Willowbank School, Kilmarnock*Successful Learners *Responsible Citizens
We found lots of goods with the Fairtrade logo and made a collage with rice, tea and lentils. We froze sliced bananas to see how they changed, played bingo and watched video’s and played songs about Fairtrade. Finally we made sundaes using Fairtrade bananas and ice cream and because it was Shrove Tuesday we added pancakes too!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Daisies class enjoyed focusing on Careers Week during today’s activities. We read a story called “Career Day’, watched a song showing the A-Z of jobs and participated in a reveal the job PowerPoint.
Some of us matched some familiar job symbols and others had to identify the career using the equipment as a clue to help us.
Finally we enjoyed a roleplay session where we acted out a range of jobs including police officers, fire fighters, nurses, vets and scientists.
We have really enjoyed learning about Fairtrade. We listened well to the powerpoint telling us about Fairtrade and why it is a good idea to buy food with the Fairtrade logo.
We familiarised ourselves with the logo and went on a logo hunt in our classroom and the corridor. We thought we had found them all but Mrs Smith found one the next day stuck to the window!
We looked at different kinds of food we can buy with the Fairtrade logo and were super logo spotters, finding the logo on the packaging.
We also made rice krispie cakes with some Fairtrade chocolate – yummy!
Another activity we took part in was painting using Fairtrade coffee! Most of us did not like the smell of the coffee but we enjoyed using it as paint on our super absorbent watercolour paper. Some of us thought it looked like parchment from the Ancient Egyptians!
Today we were confident individuals and used Augmented Reality to learn about different dinosaurs. We looked through the iPad camera and saw different kinds of dinosaurs walking around our class!
We were successful learners by applying our knowledge to label diagrams showing the features of different dinosaurs.
Yesterday we were confident individuals and made pancakes. We mixed the ingredients and then helped to flip the pancakes.
Today we got to choose a topping for the pancakes and then enjoyed eating our pancakes for snack.
Successful Learners Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams have been learning about what it means to be fair. The children identified some Fairtrade foods that they enjoy eating such as chocolate and bananas. They enjoyed exploring coffee, sugar and rice sensory trays. The Moonbeams had a competition to make a cake using Fairtrade ingredients. Take a look at our fabulous cakes.
Confident Individuals
The Sunflower’s thoroughly enjoyed pancake day by creating their own pancake designs. Each child was able to choose their own pancake and decorate it with fruit and a sauce of their choice. Some pupils were able to taste new foods. We also enjoyed making our own pancake cut and stick faces.
We have been learning about fairtrade. We listened to a story about the journey of a fairtrade banana and enjoyed exploring peeling, cutting, mashing and tasting banana. We explored how the skin looked different on the inside and outside. We loved using the masher and watched how the banana texture changed from dry to wet
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The Daisies have enjoyed following a visual recipe to make yummy pancakes. We were confident individuals when flipping our pancakes. We choose a delicious toppings to try our pancakes during snack.
Spring Chickens!
The Oak class have been investigating the use of texture in art. Texture simply means how something feels when it is touched.
These fabulous spring chickens feel, soft, fluffy, bumpy and shiny.
Lots of excellent engagement today. Well done to these confident individuals. Keep up the good work!
