Willowbank School, KilmarnockYesterday was Bonfire Night and we enjoyed looking at videos of fireworks at morning group. We then had lots of fun creating different firework artwork. We used food colouring in droppers and added these to some salt pictures. The salt soaked up the colour creating a beautiful firework picture.
We were confident individuals making firework shapes and marks with our finger in glitter.
As part of our “A Bug’s Life” theme we have been exploring the garden and noticing the different plants. We all were confident individuals during our outdoor learning time and were all able to actively participate in planting seeds. We had fun using a trowel to put soil into our pots and then adding the seeds. We then left them in our outdoor area. Some of the pupils have been watering them and we have been watching them grow over the last couple of week.
Throughout our theme, we have explored different bugs through watching the film ‘A Bug’s Life’.
We were successful learners and looked at the characteristics of bugs and focused our attention to sort images based on whether the bugs had legs or not.
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 were successful learners as we collected sticks and stones in the garden in order to write the initial letter of our forenames.
We enjoyed some noisy music experiences on the drum kit to Queen, ‘Another one bites the dust’. Everyone participated actively and were successful learners when finding a rhythm on the drum kit.
All week our literacy and numeracy tasks have had a Halloween theme we had confident individuals who focused their attention to all the tasks that were set.
We had fun making masks and shared our Halloween art work at our virtual assembly.
We played some Halloween themed games and had to think of an alternate apple game this year. Much fun was had by everyone and they all participated actively.
Happy Halloween!
The Transition numeracy time took a spooky turn this week when the boys played a dice game against the staff. The boys had to roll the dice and see who could complete the most numbered characters. The boys were Successful Learners by counting the dots on the dice and matching it to the number on their characters. The boys beat the staff with ease!
This term the Oak class have been completing interdisciplinary learning through our Great Outdoors theme work.
We have enjoyed learning through the story, ‘A Camping Spree with Mr Magee’. Everyone participated actively in all the activities, the Oak class enjoy learning outdoors and being active.
Here are some of the highlights of our theme work;
Confident Individuals during literacy tasks. We made binoculars and played ‘I Spy’. We also enjoyed taking photos of the things we enjoy using in the playground. We had to share with our peers our favourite item, we worked hard on using speech and Makaton.
We loved building a tent and making a den, we were effective contributors, working together and having fun climbing inside.
Successful learners during numeracy, we used google maps to work out the distance of our house to school. Also worked out who has the longest and shortest journey to school.
We worked on our directional awareness through the bee bots and fun activities on chairs.
During numeracy this week we have lots of fun exploring little jumping frogs. We had to focus and develop fine motor skills to push down using our finger to make the frog jump forward. We then used bricks to measure how many bricks the frog could jump over. There were lots of smiles at the frog jumper across the table. All pupils were supported to push down on the frog to make it jump. Some were able to do this independently. Some pupils were able to count the bricks that the frog hand jumped over. We were all successful learners joining in and taking turns.
Today were were confident individuals and explored pumpkins to create some spooky lanterns for our class.
We were successful learners and touched the insides of the pumpkin, sharing if we liked or disliked the feeling. We all had great choosing when we picked our lantern designs and loved seeing the finished pumpkins!
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