Willowbank School, Kilmarnock*Responsible Citizens* *Successful Learners*
Over Fair Trade Fortnight, we have been learning about Fair trade and what it means for us. We are now able to recognise the Fair Trade logo so can have a look for it when we visit the supermarket! We used Fair Trade lemons and sugar to make our own lemonade.
*Responsible Citizens *Successful Learners *Effective Contributors
For Careers Week we pretended to be Domino’s Pizza employees. We prepared the pizza’s to order. They were very tasty indeed. We also learnt about other jobs and signed them. Being a firefighter was a popular career choice.
The Asteroids looked at different jobs this afternoon, specifically people who help us.
We paid attention and took part in chatting about where we can see/find people who do these jobs and how and when they might help us.
We had a great time dressing up! Our favourites were Police Officers and Firefighters!
SQA Numeracy – we were building up bricks and counting them, and colour sorting beanbags.
Fair trade SQA cookery for these responsible citizens, using our skills to measure, sieve, count paper cases and get all the ingredients into the big mixer. We made Muffins, using Fair Trade Chocolate and Bananas.
Great results!!!
This week in Literacy our letter was ‘M’, we looked for words around the classroom that started with this letter – can you think of any? Then we made lovely Monkey pictures for our alphabet books,
SQA Communication we matched the characters up with their colours. Do you know which character in ‘Inside Out’ is which colour???
Helping my friend.
One of our Books for World Book Day was Dinosaur Roar, we learned interested facts about different Dinosaurs, coloured in our choice of Dinosaur….
counted the different dinosaurs, and walked in their footsteps. ROAR!!!!!
This week we National Careers Week, we looked at different careers we have in the community. Throughout the week we linked our activities to different careers – we have been builders, cooks, artists, designers, writers, historians and paleontologists!!!
Dressing up for World Book Day.
Miss Trunchbull this Superhero isn’t scared of you!!
Welcome to the Pine Room Christopher Robin!
IDL Theme Mr Benn’s story The Red Knight, we pretended we were Knights and Dragons!!
Then looked through magazines, made choices and then made shields.
Then these effective contributors helped their friend walk the Dinosaur trail – count up to 10, then count backwards!!!
Have a fab weekend everyone
x
Successful Learners
For Careers Week, the Sunflower’s enjoyed matching occupations with their related tools. Each child was able to select the correct job and the tools that were needed to complete the job. Everyone enjoyed uncovering photos of occupations on the interactive board and each child got to select an occupation and watch a short video.
This week we have been learning about Fairtrade.
we looked for the Fairtrade logo on items then used used some Fairtrade items -chocolate and bananas to made some yummy cupcakes. We also explored lots of dry sensory materials and used these to create a lovely sensory picture. We also reused all of our wrappers and collaged a handprint shape with all the wrappers and Fairtrade pictures.
This week it was world book day and the comets did not disappoint! We had Willy Wonker, a police man, a Minecraft man, and not 1, but two spidermen! Comets found out why we do world book day and then we looked at books, picked one we liked and read it to each other. They then got to take the book home to share with their family.
we looked at LGBT history and all the reasons we celebrate LGBT. We then coloured in our own LGBT flags and LGBT themed pictures.
Using Fairtrade chocolate we made rice crispies and made a mess in the process. Comets cleaned up after themselves and enjoyed their wee treat after they made them. We looked at a video on how chocolate was made.
We did some numeracy and literacy games to make us more confident in these areas and we also did some numeracy and literacy hard work in relation to Fairtrade.
Some of the comets did some eco saving activities. We did some litter picking, turning off lights and recycling. The comets did great with this.
On Wednesday the comets were with Mrs McDonald and they made titanic posters…. They look amazing and our displayed in our classroom for everyone to see.
Well done comets for a great week and have a super weekend. See you Monday.
Yesterday was World Book Day we started the day exploring lots of books. We were confident individuals handling the books with care and turning the pages. We went on a book hunt in the garden to find more books and enjoyed exploring these when we got back to class. We made bookmarks by making marks with crayons and some of the pupils were effective contributors collecting all the materials needed. The staff dressed up as characters from the Little Miss books so we did some Little Miss colouring and matching. We also enjoyed a lovely bookbug session exploring a new sensory book and we loved touching each page to feel the different textures.
*Confident Individuals*
We had a lovely day on Thursday celebrating World Book Day! Some of us dressed up as our favourite characters and we all completed a variety of activities based on some known and loved stories.
We had a book and fairytale quiz, a game of ‘guess who/what’, made a character mask for our friends, had a game of book bingo and a character scavenger hunt!
*Confident Individuals* *Successful Learners*
We have started our brand new ‘Ancient Egypt’ topic in the Beech class!
We have already explored mummification and the pyramids as well as hieroglyphics!
Here are some of our favourite photos of us attempting to reconstruct the pyramids with different media during a STEAM session and going through the mummification process whilst learning about our internal organs!
