Willowbank School, KilmarnockIt was Science Week the other week and the Transition class were Responsible Citizens organising it beforehand and delivering experiments during it. The class wore their best lab coats and each morning delivered a different experiment to each class. The collected them all in during the afternoon to check them before the next morning.
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We enjoyed wearing superhero masks we’d made, had a red nose and spoon race and played a Blue Peter computer game. We particularly liked a red taste and try where we tasted tomatoes, apple, peppers, raspberries, jelly, strawberry custard, jam and yogurt. The raspberries were a little sharp and one person disliked red pepper but all in all it was a tasty success. We had a virtual meet up with other upper primary classes to see what red nose activities they’d been doing.
The Transition class were Responsible Citizens when preparing experiments for science week. The room was a buzz of activities. We filled lots of small containers for smell tests, labelled mystery taste jars, printed instructions and made short instructional videos. All set for next week!
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For Careers Week we pretended to be Domino’s Pizza employees. We prepared the pizza’s to order. They were very tasty indeed. We also learnt about other jobs and signed them. Being a firefighter was a popular career choice.
SQA Numeracy – we were building up bricks and counting them, and colour sorting beanbags.
Fair trade SQA cookery for these responsible citizens, using our skills to measure, sieve, count paper cases and get all the ingredients into the big mixer. We made Muffins, using Fair Trade Chocolate and Bananas.
Great results!!!
This week in Literacy our letter was ‘M’, we looked for words around the classroom that started with this letter – can you think of any? Then we made lovely Monkey pictures for our alphabet books,
SQA Communication we matched the characters up with their colours. Do you know which character in ‘Inside Out’ is which colour???
Helping my friend.
One of our Books for World Book Day was Dinosaur Roar, we learned interested facts about different Dinosaurs, coloured in our choice of Dinosaur….
counted the different dinosaurs, and walked in their footsteps. ROAR!!!!!
This week we National Careers Week, we looked at different careers we have in the community. Throughout the week we linked our activities to different careers – we have been builders, cooks, artists, designers, writers, historians and paleontologists!!!
Dressing up for World Book Day.
Miss Trunchbull this Superhero isn’t scared of you!!
Welcome to the Pine Room Christopher Robin!
IDL Theme Mr Benn’s story The Red Knight, we pretended we were Knights and Dragons!!
Then looked through magazines, made choices and then made shields.
Then these effective contributors helped their friend walk the Dinosaur trail – count up to 10, then count backwards!!!
Have a fab weekend everyone
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We found lots of goods with the Fairtrade logo and made a collage with rice, tea and lentils. We froze sliced bananas to see how they changed, played bingo and watched video’s and played songs about Fairtrade. Finally we made sundaes using Fairtrade bananas and ice cream and because it was Shrove Tuesday we added pancakes too!
We have really enjoyed learning about Fairtrade. We listened well to the powerpoint telling us about Fairtrade and why it is a good idea to buy food with the Fairtrade logo.
We familiarised ourselves with the logo and went on a logo hunt in our classroom and the corridor. We thought we had found them all but Mrs Smith found one the next day stuck to the window!
We looked at different kinds of food we can buy with the Fairtrade logo and were super logo spotters, finding the logo on the packaging.
We also made rice krispie cakes with some Fairtrade chocolate – yummy!
Another activity we took part in was painting using Fairtrade coffee! Most of us did not like the smell of the coffee but we enjoyed using it as paint on our super absorbent watercolour paper. Some of us thought it looked like parchment from the Ancient Egyptians!
The Transition class were Responsible Citizens when they undertook some LGBT work. We looked at the LGBT flag and selected colours to replicate it on a bracelet. We then studied some artists that were persecuted for their role in the LGBT community. We decided to use the flag colours to make some of our own graffiti work.
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We read the book, ‘I am Jazz’ and explored how we are all different but special. We compared our looks, interests and families. We created rainbow flags, had a colour hunt and danced to colour diversity, family and Pride songs. At science we did colour experiments. At HE we made tasty coloured traffic light sandwiches which we had for snack. On Purple Friday we created a purple octopus at art and enjoyed sensory handling. We had a very busy week of activities.
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This week we reminded ourselves to be kind to others. We made a tree of kindness, danced to ‘kindness’ music and read the bible story, ‘The Good Samaritan’. We explored how to care for animals so that they are well looked after and happy.
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