Willowbank School, KilmarnockConfident Individuals and Effective Contributors
The Sunflowers have enjoyed a variety of Red Nose Day activities. We have loved making bubbles with our red hoop, sensory messy play with lots of red items to find and red nose biscuit decorating.
This week in the Oak class we welcomed back some more pupils to our blended model. We are counting down the days until we are all back together as a whole class.
This week we celebrated St Patrick’s Day and Red Nose Day.
Everyone was also successful learners during our literacy tasks.
Our Theme for Red Nose Day was using laughter as means to help us all through difficult times. Lockdown has been hard for everyone, and we need to think about what we enjoy doing and what makes us happy. We were effective contributors and shared with our friends the activities that make us laugh.
Some of the answers were hearing other people laughing and the others were listening to our favourite stories being read in an animated way.
Well we are welcoming back some Pinettes this week!
Monday, Numeracy and MOVE was our focus these confident individuals were building towers …and having great fun knocking them down!!!
Following the Rainbow Dots 1,2,3…..
Someone needed a rest – great sitting!
This happy boy was enjoying some new Singing Hands Videos.
So lets practice our signing and our numbers.
Tuesday – well we decided that because some of the boys wouldn’t be in for Comic Relief on Friday we would have some Comic Relief Fun.
Making Monster Faces with Red Noses, picking Superhero Mask …Guess Who?
Red Nose Cupcakes – yum!!
This Successful Learner is making choices.
Tuesday was a beautiful sunny day so we managed to get outside to the playground.
On Wednesday this successful learner practiced her Fine Motor Skills and Numeracy Skills.
Exercising today we were dancing to some 70’s Disco and ‘Danced ourselves Dizzy!’
Great sitting – Mrs Smallwood can we get a Drum kit in the Pine Room???
Another lovely day – out to fed the birds – tuppence a bag!
What a pout!!!
Friends watching a Snow White Story.
MOVE – Standing, Walking and Sitting practice!
Hiding from the camera!!
BOO!!!
We decorated cupcakes for Comic Relief.
Cool Cakes!!
Great spreading skills – yummy!!!
Making Choices.
One bite or two????
This new board is AMAZING – I feel like I am at Bon Jovi’s concert!!!
Hello Friend.
Playground FUN!!!
Guess who these Comic Relief Superheroes are??
Making choices and funny faces.
Have a lovely weekend Pinettes
Love
The Pine Ladies
xxxx
Effective Contributors/ Successful learners
Today was Red Nose Day. We all dressed down and some of us wore red. We tried on red noses and tasted different red foods. We circled either the happy or sad face to show if we liked or disliked an item. We matched pictures of all the special red noses for this year – it was lots of fun. We also had lots of fun and interactions with our friends in the soft play today – giving lots of eye contact and smiles.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Planets class enjoyed creating some superhero masks to celebrate Red Nose Day.
* CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Planets class enjoyed a Red Nose Day themed food tasting session. We made strawberry angel delight with real strawberries on top. We also tasted red apples, cherry tomatoes, red jelly, strawberry lace sweeties and red kola.
Peace, Justice and Institution
Successful Learners
The Sunflowers class enjoyed using a variety of sensory materials to write their name. We practiced pencil control and also letter formation using foam, salt, magnetic letters, counters and stickers. The children are aware of their own identity and are able to match and point to their name and photo each day. They can move their names from home to school during our morning group and spot their peers on the board.
As part of science week some of the boys investigated the browning of apples. They were Confident Individuals adding each solution to the cut apples and making predictions about the efficacy of each. We discovered that lemon juice was the most efficient at preventing browning, with vinegar a close second. Apple slices with lemon tastes OK but the ones with vinegar were a bit sour!
The Transition class were Successful Learners this week when completing their numeracy tasks. They boys had to sort tins by type onto a shelf and match times and timings to different activities. Great work boys!
As part of their SQA class the Transition Class have been looking at different board games and outdoor games. Before lockdown they looked at Dominoes and Kick Rounders. The boys showed that they were Successful Learners and how well they had learnt these game by playing them with minimal reminders even though they hadn’t been playing over lockdown. Excellent work boys!
