Willowbank School, Kilmarnock*Confident Individuals*
The Sungazers have been enjoying Dance over the past couple of weeks. We have been working on listening skills, following instructions, and copying actions to move our bodies. Here is some of the fun things we have been doing:
*Successful Learners* *Responsible Citizens*
We’ve had a busy week in the Sungazers class! We learned about Road Safety and even learned a rap to remind us how to stay safe when crossing the road. We had some good poses:
We also learned about how to keep ourselves safe on Bonfire Night. To celebrate the 5th November, we made some healthy (and some not so healthy) edible sparklers!
Have a lovely Bonfire Night & weekend everyone!
This week we have been exploring fireworks and bonfires. We ripped tissue paper to make the flames on the fire and added strips of brown for the wood. We also make firework pictures with cotton buds we made lines with paint and then sprinkles glitter on top to make them sparkle. We also added icing to bread-sticks and dipped them into star sprinkles to make little sparkles. They all enjoyed tasting them too.
We practiced our fine motor skills by making s’mores by threading marshmallows onto wooden skewers.
The Bluebells enjoyed making food rockets, they were very tasty.
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It has been a very busy week in the stars class! We tided the planter and made some garden spinners, which we then hung in the garden. The pupils really liked hanging up the garden spinners they made. We did learned about some road safety and some hand gestures to remember how to cross the road safely. We did some fireworks in a jar, using food colouring, water and oil. The pupils learned about hot and cold items/food in science and did really well with this.
We enjoyed making some chocolate sparklers in class. We used bread sticks, sprinkles and chocolate and they tasted delicious! The pupils enjoyed picking pictures for the global goal poster and even added some glitter to it. The class then cut the pictures out and glued them onto A3 paper to make it really stand out.
Later on in the week, the pupils made a firework poster using crayons, black paint and whit card. We used a plastic knife to scrap away some black paint to make the crayon colours come through and they were very colourful!
Hope you have a safe and enjoyable bonfire night and a great weekend! See you all on Monday!
The Bluebells love being outdoor. We enjoy going to the garden on a walk. At the start of the school year we explored bubbles in the garden which was lots of fun. We revisited it this week using our bubble rocket launcher in the garden. The children thoroughly enjoyed seeing the rocket fly into the air and the bubbles that it produced. Some even tried to stomp hard to make the rocket soar into the sky. They enjoyed running and catching the bubbles and bursting them with their hands.
We had lots of fun creating some Autumn art with leaves we collected from the garden. We explore the different shapes and colours and then used them to create a mane for the lion. It was lots of fun. The children we confident individuals and able to choose which leaves they would like on their artwork.
Staff then supported by using sticky clear seal to cover the artwork to keep the leaves on the page.
This week we learned about the history of fireworks and Guy Fawkes during assembly and then enjoyed being successful learners working on our fine motor skills to create some firework artwork.
We were effective contributors when we participated in our music lesson. We were working on our rhythm and playing all together in time to the music.
In our SQA Signs in the Community unit of work we are learning about how to cross the road safely and signs to help us stay safe.
We have been confident individuals when learning about safe methods to cross the road. We took part in a class discussion about how we cross the road safely. We then enjoyed going out a walk and finding safe places to cross and demonstrating understanding of crossing the road safely.
Confident Individuals/Successful Learners
This afternoon, the Asteroids paid lots of attention to paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. His portraits of people are painted using different fruit and vegetables. They enjoyed finding and naming the different foods used in his paintings. We tried our own fruit and veg portraits on the Promethean board and then we used pictures of ourselves and chose which food we wanted to use for our own facial features.
Don’t they look great?
