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Responsible Citizens – Climate Change Conference

The Transition class had a wonderful Climate Change Conference day on Thursday. We joined with Oak class online to discover what Climate Change is. We then shared some tasks to do throughout the day to help prevent Climate change. Transition class were responsible for issuing an Energy Audit using our literacy and numeracy skills. We also discovered the food miles involved in our lunches using our numeracy skills.  Our last task was to prompt upcycling where we made some templates for a forthcoming whole school project. We met again in the afternoon to share our progress with Oak class. What a fun and busy day.

Delivering our Energy Audit

Online with our Oak friends

Placing food miles on our number line

Creating our Energy Audit

Starting our Upcycling project

Discovering food miles using Google Maps

Upcycling

More Google Maps

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Successful Learners – SQA Recognising Character

The Transition class were Successful Learners when they completed some more work on their class book. Before the October holiday the class used tea to stain some fake fur to represent the first time we meet Iorek the bear and he is working in a factory. The class compared their dried fur to original fur to confirm it looked dirty enough! They added it to their physical description sheet where they had coloured Iorek using warm and cold colours.

We also looked at Lyra’s physical description and discovered that she wears denim and can be quite grubby. We got some old jeans and matched them to the character Lyra in our story.

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IDL – Literacy – Food Comparison

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We chose our favourite foods and found out we had different tastes and preferences.

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Successful Learners – SQA Recognising Character

The Transition class were Successful Learners when working on their SQA topic Recognising Character in Fiction. They class worked on physical descriptions of Iorek the Bear from ‘His Dark Materials’.  The class noticed that fur (fake of course) that we had was too clean compared to Iorek when we meet him for the first time. The class had lots of fun staining the fur with tea.

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Harvest in the Pine Class

This week in the Pine Class we have been participating in some activities all about Harvest.

We made bread dough, which was great, a lovely sensory experience, great hand exercise – squashing, gripping and rolling!!

We have continued in literacy to work on our letters, this week ‘C’, looking for things around the classroom that start with the letter and making a Cookie Monster using lots of different shapes.

We have started working our SQA Communication Unit – Recognising Characters in Fiction, we have chosen the story ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear,  What do you see?’ to start with. We get to pick our favourite animal, work on our colours sorting, practice our Makaton signs for all the colours and the different animals, and we will make some very creative Art work.  Below is a link to a song that we liked.

Brown Bear Rap

We have also started our Numbers Skills SQA Unit, we have been counting whole numbers, we used the large building bricks

Counting while doing our MOVE Exercises, multi-tasking!!

We used the blocks to build up a tower as tall as we are – how many bricks??? Again, knocking them down is always the best bit!!!!

Fantastic Artwork with Mrs Mac

In Literacy we have been working on the letter sounds of our name and story sequences.

Working on our display for our theme board.

Friday was Purple Day – to raise donations for the Ayrshire Hospice, we came dressed in Purple did some purple Art and read a Purple Story.

The World needs more Purple People

We had a Birthday Snack time!!!!

Have a great holiday everyone!!!

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Successful Learners – Literacy Identifying Characters

The Transition class met Iorek the Bear for the first time this week. They are reading and watching ‘His Dark Materials’ and identifying characters and descriptions. The class were Successful Learners and had fun acting out Iorek’s different emotions which included grumpy and angry! The class used hot and cold colours to make a picture of Iorek with Mrs Macdonald and used this to add to the character description.

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National Maths week in the Pine Class

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.

 

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MacMillan Coffee Morning – say Hello to Percy Pig!!!

In the Pine Room we have been working really hard on our Literacy Skills, successful learners matching the letters of our names.

Sensory Play exploring different textures, exercising our hands – good job!!

‘A is for Astronaut’ we have been combining Art and Literacy how cool are our moon pictures?

Autumn Art pictures.

We have a large cut out of Percy Pig’s body – we thought it was funny!

We made Pig Masks too!

 

Our theme is based round the book ‘Don’t waste your Food’ we bagged up different foods to see what they looked like after a couple of week….nasty!!!

That was spinach!!!

PHEW!!!!!

Looks and smells and really bad!!!!!

Colour matching foods

Well done!!!

We have been working on the letter B, sounding the letter, looking for objects that start with that letter and creating some spooky Art!!!

The first cupcake is from the Pine Class, the rest are from other classes – aren’t there great!!!!!

Look at these great CRAZY Hairdos!!!

We had a lovely MacMillan Coffee Treat this morning – great interaction!!

Teapot Posers!!!!

What is in there???

Afternoon play and great interaction.

Look at the Ladies Cup Cake Hair!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

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Pine Class – Successful Learners in Art

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This week we were successful learners learning a new paint technique in Art – pulling the paint across the paper using a ruler, very effective BUT we cannot tell you what we are doing with it – it is a Christmas secret!!!

 

WOW!!!

I am a happy happy boy!!!

Ready for some Animal Boogie??

Making masks for next weeks’ MacMillan – responsible citizens.

Great friends in the Pine Room.

Sensory Cookery involves lots of skills numeracy – counting the cases, identifying the different objects and colours, working on our motor skills  and our MOVE  when we exercising our hands.

Oh no – they just jumped out of the tray!!!!

Literacy and Art – working on the letter ‘A’ – all will be revealed next week!!!

This successful learner working on her I-gaze skills!!

Confident individuals working on their matching skills.

Our fantastic 50 Things Art from last week.

More Literacy work – matching the ‘A’ pictures and  we love the Alphabet songs…

…..successful story sequencing.

Sun is out – so lets go bowling – STRIKE!!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

 

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Welcome to the Bluebells

We have settled well into school and are enjoying lots of different activities.

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We have made name rockets and put them above our SMARTboard. We made lots of “s”crafts and this week have been doing “a” crafts – we made alligators, apples and ants on an ant hill.

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We made a collage of different numbers with lots of different coloured squares.

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