinion during taste and smell experiments. Some Snowdrops were even able to manage ‘no peeking’ during the touch experiment! Well done, Snowdrops!
We have been responsible citizens working towards our eco target and learned all about different ways to keep ourselves healthy.
We learned about safe and unsafe substances and objects, and were successful learners when sorting images into these groups.
*successful learners* *confident individuals* *effective contributors*
The Comets have had lots of fun this week taking part in different Scottish themed activities and participating in a Robert Burns’ afternoon.
We have been learning all about the Scotland’s national flower and created these beautiful Thistle art pieces.
For our Burns’ afternoon we got our dancing shoes on and listened and danced to different Pipers. We then had a Burns’ dinner and had the opportunity to try haggis, neeps, tatties and tried a little bit of Irn Bru.
The Asteroids were learning about ‘wonky’ fruit and the difference between ‘wonky’ fruit and the ‘perfect’ fruit you find in the supermarkets. We were learning that misshapen fruit tastes just the same as perfect looking fruit and so to help the farmers, reduce waste and help the environment, we should try and use ‘wonky’ fruit when we can.
We looked at pictures of different fruit, identified them and sorted them into perfect fruit and wonky fruit groups.
We used ‘wonky’ blueberries, strawberries and over-ripe bananas in our smoothie. It tasted delicious!
**Successful learners**
The Comets enjoyed creating these shaving foam rain clouds. We gathered all of the items needed for the experiment using a list and listened to instructions carefully.
Before we started the children made predictions on what they thought might happen during the experiment. There were lots of discussion around the weather and what happens when real clouds get too full.
The children were all effective contributors and tidied up the equipment and their work stations afterwards.
We worked hard in December to design and create some Christmas gifts for our families.
We voted on what gifts to make and were responsible citizens by sharing resources.
