Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe 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!
The Transition class continued studying Peter Pan and all answered their own reading and understanding questions. The boys had different tasks to do and were all Successful Learners. We had two different ways to understand words. We typed some into an online dictionary and read the definition before selecting the correct answers on the quiz and we had help understanding that some characters were ‘looping’ as they flew when loops were drawn on the board. This made it clear for the class.
Some boys sequenced and matched sentences to help the class understand what happened in the chapter and in what order.
Confident Individuals Effective Contributors *Successful Learners
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.
It’s that time of the year already, when the Transition class begin practicing their sports day skills. The class were Successful Learners when they were learning the finer ‘points’ of the javelin. The boys copied the movements very well and throughout the week their throws got further and further. They also practiced their relay running. I think a bit more training is required to prevent the boys getting out of breath so quickly!
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.
The Transition boys put in great effort this week with their Literacy work. They were all Succesful Learners. They answered tricky questions on Peter Pan on the interactive board. Keiran helped us understand the word rummage by demonstrating it to the class. Some boys typed in answers and some clicked and dragged to make connections or sequences. The last question was particularly difficult, but with few revisions we managed to get a class score of 100%. Well done boys!
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This week the Stars class have planted onions and sunflower seeds. Hopefully they will grow well. We grew a baby dinosaur and explored frozen dinosaur eggs, We are creating a mod roc dinosaur head for our wall display. It will look good when painted. We modelled dinosaurs out of playdoh. Can you recognise them?
We have been having lots of fun learning all about the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
We were successful learners and answered lots of questions about the story then made confident choices to create our own artwork of a magic bean, just like Jack traded his cow for in the story.
The boys were Successful Learners this week when completing individual numeracy work. The tasks included balancing numbers, telling the time in different parts of the world, sharing a whole item, counting money and matching activities to morning or afternoon. Each boy showed excellent understanding and great effort at their numeracy work.
In the Oak class we have worked hard on our literacy, listening and talking skills. We have all been confident individuals when looking and describing what we see in pictures. We enjoyed looking at our self in the mirror, we have a class who really enjoy admiring themselves.
Everyone had to complete a portrait of themselves and then confidently stand and share their features of hair colour and eye colour to the class. We were very proud of the loud clear and confident voices used when talking to their friends.
We have been working on improving our reading skills and recognising the sound two letters make when they are put together. We were successful learners working on our own sounds and could roll and read the words.
We have had effective contributors working well with a partner to complete a jigsaw puzzle with some gestural support from an adult. Lots of great team work and problem solving whilst working against the clock to complete.
