Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe have loved exploring the school grounds and were confident individuals and used our senses to find different objects and materials to add to our journey sticks.
We focused our attention to discus what we had found and enjoyed sharing the finished stick with our peers.
In the Oak class we are continuing to interact with our friends and learn new card games, so far we have played snap and scabby queen. We have been effective contributors and participated actively during our games.
We completed our work on raising our awareness on climate change and the effect of natural disasters to people and animals homes. We were confident individuals when sharing our thoughts on each picture and demonstrated understanding of the situation in each picture.
It was fireworks night, we completed a lot of literacy work this week with a firework theme and then created these lovely bright pictures.
We are in November, so it is time for Christmas show rehearsals to start within the class. Successful learners when learning to play their song for the virtual show.
Successful learners all round during literacy, every one had their individual work to complete. Everyone focused their attention to complete the tasks set.
As part of a Communication SQA we are completing in class, the Beech boys and girls read a book based on the gunpowder plot and completed a range of fun activities based on the ideas surrounding the story, We were very successful learners as we all took part in the activities and enjoyed learning about the history of Guy Fawkes Night.
Friday fun!
Effective Contributors
This morning, we used cups and plates to build towers as our class team building challenge. We worked in small teams to make a tower each and then decided to make one large tower as a class. We enjoyed working as a team, taking turns and helping. We also enjoyed knocking it down and everyone helped to tidy up together. Look at our class tower, it was so tall!!!
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
The Moonbeams enjoyed listening to a story about a family enjoying Bonfire Night. They then learned some important rules about about how to keep safe when watching the Fireworks and using Sparklers.
The Moonbeams made some fabulous Firework Art. Take a look.
During outdoor time, the sunflowers class enjoyed using different coloured chalks to make shapes and pictures on the ground. We all enjoyed lying on the ground beside our friends and mark making on the ground. We are effective contributors and enjoyed chalking together to make lovely artwork.
The sunflowers class were being confident individuals and successful learners during outdoor learning. We worked as a team to build creative kites and enjoyed decorating them. We then went out to the garden to fly them. We were able to feel the tension on the string and move our kites in the wind.
Yesterday 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.
Global Goals 11
Sustainable cities and communities
We have been learning about cities and communities through structured play during class. We have been building different structures with various materials including sugar cubes to make igloos. All pupils have explored the dolls house placing different pieces of furniture into the rooms. Dolls have also been used in different rooms with conversation about what each person would be doing. Some pupils were able to name different rooms that would be in the house and the items you would find in each room.
