Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class worked hard on their ILP targets this week. Due to the Winter Olympics starting this week most tasks had a flavour of the Olympics. Tasks ranged from designing new curling tops, fine motor control over winter sport patterns, matching patterns and drawing winter sports by following coordinates.
It was the start of Chinese New Year this week and the Transition class were Successful Learners when they made some dancing dragons. They cut out heads and tails and folded paper to make the flexible body. They assembled the dragon on lollipop sticks to make it into a puppet.
Throughout the week the Transition class were Successful Learners when studying their class book. This week was all about favourite characters and reasons why they were chosen. Quite a few pupils chose the baddie! They all picked words or symbols to explain their choices. At the end of the week when discussing Lord Asriel, the class started to make an airship similar to the one at the start of the book.
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We enjoyed a variety of activities for Chinese New Year. We learnt how the calendar is names after animals, made fruit fireworks with apples depicting peace and tangerines depicting good fortune. We tried using chopsticks and opened fortune cookies. We had fun making fans and dusted the classroom to clean it for New Year. We created Dragon Kites which flew well in the wind.
We celebrated Chinese New Year on Tuesday. This year is the year of the tiger we created some tiger bunting for our board by colouring in a tiger picture and we created a tiger face using different pieces of paper. The children were confident individuals looking at the image on the board and then using the pieces to create their own face.
We cleaned the classroom, made lanterns and used black and orange icing to crate tiger faces on biscuits.
This term one of our 50 things outdoor learning experiences was to explore the feeling of being windswept. It certainly has been a week to experience this, we were all successful learners in making our Scotland flags wave proudly in the wind. Also experience our multi coloured cape flying in the wind whilst we ran.
As part of our topic this term, we watched the film Brave and carried out our own film review of it.
We answered questions on which was our favourite character, scene and whether we enjoyed the film or not.
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We followed the recipe by putting milk, sugar and vanilla extract in a zipped bag. We put this in another zipped bag with ice and salt. After taking turns to give the bag a good shake the milk froze to make ice cream. It tasted rather good and most pupils asked for extra spoonfuls!
What fun we have had today learning about Chinese New Year. We paid good attention to watching a family get ready for Chinese New Year on the board. We saw them decorate their houses and so we made paper lanterns too and decorated our classroom. We even made our lanterns light up as we enjoyed our snack.
After we made our dragon, we took them outside and used them as kites. What a great blowy day for kites!
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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.
