Willowbank School, KilmarnockAs a part of Digidabble week the Transition boys used their literacy skills to look at song lyrics to try and recreate a well known music video. The boys sat in the shade of the sun to plan their story board. They then used a digital camera to film it on a different day. A link to the video will follow next week but can you guess what song we were looking at? No prizes for the winner unfortunately!
The boys combined outdoor learning with National Digital Learning week. #NDLW19 We went on a colour hunt in our sensory garden and used the iPad to take pictures of the colours we found. When we returned to the classroom we put the pictures taken on the SMARTboard so all our friends could see the pictures we had taken.
The Sunflower boys have been very busy this week using a range of different digital technologies. We use our SMARTboard daily for morning group and also for lots of different maths activities. We use a number of different programme to support our maths learning “Counting songs” regularly and this week we used the “Number run”. The boys really enjoyed the sound effect of the Number run programme. We also used the Beebots and pressed the buttons to make the Beebot move from one place on the mat to another. We used to iPads to play games and got to experience the story headphones to listen to different sounds.
We had our very first whole class outing to the Kay Park this week! We were very responsible and safe out in the community and took care to observe the rule of the road on our walk. The girls in particular looked after each other, which was lovely to see.
The Beech class are learning about poverty as part of our ECO topic. This has lead us to learn about different countries in Africa. So far, we have explored where Africa is and some aspects of the different cultures. We used Google translate to hear what our names sound like in Swahili and Afrikaans, explored African music and dance, made our own version of the South African flag, culture and finally learned a bit about what life is like in parts of the world that don’t have technology.
We were very responsible trying to think about what aspects of life are represented in each photo taken in Africa. All of the photos represented an aspect of life without technology such as plumbing, TV, a cooker or a washing machine. 
Exploring African culture through a music listening exercise.
Our South African flag!
After learning about how African life is different to life in Scotland we decided to try to design our own toys, just like they do in Africa, using only natural or recycled materials. We made a boat and a car! We decided though that we much prefer having technology. we are very lucky!
Starting to make Maasai warrior shields for our boys while the girls explored African jewellery and dress!
We had lots of fun this week learning through ICT and experimenting with different types of ICT equipment in school. #NDLW19
We expored lots of different games and technology-based toys!
The girls really enjoyed practising our poritional language through the use of BeeBots.
A QR Code treasure hunt! 
Touch Tronic numeracy app on the iPad. 
These turtles have instructions recorded on them which instruct us to find another turtle with a different number on it.
We used a digital timer to record how many baskets we can shoot in one minute…
The boys played snakes and Ladders with digital dice!
We used a ‘Chatter Block’ as a talking dice that told us upon rolling it which number to find on the ground and then instructed us how to travel to it!
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The Moonbeams class finished off Digidabble Week, with a final challenge. They were split into teams and had to go around the school looking for different technology items. If they found an item on their list, they had to take a photograph of it on their iPad. There was an additional challenge in that we were not allowed to go into the same room twice. This caused us to explore all over the school for these items.
This week we have been confident individuals exploring technology. We have carried on working our Australian theme… and enjoyed the lovely sunshine.
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The Moonbeams class had some Italian themed computer challenges today. They had to use Google to find photographs of Roman gladiators, Venetian gondolas, Pinocchio, the leaning tower of Pisa, Italian foods and the Italian flag.
They had to choose their favourite photograph from Google images, copy and paste it into a Word document and type a short sentence about it.
We all managed to complete these challenges!
This week for our Australian topic work we explored didgeridoo sounds. We made our own didgeridoo and enjoyed making a lot of noise. We were confident individuals in deciding our creative colourful design for our didgeridoo.
During Music we used sticks to work on our timing and rhythm to some Australian sounds, Kenny the Kangaroo and Kookaburra songs. They both had different speeds and the boys explored and demonstrated this well.
