Willowbank School, KilmarnockToday is the longest day of the year. We spent lots of time outside doing lots of fun activities. We made out own bubble wands and tried to put ourselves inside a huge bubble. We also went into the garden and made our own outdoor sensory bracelets. We made our own pin wheels and went out to see if the wind moved them. We also did some rubbings of different materials in the playground.
The weather hasn’t been our friend this week but we made the most of any sunshine we had by completing some fun challenges out in our garden.
We were very effective contributors as we each took part in a different challenge.
Here are some of our favourite photos:
On a Monday afternoon we are timetabled for technology activities, as a class we are successful learners and enjoy playing on the Active Board, and with the Switch it, and Melanie and Adam had a great time on the Magic Carpet this week – they were on top of the world!
MOVE and music in the afternoon has been great, Jessica loves being in her Standing Frame, Adam in his walking Frame and Melanie has been on her bike.
Cookery sorry no samples home this week, we all enjoyed a yummy cooked breakfast – sausages, scrambled egg and toast.
This weeks focus has been outdoor learning – sadly the weather has been cold and wet! We did manage a trip out to carry out our numeracy activity and count the squares on the big snake – hopefully we will get out today for our story in the garden.
Today Mrs Howie had a special birthday, so we celebrated with cake!!!
This morning did some Sensory Art and also met Mr Campbell’s dog Molly, as it was bring your dog to work day.
And the sun shone!!! We managed to read our new story book out in the garden.
Week topped off brilliantly by a visit from the lovely Sungazers French Café – great snacks – thank you.
The Snowdrops were all responsible citizens watering our flowers in the school garden and gathering lots of different colours and textures. We were effective contributors creating fun letter shapes of our names using the garden textures.
Today the Daisies were responsible citizens and used our fine motor skills to make bird feeders using cheerios and pipe cleaners.
We worked to carefully thread the cheerios onto each pipe cleaner then explored the sensory garden to find a place to hang them.
The daisies have been exploring colour and collected lots of different coloured objects and materials when exploring the playground and classroom.
We were successful learners and sortied the objects we had found into groups by colour.
The 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.
The daisies have been exploring lots of different aspects of science throughout the week. We have been successful learners and have used observation and investigating to explore chemical reactions, sounds and vibrations, forces and parts of a plant.
We have been collecting leaves from our sensory garden and when we went on our social outing to the park. We were then able to reuse these leaves to create lovely pieces of artwork for our display.
We have been enjoying the sunshine both in the playground and on our social outings. We have been looking at our shadows making them look different by moving our bodies.
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