Willowbank School, Kilmarnock*Successful Learners *Effective Contributors
There are lots of places of interest to see in Glasgow. We searched for them online and chose our favourites. We watched a video of inside Kelvingrove Museum and learned that Dippy the Dinosaur had visited there.
We have been exploring different jobs people may have. When reading the stories we have been exploring the jobs people have on the island. We were confident individuals and completed jigsaws matching people in their work uniform. We had to pick the correct head, body and legs to create a whole person. We also dressed up and were effective contributors and completed some jobs in the classroom. Some pupils had hi-vis vests on and put rubbish in the bin pretending to be bin men. We pretended to have a train the class and boarded the train to take us to the shop where we decided what we wanted to buy. We also dressed up and pretended to go to see the doctor and she used the phone to talk to her patients.
Fine Motor Skills this morning, colour sorting and threading buttons…..
…..and wearable!!
IDL Art making Apples for Snow White.
See Art is fun!
So what’s the news??
….something funny!!!
Great sitting skills.
Great signing while enjoying Morning Group.
Come Boyle lets get ‘MOVEing’ and dance the Tarantella!!!
IDL Numeracy, identifying shapes and making some dwarfs…..
….dogs and houses – well done!!!
Aren’t our apples cool!!!
Sensory Cookery, working with pastry, sugar, cinnamon and apples.
Kneading and gripping.
WOW!!!!
Musical fun!!!
Sports Day Ready!!!
IDL Pop Art – using the Dabbers and Scented Pens.
Fantastic Sitting.
Looking at the Weather in Social Studies and Science – making a rain storm!!
….waiting!!!
Are you sure you read the instructions right Wilson???
Not as dramatic as we expected – oh well!
Sensory Play – good use of the Shaving Foam!
Art, spoons and messy play – what could be better!!!
Getting our MOVE on!!! Marching to the Grand Ole Duke of York!!
Sensory Play using cereals and plastic fruits…
…and using our fine motor skills to make feeders for the birds!!!
Have a FAB weekend everyone!!!!
Hope the sun shines!!
The Stars class were digging for dinosaurs in the sensory garden and we found loads. We also found frozen dinosaur eggs and used warm water to help the babies ‘hatch’.
We were successful learners learning about animal habitats. We correctly matched different animals to the desert, icy north pole, ocean, park, steamy jungle and woodland areas.
The Stars class visited CC’s Chocolate Creations in Kilmarnock to watch the owner, Carol, make fantastic chocolate bars and shapes. Carol invited us to dip marshmallows in melted chocolate. They smelled and tasted delicious. As Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is our theme this term we bought not a golden ticket but a golden bar of chocolate for class. Yum! The rest of the class will visit CC’s Chocolate Creations on our next allocated bus day.
As it was Robert Burn’s birthday we enjoyed a morning of Scottish activities. We dressed up in kilts and tartan sashes and enjoyed shortbread at snack time followed by Scottish country dancing. We danced to the St Bernard’s Waltz and Canadian Barn Dance before doing the Hokey Cokey in Scots. We played tattie boccia then finished by doing ‘turns’. We did ‘Buy Me a Banana’, ‘Wee Willie Winkie, ‘My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean’, ‘Three Craws’ and ‘Coulter’s Candy’. Lunch was haggis, neeps and tatties. We all had a grand time.
The week has been a busy week in the Sunflower class. We have started learning the songs for our nativity. We went a walk around the local area and visited the new Remembrance garden and the Cenotaph to see the poppy wreaths that we laid last week.
We have been busy making our tree for the wall display in the atrium. We were drawing round our hands of different green material and the attached them to the tree shape and added glitter to make it sparkle.
We read a story about how to build a snowman and then cut out the pictures and stuck them down to sequence the story using the pictures.
