Willowbank School, KilmarnockI have had a lovely first week at Willowbank School, meeting the young people and other Staff. We have made a Healthy Eating Display…then made Meringues!!! We made a Snake Habitat, danced, sang, worked on our Makaton, met Cooper the Therapy dog and had a wee Party!!!
The Stars Class were busy doing lots of maths activities this week. We explored number, colour, symmetry, shape and measurement using duplo and enormous bricks.
This week in the Pine room we carried out a variety of activities for National Maths Week: Counting our bounces on the trampette; Sensory Maths play using shaving foam and glitter; Sorting and Counting our Recycling; Singing Counting Songs and Playing Counting games on the ActivBoard.
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We enjoyed decorating cupcakes using vanilla frosting, icing pens and sprinkles in the cookery room today.
It is Amber’s 10th birthday tomorrow so we put a candle in her cupcake and sang ‘Happy Birthday’.
The Bluebells demonstrated that they were successful learners this week as they worked hard on a variety of maths concepts including; number, shape and size. The children enjoyed learning through active games and using technology.
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The Moonbeams Class have been very busy this week with our numeracy activities. We enjoyed exploring numbers, shape and colours during Technology time using the mobile magic carpet.
We sorted a range of 2D shapes using both the Promethean board and cut and stick worksheets.
Finally, we estimated and measured how long our arm was going to be, how wide the table was and how tall we were using interlocking pegs.
All the boys really enjoyed dancing at centrestage.
They were confident individuals learning new dance routines!
Mr Bark attempting the floss!
The Oak Class have been busy boys this week with all of their maths work. They have really enjoyed the variety of maths activities.
All the boys have been successful learners.
During this activity the boys had to know their directions as they were blind folded and had to listen to instructions very carefully to get to the opposite side carefully.
Blake and Jack had to guide Mr Bark safely to the end using their knowledge of left, right, forwards and backwards.
The boys then had to do a hunt following instructions of how many steps to get to the jigsaw piece and which direction to go.
They worked as a team to put the jigsaw pieces of our class together!
Enjoying the games during counting work.
Confident individuals during money work.
The Beech class have really enjoyed ‘Maths Week’. We took part in and experienced a variety of maths based activities. We did shape work, time activities, position and movement work as well as practised ,making patterns, with colours, textures and lego bricks. We were very successful learners!
Transition boys were successful learners by spelling their names onto the whiteboards. Well done boys!
