Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Daisies class were very responsible on today’s local area walk. We braved the snow to walk to our local post box. We posted our letters to Santa and are hoping they will make their way to the North Pole.
*Successful Learners* *Effective Contributors* *Confident Individuals*
The Snowdrops enjoyed creating a ‘Do You Want To Build A Snowman?’ Christmas gift to send home today.
Pupils were able to select marshmallows, tic tacs, matchmaker sticks and chocolate drops to put into the gift bag. We also were able to count out the correct amounts for each bag and develop our fine motor skills in the process too.
We all had great fun making these gifts and hope our families enjoy receiving them too.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Daisies class had great fun with our science experiment today. We decorated zip lock bags with snowmen faces. We added 3 teaspoons of baking soda to the centre of a piece of tissue paper and wrapped it up. We placed the tissue paper parcel in the bottom of the ziplock bag. Finally, we added a cup of vinegar and then had to be very quick to zip our bag up!
We observed the zip lock bag filling with air and puffing out. We absolutely loved this!
Our work this week for our SQA signs in the community has been looking and identifying if places are ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’ to cross the road. We were successful learners and used our gestures to share opinions on places to cross the road.
We all agreed the pelican crossing was a safe place to cross, we waited on the red person turning to green and listened for the beep to tell us it is safe to cross.
We have been in the festive spirit in the Oak for a few weeks now. Everyone has been confident individuals during our class performance rehearsals.
We have been taking part in a variety of different Christmas arts and crafts.
Everyone is looking very proud of their art work, and rightly so, successful learners all round.
The Transition class were Effective Contributors when they helped prepare the judging for next week’s Snowman competition. Excellent numeracy skills were on show when they read Mr Nicoll’s plan and matched each snowman with it’s correct number. Thanks for your help everyone!
Following on from our numeracy lesson the Transition class used their baubles to decorate the tree. There were all Effective Contributors and started with the most common bauble (Gold) and worked their way down to the least common (odd shades of purple). Excellent work everyone, the tree looks lovely!
There was a Christmas feel to the Transition class SQA numeracy lesson this week. We took time to sort out out baubles by colour which was a task that related to their SQA Numeracy topic. They were all Successful Learners creating lines of each colour and then totaling them. We discovered that the most common colour was Gold with 12 baubles, followed by 11 Red baubles. There were a few baubles that were on their own. Well done everyone!
The Transition class were Responsible Citizens when they continued their good work with weekly recycling and took part in a litter pick. There were two new volunteers this week for the recycling.
Some of the class were on their outing looking at road signs and they took litter pickers and a bag with them. They were very successful at identifying signs and matching it to their photographs. They collected a whole bag of rubbish from the area just near the school. Well done everyone, what a good effort!
There was punching and boxing going on in the Transition class this week. It wasn’t a sudden outbreak of violence though, don’t worry! The class were Confident Individuals when they were using a die cutter to punch out box shapes and then fold them into a gift to take home. A lot of personal choice went into the colour and patterns used to make the finished product. No sneak previews though, you’ll have to wait until Christmas!
