Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS *
The Daisies class enjoyed looking at clips of Edinburgh Castle on Google Maps. We also watched a YouTube clip of a Minecraft themed animation of Edinburgh Castle getting built.
We used a rectangle foam stamper to print brick effects on our castle template and added windows, towers and a castle door.
We looked closely at the Scottish flag and collages our own to go on top of our castle.
Successful Learners
As part of our Scotland theme for the term, the Sunflower’s have been learning about Edinburgh. Last week, we had an interactive story about the Greyfriars Bobby dog and his adventures. Afterwards, we used a variety of fabrics to decorate our own Bobby dog. The children loved exploring different textures and adding the material to their collage.
Effective Contributors
In the garden, the Sunflower’s enjoyed blowing and popping bubbles. Each child experienced reaching, catching and popping bubbles and some children were able to blow them independently. Well done Sunflower’s!
Successful Learners and Effective Contributors
At the beginning of term 2, the Sunflower’s enjoyed making mud pie’s in the garden. Each child felt the sensation of mud on their hands and poured, moulded and handled mud to make a mud pie. We also added some water. Some children preferred using kitchen utensils to make their mud pie. Everyone enjoyed getting muddy in the sunshine.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Daisies class enjoyed reading today’s story called “Wonky Donkey”. There were lots of Scots words that really made us chuckle. We enjoyed the animated YouTube story and all took turns trying on donkey ear headbands and masks. Then we made a wonky donkey craft.
The Bluebells have enjoyed learning about activities that happen during a traditional Scottish Highland Games. We took turns trying out some of the activities. We tossed the caber, threw the hammer, played tug of war, threw the wellie and our favourite was hurling the haggis.
It was hot and cold this week in the Transition class during our Health and Wellbeing lesson. We looked at how our skin and muscles felt when hot and cold. We held an ice cube and identified different sensations that we could feel. We then turned a hairdryer on to feel the heat and identify those sensations. Words chosen by the class included hot, cold, jaggy and calm.
We then took advantage of the frosty day to go outside and bare our forearms to see how our skin and muscles felt. Everyone was very brave and even placed a frosted leaf on our forearms to feel even more cold! Well done everyone!
The second half of the Transition class had their chance to work on photo route cards this week. They were Successful Learners following last weeks’ photo route to find marked stones. They then set their own trail, learning how to make a route for others to follow. This is a skill that they will put in to practice when they compete their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition.
Following on from their neep preparation last week some of the Transition class used their neeps in their cookery class this week. They were Confident Individuals dealing with hot water and pans to boil their neeps before mashing them. They had to have a wee bit of haggis just to help the neeps go down! They confidently used the microwave, kettle and stove top along with different preparation implements.
The Transition class were Successful Learners when they worked on their SQA topic. They used character descriptions that they had made to identify characters displayed on the board. The class must have made very good character descriptions because they scored 100% in the identification quiz.
