Willowbank School, KilmarnockSuccessful Learners Confident Individuals
The Snowdrops have enjoyed learning about the Festival of Holi this week. They showed lots of interest in a video about the colourful celebrations that take place during the festival. The Snowdrops then participated in splatter painting to create colourful cards to wish everyone ‘Happy Holi’.
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We watched a selection of video’s and a powerpoint to tell us about the Hindu festival of colour. We particularly liked the thought of throwing powder paint at each other! We created a cosmic suncatcher using plastic lids, glue and food colouring. Once dried they should look great hung up on our classroom windows.
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As part of our many Science Week tasks, the Sunflower’s loved extracting dinosaurs from ice blocks and eggs. After learning about how dinosaurs grow and hatch from eggs, each child engaged in sensory play and used tools to try and chisel the dinosaurs free. Some children decided to try and break or melt the ice to collect their dinosaurs and it was great to compare the difference in melting ice using both hot and cold water. We noticed that larger blocks of ice took much longer to melt. Good job Sunflowers!
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The Sunflower’s have been learning all about the importance of good health and well-being with a focus on dental hygiene. All pupils were able to listen to the teeth brushing song and engage by pointing to their teeth. Most pupils were able to brush a false set of teeth thoroughly with a brush and toothpaste. Some pupils made a social story independently by putting the steps of tooth brushing in the correct order during a sequencing game. Great Work Sunflowers!!
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The Sunflower’s celebrated the Fairtrade Fortnight by learning all about the Fairtrade badge and where Fairtrade products come from. Each child was able to select the Fairtrade logo on products displayed on our board. Afterwards, they tasted the foods and used symbols and visual cards to decide whether they liked or disliked the foods.
The Daises are enjoying this terms theme all about dinosaurs. We have been exploring how shadows are created. We used a torch to shine on a variety of different types of dinosaur to see how their shadows look. Some of the boys loved experimenting with the direction of the light to show how the shadows changed. They moved the torch closer and further away from the dinosaur and we saw how the shadows shrunk and grew.
The Oak Class are finding out about traditional childhood toys. Today our confident individuals used varied materials to create a model of a historic toy.
Check out these fabulous paper rocking horses!
Well done everyone!
The Daisies have enjoyed learning about the Hindi festival of Holi. The boys loved that it was a colourful festival. We burst balloons filled with colourful powder to make colourful explosions and enjoyed mark making in the powder. We made Holi flowers using colourful rice.
There was a lot of focus in the cookery room this week. The Transition class were Confident Individuals when they tried to make the neatest sandwich. The class worked on their motor skills by spreading, slicing, grating, squeezing and finally cutting before enjoying a cheese and ham sandwich. The sandwiches would be too dry on their own, cups of tea had to be made!
During our Health and Wellbeing time the Transition class took the time to take a break from Science Week prep. We took part in an African Safari Yoga. Everyone used their special binoculars to look at their class mates doing a yoga pose. They had to guess which part of our safari it represented. We had lions, zebra, snakes, elephants and mountains to name a few.
