Willowbank School, KilmarnockEveryone today enjoyed taking part in a learning to draw activity through listening to instructions. We started with a letter and following step by step instructions, which turned the letter into an animal. Everyone was successful learners and actively engaged in the listening task and enjoyed shouting out the animal they had drawn. Everyone focused their attention when working on letter recognition and reading skills.
Cameron’s drawings are shown below.
The Stars class have been confident individuals this week as we made lovely cards and gifts for Parent’s Day. Hope you like them! We enjoyed the dry weather by tidying our planter in the garden and planting bulbs. Much digging was done! We had good fun in the playground and playing balloon tennis.
Today has been a very different day for some of the children in the Sunflowers class. However we have made the most of the situation. Today is World Down’s Syndrome Day we used some of the spare socks and took a picture of all of us wearing odd socks. We used crayons and stickers to successfully create our own pair of odd socks. We also have a new toy in the Sunflowers class. It is a huge hit. It is a bug that moves faster the noisier we are. We had lots of fun shouting at the creature to make it move.
The Beech class have started to celebrate World Down’s Syndrome Day already! We took a very special picture with some prefect quotes to share some love!
#DownRightPerfect
#DownRightHandsome
#DownRightBeautiful
Always.
And made ‘lots of socks’ cookies! 
Happy Mother’s Day to all the lovely Mum’s out there when it comes. We had fun in the Beech class creating a photo and designing a frame to give as a gift this Mother’s Day. We also made a 3D card to take home, we hope our gifts will make someone smile 
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The Bluebells class used their knowledge of ‘The Jungle Book’ to complete tasks identifying the main characters. We also went on a jungle animal safari hunt as there were lots of animals hiding in our classroom!
The Stars class were successful learners during science week. We explored many experiments in class (many of them very messy!) and also had a good time on Tuesday when we saw the planetarium, robots, engines and had fun with circuits on our STEM Science Day. We also had a fun Friday for Sports Relief where we took part in corridor activities.
Last Friday was Adam’s 15th Birthday – we all sang him Happy Birthday and enjoyed some yummy Chocolate Birthday Cake!!
We carried out a few different Science Experiments this week. We were successful individuals and made Cornflour Slime – it was great fun to play with watching it go from a solid to a liquid then back.
Adam successfully made the light bulb light up!!!
And so did Jacob!
We loved the Planetarium – watching the stars.
We continued to work on our SQA Unit and made paper plates of our Inside Out Characters!!!
We have had a camera problem – so not as may photos as we would like!!
We have also seen Jessica’s Sea Monkeys – WOW!!! Made a dancing man on a plate, launched paper rockets and decorated biscuits – hope you enjoyed them!!!
And had fun at with the rest of the Secondary for Sports Relief.
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The Bluebells class have enjoyed actively participating in all of this week’s Science activities. Today’s final experiment was colour mixing with food colouring. We predicted what some of the colours would make when mixed, then tried it out in our practical experiment.
We had great fun!
Today we came to school dressed in red or in our pyjamas for Sport relief and brought in a kind donation. All the infant classes gathered in the atrium – we had music and did lots of activities. We made a tower with red lego, pin the nose on the celebrity, red egg and spoon race and an obstacle course. It was great fun and all the Sunflowers participated in all the activities and were super confident individuals at moving around when Miss Hill shouted it was time to change.
