Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe combined music and bonfire night this week by creating a small performance using gym balls, beaters and dance moves. We beat the gym balls using beaters in time to the music of Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’. We followed the dance steps on the board to go along with the beat and the song.
We’ve been learning all about Guy Fawkes, bonfire night and firework safety this week. One of our activities included taking part in a shooting rocket experiment. We were successful learners as we designed and built our own rocket ships using recycled bottles and paper straws. We then used the air inside the bottle to propel our rockets forward by squeezing the bottle. We experimented by using different straw lengths and concluded that the longer the straw, the further our rockets would travel.
Successful Learners and Effective Contributors
For each letter of the alphabet, the Sunflower’s class have been given the chance to touch and taste new healthy foods. Each child was able to practice chopping, grating, cutting and juicing of fruits. Our tasks included making orange juice, extracting seeds from pomegranates and making strawberry men. We all loved using a variety of fruit and vegetables to make a rainbow wrap and everyone participated by either tasting or smelling the new foods.
We were confident individuals throughout our theme work and designed our own chocolate bars.
We acted as responsible citizens and took turns with peers to pour melted chocolate into molds, then added our own choice of toppings.
Throughout our theme, we were successful learners and explored the history of chocolate.
We found out that hot chocolate used to taste very different, so made our own Mayan inspired hot chocolate by following a visual recipe.
Some of us were confident individuals and even tasted it, but decided that we liked real chocolate much better!
We have been successful learners and followed verbal instructions to construct our own rain gauge before finding a suitable place to hang it within the sensory garden.
Confident Individuals Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams have had a great Halloween. The children worked together to make some delicious biscuits and spooky ghost meringues. The children had fun taking part in some games. Take a look at our cool costumes.
Confident Individuals
The Sunflower class been able to choose their favourite foods during our ‘Eating the Alphabet’ topic work. Each child actively participated by using AAC devices and our SMARTBoard to choose their preferred food image when working on the letter ‘S’.
Confident Individuals/Responsible Citizens/Successful Learners
The Asteroids have been learning about road safety with the help of Super Cat. We had great fun listening to the story, joining in with words and actions of the safety rap, road safety games, sorting out safe and unsafe situations and making our own Stop, Look, Listen and Think signs.
Well done, Asteroids!
The Asteroids were all looking fabulous wearing their costumes this Hallowe’en. We had an astronaut, Beetlejuice, an angel and Cruella and her 3 Dalmatians!!
We have enjoyed some spooky activities. We voted on which eco pumpkin to make and got to work creating that and we made our potions using a red cabbage. Today, we started the day with some skeleton dancing, Hallowe’en corners, swat the spider, we dooked for apples and we made a scary biscuit monster this afternoon to have with our snack.
Happy Hallowe’en everyone!
