Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe boys combined outdoor learning with National Digital Learning week. #NDLW19 We went on a colour hunt in our sensory garden and used the iPad to take pictures of the colours we found. When we returned to the classroom we put the pictures taken on the SMARTboard so all our friends could see the pictures we had taken.
We had lots of fun this week learning through ICT and experimenting with different types of ICT equipment in school. #NDLW19
We expored lots of different games and technology-based toys!
The girls really enjoyed practising our poritional language through the use of BeeBots.
A QR Code treasure hunt! 
Touch Tronic numeracy app on the iPad. 
These turtles have instructions recorded on them which instruct us to find another turtle with a different number on it.
We used a digital timer to record how many baskets we can shoot in one minute…
The boys played snakes and Ladders with digital dice!
We used a ‘Chatter Block’ as a talking dice that told us upon rolling it which number to find on the ground and then instructed us how to travel to it!
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The Moonbeams class finished off Digidabble Week, with a final challenge. They were split into teams and had to go around the school looking for different technology items. If they found an item on their list, they had to take a photograph of it on their iPad. There was an additional challenge in that we were not allowed to go into the same room twice. This caused us to explore all over the school for these items.
This week we have been confident individuals exploring technology. We have carried on working our Australian theme… and enjoyed the lovely sunshine.
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The Moonbeams class had some Italian themed computer challenges today. They had to use Google to find photographs of Roman gladiators, Venetian gondolas, Pinocchio, the leaning tower of Pisa, Italian foods and the Italian flag.
They had to choose their favourite photograph from Google images, copy and paste it into a Word document and type a short sentence about it.
We all managed to complete these challenges!
The Stars class have explored numerous digital activities this week. We enjoy using digital technology to learn and communicate.
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It is National Numeracy day and Digidabble week in school so we thought we would have a slightly different streaming lesson. We used iPads and went on a hunt around the sensory garden to find a range of 2D and 3D shapes.
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The Moonbeams class read an e-book called “The Goats of Anarchy”. It was all about a farmer called Leanne who had a range of animals with disabilities. Angel a little goat had poorly back legs so a pig helped her create a cart so that she could still play on the farm.
The pupils enjoyed this story and it opened up lots of discussions about how we are all different and unique but that the world would be a boring place if we were all the same.
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It is Digidabble Week in school and the Moonbeams class completed an East Ayrshire travel survey displaying how they got to school. We completed our information and used these results to read a pictogram. We used the computer to word process our information and used a phone to gather information about the distance from our house to the school.
We also used the Promethean board to help us look closely at the map of Italy. We found certain places and placed them on our own mini map and matched some landmarks.
