Willowbank School, KilmarnockIt was the final week in the Oak class for the year.
We are very proud of everyone and we have had lots of fun learning together this year. We are all confident individuals and have been successful learners throughout the full year!
Now it is time to have a break and get ready for more great progress to be made next year.
Relax, have fun and stay safe this Summer!
*Successful Learners
We made butterfly cakes to celebrate our success at prizegiving. They were really tasty. We also had a great time at the Singing Hands Beach Party. We dressed up and enjoyed singing, dancing, actions and afterwards, ice lollies! Fantastic Day.
Today we celebrated the end of year with our annual Prize-giving. We have a room filled with successful learners and confident individuals. There have been lots of personal improvements this year despite the interruption to their education. We are very proud of everyone, a massive well done Oak Class. You have made us proud!
We have been learning all about Goldilocks and the three bears.
We looked at the different sized bowls, beds and chairs and matched them to the correct bear. It was lots of fun and then we made beds for each of the bears in the story. One was a BIG bed for Daddy bear, one was a small bed for baby and and one was medium sized bed for Mummy bear. Some of the children were able to tell me which chair, bowl and bed Goldilocks preferred.
The Bluebells experienced the rain last week. We made cloud viewers and went out to look at the sky and experience the rain on our face. The rain was not heavy so we did not manage to splash in any puddles. We also explored how rain is created by completing the rain in a jar science experiment.
Global Goal 16
Peace, justice and strong institutions.
We voted for a class president and vice president to help with some helper jobs and be effective contributors in the class. We were able to make posters saying vote for and our name. We chose pictures for them and were confident individuals able to hold then up for all the class to see. We voted using a ballot paper with pictures of everyone on it. We then counted the votes to see who won.
We have been completing lots of great outdoor learning activities for POLO day. We enjoyed exploring the water wheel for science and playing games with water balloons. We also had our snack outside and had fun with the parachute and making dens.
*Confident Individuals *Effective Contributors
We did some activities this week ahead of POLO Day. We painted patterns with water and watered our planter where we are growing onions, potatoes, carrots, strawberries, nasturtiums and sweet peas. Our gladioli bulbs are starting to grow too. We made symmetrical butterfly pictures in anticipation of making a large symmetrical floor pattern today. Today we also made a water wheel (which worked really well!) and created nature’s crowns.
The Transition class were Successful Learners when they extended their numeracy task by sending each other for different amounts of fruit. The boys had to be careful and check they had the correct number of items before delivering it to their classmates.
The Transition class were working towards the end of Peter Pan this week. They were Successful Learners using their literacy skills to listen to the audio from the digital book and using their fine motor skills to dot paint a picture. This will help them further develop their writing motor skills. We chose to paint Captain Hook, he is our favourite baddy!
