Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class were watching Deadly 60 again this week. They were Successful Learners identifying and recording the location of the program and the main animals featured. I don’t think the class staff will be visiting Australia any time soon!!
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The stars class pupils helped to cut out shapes and followed instructions to build dinosaur pictures. We were very pleased with the finished result.
Some of the Transition class had good success with their literacy work this week. They proved that they were Successful Learners by working together to answer the questions on the next part of Peter Pan. Well done boys! 100%
The Transition class worked hard on their literacy skills this week and were all Successful Learners. Some boys wrote about their weekend, others looked at emotions in texts whilst a group looked at recognising themes in documentaries. A couple of boys were selecting pictures to add text to which led to everyone joining in looking at old pictures!
Learning with Sensory Cards, here we identified the object, touched the sensory part, made the Makaton sign and the noise …successful learning indeed!!
MOVE in my Pacer – changing the Board to what I want to watch!!
Identifying Shapes.
Literacy – using the Color Monster characters to help describe the characters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Lets have a wee chat girls!!!
Sensory Play – digging for jewels just like the dwarfs (although they did it in dirt!!)
Outside in the sunshine – a rare sight!!!
Let me help you with your jacket…
Numeracy, we used the story ‘Spinderella‘ this week, lots of counting and clapping!! We also had spiders frozen in ice – not real spiders!!!! We worked on our tolerance of having the cold ice touch our skin, counted the spiders, and identified the different colours.
Which colour is your favourite?
This is the Hairy Godmother.
MOVE – In our Standing Frames watching some counting songs.
Now a note from your ECO-CAPTAIN – reduce, reuse and recycle – well I think these responsible citizens have done all that and more!! Using feed bottles to ‘Feed the Birds’. We all worked as a team on a sustainable goal SDG 17 – hope the birds like them.
The birds need water too….
IDL Art for our class display.
Turning Art into Sensory Play Fun.
Ready for home – have you had a good week?
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
LAVA 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.
This week we were using different digital technologies. The children are confident individuals at using the SMARTboard at morning group. They are able to use the pen to overwrite their name and some can even use the tools at the side to change the colour independently. We used the Beebots this week and the children loved exploring them. They were able to push the arrow buttons in a sequence to make the Beebot move a specific way. Some were even able to remember to press the cross before starting a new sequence. They loved that the Beebots had a light so we explored them in the dark too.
We used the SMARTboard to play lots of different games to. Everyone really enjoyed the shape game. We had to feed the correct shape to the correct shape monster. They were successful learners and able to use their finger to drag the shape to the mouth of the shape monster. We also played literacy games finding the beginning letter of CVC words.
We also had lots of fun with a noise activated spider. We had to make a noise to get the spider to move the louder the noise the faster it moved around the floor. We were confident individuals working on using our voice to make loud noises.
Throughout our school week we use loads of technology to help us learn. See some of our IT activities this week. We also enjoyed our weekly ‘virtual’ assembly.
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The Stars class made fabulous dinosaur fossils. We measured ingredients to make salt dough, divided the dough equally among us and imprinted with our favourite dinosaur shapes. After allowing the dough to dry we painted them. Don’t they look good?
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.
