Willowbank School, KilmarnockLAVA LAMPS
All the pupils were able to help fill a bottle a quarter of the way with water. Most pupils were able to carefully add vegetable oil to the bottle and some pupils were able to use a dropper to add some food colouring to the mix. It was lots of fun seeing the reaction it made and watching the movements within the bottle.
The Sungazers Class love science and have all participated in various science activities over the term, making lava lamps, volcanoes, sensory snow, and slime. Their favourite experiment is making the cornflour slime as not only is it a good sensory science activity, it’s also good messy fun!
The boys are now able to follow the steps and make their own slime with minimal assistance.
The Sungazers Class have enjoyed exploring different weather types through various science experiments. This week we watched a video all about torandos then had a go at making our own ‘tornados in a jar’ using vinegar, water, food colouring and liquid soap. We even added some sequences to see them get sucked up into our torando. It was great fun!
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Presently we are unable to access our photographs to blog but we have been very busy in the Stars class.
We planted sunflower seeds in pots for the school meadow. They are growing well and will soon need canes to support them. We also planted sweet pea plants in our garden planter. We’ve built another wigwam for them to climb up.
We continue to enjoy our dinosaurs theme making salt dough fossils and a sediment sand jar to show how fossils were made. We created a mod roc head for our giant dinosaur in class and made dinosaur footprints to compare sizes with our own.
This week we are highlighting Diggable Technology in School , this also ties in with Article 17 of the UNCRC which states all children and young people should be able to access information, particularly from the media. Just now we are using technology every Wednesday to access school information via Teams for Assemblies, and we also get to see our friends in other classes on the big screen – Well done Mr Campbell, we think you should get a Diggable Technology Certificate next week!!!
In the Pine Room our favourite pieces of Technology are our AAC Devices, we use it to communicate in different ways, telling the Pine Ladies how we are feeling or making choices.
During Morning Group we are effective contributors and communicate our news to each other using our Big Macks.
Now at home how do you use your technology – do you listen to music on a phone, watch movies on an iPad, skype family members on your computer? Bring in some photos please from our information wall.
We have been successful learners in Science and taken our knowledge outdoors and planted our lettuce, spinach and some onions – in amongst our flowers!!!
In Social Studies we were working on SDG 17, sustainability and being part of a team.
Finishing out IDL Art ready for our wall display.
Practicing for Sports day.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Numeracy, Colour Sorting and Fine Motor Skills, for these successful learners.
Listening to my Friends News.
Science – Gardening Time indoors due to the Scottish Weather – hail stones in MAY!!!
Picking our pots…
Bulbs, stems and flowers.
The life cycle of a Sunflower – putting these cards in the correct order.
MOVE – Lift pants and making friends.
MOVE – Big Stretches!!
Literacy – Character Recognition – Snow White is my favourite.
This week’s Superstar! For great work and concentration in Art.
Sensory Play with Bread Dough – great for stretching our hands out and gripping skills.
I love these Flappers!!
This confident individual is working on her writing skills.
Have a lovely weekend – Hope the SUN shines!!!
Responsible Citizens
We planted nasturtium seeds in the garden, for Earth Day, and built a wigwam to support the climbing plants as they grow. We must remember to keep them well watered! We did recycling and energy saving activities plus made a global cupcake flower picture. We also found that reading a story using a torch is not easy so we had better not waste electricity. At science we did a water pollution experiment. What will grow best……..the seeds with water or the seeds with lemon (acid) water? We will see next week.
We were all so HAPPY to be back together in the Pine Room – Hooray!!!
Have you met Mrs McLaughlin, she is a new Pine Lady!
Our Interdisciplinary Theme is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, we are working on character identification – this is Sleepy!
And this is Happy!
Lets get moving and get our exercises done.
In Science we are planting and watching things grow – order your Lettuce and Spinach from the Pine Class – ready about June!!
Remember the water!!!
“I can use my Flapper to pat down the soil”
Ready for Assembly.
It was great to see all our School Friends and we loved this new song
“Hello…Mr Campbell”
Time for some MOVE – hand exercises and stretching out.
MOVE and Numeracy – making choices!
This successful learner is helping others with their counting skills.
Responsible Citizen – getting the lettuce watered.
BINGO!!!
An unimpressed winner!
Sensory Fun.
Getting ready to work on our Motor Skills.
“Hello! Welcome to the Pine Class, today I will be talking to some of the Students about their experiences so far this week”
” We had Fantastic Chocolate Cake today for snack – will that happen everyday?”
“I am having a great week and have loved seeing all my friends.”
“This coming to school is great!! BUT not as great as KILLIE!!!”
“No Comment!”
Shields sing us another song!!
Another Sunny Song to practice your signing.
Dancing ourselves Dizzy – MOVE Fun!
Some Storytelling after snack – think there was a goal scored??
Global Goal 17
World Earth day is observed every year on the 22nd of April to help create awareness about pollution and to celebrate the environment of our blue planet. Today we made lovely sun-catchers, kept the lights turned out (as much as possible) and made a parachute den, that we had a sing song in!! Click the link below to watch and listen to a lovely wee story.
“Happy Earth Day”
Again, using my multi purpose flapper for this task!
WOW!!!!
Look up !!
The view from the floor – Amazing!
Fun with Torches.
Pine Class Friends.
Friday Morning DISCO!!! What a confident individual.
Baby Shark Rap!!!
First week of all being together has been great, we are all very tired and ready for the weekend.
See you all Monday
xxxxx
The Transition class were Effective Contributors when taking part in an Engineering Challenge. For the first part of the challenge we watched an interview with Alyssa Carson who works for NASA! The boys are now trying to think of an invention that would solve a common problem before we send it to be judged.
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We have enjoyed participating in lots of Easter activities this week. We created cards for home and made mars bar tray bake which we cut in to egg shapes and decorated. We painted and rolled eggs, had an egg hunt and had fun with a Humpty Dumpty science experiment where we had to protect boiled eggs from cracking when we dropped them from a height. The best protection was wrapping it in a jumper! It was good to see Rev. Cameron at out virtual Easter assembly and we’re keeping a look out for the Easter Bunny as we hear he’s in the area.
