Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe enjoyed exploring sound using boomwhackers (plastic tubes that are different lengths) and a cajon drum (wooden box with a hole in the back).
Everyone focused their attention and were confident individuals when listening to soundtracks and playing their instruments. We all were actively engaged in making a sound and creating a beat in time with the music playing in the background.
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 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.
Made pancakes last week in cooking and today during snack we had fun seeing who could be the most successful pancake flipper!
Many were successful learners and managed to flip the pancake and catch it again, a few landed on the floor.
Then we ate some pancakes and syrup for snack, Cameron ate two pancakes with syrup and said, ‘Mmmmm, delicious’.
Next Friday we will celebrate LGBT and the acceptance of who you are, ‘Proud To Be You’. This is our class theme for the month of February.
We tried and tested our activity that will be completed on LGBT Purple Friday. We are making a rainbow canvas wall art, with the phrases ‘LOVE’ or ‘PROUD’. We will post the finished design next week.
We were successful learners in listening and following the instructions to create our rainbow design.
We have had two blocks at the Galleon for swimming lessons. Everyone worked very hard and were successful learners as well as being confident individuals.
Ethan, Blake and Jack have been swimming lengths of the pool from the shallow end down to the deep end!
Fantastic determination and concentration when taking part in their lessons.
Blake started to learn how to dive in at the deep end and Ethan has made great progress with his front crawl technique.
Jack has made amazing progress! He finished his final swimming lesson by swimming six lengths of the pool with only the support of a pool noodle! He was so confident!
Well done everyone!
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 finished off this week with a cookie bake off, we had two teams, two different recipes. Bring it on!
Healthy competition between the two teams, green team against the black team. No pupil wanted to be in Mrs Murray’s team, they have seen her baking skills!
We were all successful learners and followed the instructions to make the cookies. They tasted lovely but we need more practice on working the appearance of our cookies.
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’.
