Willowbank School, KilmarnockResponsible Citizens/Successful Learners
The Snowdrops have been handling paper and plastic materials. Everyone enjoys taking turns to empty our class recycling bin into the primary corridor recycling bins. As well as exploring the different textures of paper and plastics, some of the Snowdrops can sort the rubbish materials as well.
The Bluebells class have spent this afternoon making 3D model shops for display. This is part of their class topic, Thistle Street.
With some support, the pupils used their ITC skills to search for the building shape, exterior material ideas, doors styles, windows shapes and shop fronts.
Everyone then experienced some time playing with the large lego bricks and building their model on a larger scale. Lots of imaginative ideas today! Super successful learners and confident individuals. 
Successful Learners/Effective Contributors
The Snowdrops have enjoyed interacting and exploring with our story the Glasgow Gruffalo. We have been learning lots of new animal Makaton signs and recognising animal pictures and visual aids.
Successful Learners/Effective Contributors
The Snowdrops have enjoyed pretend play learning all about what a baby needs. We thought about how we keep a baby clean and what a baby likes to eat or drink. Everyone was very enthusiastic about taking the baby for a walk or giving a cuddle.
The Sungazers have had a great day in school. They were all effective contributors during our Centrestage session. They each chose a prop from the bag and joined in with all of the songs. To fit in with our current Scottish theme we changed the words from our usual ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ song to ‘Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes’!
Parachute games are always a favourite and we enjoyed playing the Peapod game as well as bouncing the ball on the parachute.
Reece chose ‘Tiny Tim’ to sing about.
Leo hummed the ‘goodbye’ song independently once the session had finished.
Ryan, Jayden, Jamie and Lewis all enjoyed the rhyme about the cheeky monkeys and the naughty crocodile!
Disco time with sensory lights.
Parachute games!
The Beech class have been experimenting with the basic elements of line, colour and texture. The pupils were given a template and asked to fill in each area with various sensory items found in the art room.
I think you’ll agree that we have some pretty fantastic results! These images will be displayed in the art room to inspire other budding young artists. Confident individuals!
The Transition boys have been learning about Joseph Stella, the Italian born American Futurist painter. Stella liked to create a lot of abstract art using lines.
The boys had a go at recreating the futuristic looking artwork by using masking tape to make some resistance pictures. Super successful learners today!
We worked very hard to mix different colours during our science work. We were successful learners and named different colours, then predicted what colours we though we were going to make.
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The Bluebells class enjoyed searching for their houses on Google Maps. We explored all of our streets and pointed out our houses and other areas of interest. We had great fun doing this!
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The Moonbeams enjoyed their science experiment this afternoon. We made ice cream in a bag. The children concentrated while holding and pouring the ingredients. We explored what the ingredients looked and felt like before being shaken in the bag of ice with salt and then we compared it afterwards to see the change. The children also enjoyed having a taste of the finished result. Yummy!
