Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class were Successful Learners when working on their SQA topic Recognising Character in Fiction. They class worked on physical descriptions of Iorek the Bear from ‘His Dark Materials’. The class noticed that fur (fake of course) that we had was too clean compared to Iorek when we meet him for the first time. The class had lots of fun staining the fur with tea.
The Transition class were hard at work planning their Healthy Cooking SQA class for after the October Break. They were all Confident Individuals when they chose a local product (Eggs) and selected a local producer. They then identified healthy and non-healthy ways of preparing them. After the holidays the class will prepare the eggs in different ways for a photo shoot.
It was Harvest this week in Transition class. The class were Effective Contributors during assembly where they joined in with songs with musical instruments. They also took care and focussed well making scarecrow faces. Pupils folded paper before cutting out hats, noses and eyes they added a little straw for effect!
The Transition class were working on their SQA Numeracy unit. They were all Successful Learners when they turned their traffic surveys into pictograms using the interactive board or building blocks. Well done everybody, some really clear results.
The Transition class have been Confident Individuals taking part in numeracy skills each day. We have had fantastic number formation and day recognition. Well done everybody!
*Responsible Citizens *Effective Contributors
We have enjoyed many Harvest activities this week. We collected groceries for the Food Bank, enjoyed a Harvest Assembly with Rev. Cameron, ground wheat to show how flour is made and baked bread. At art we created scarecrows, harvest wreaths and printed apple patterns. We played the glockenspiel, following patterns, to play autumn songs. We also make tasty apple punch.
Confident Individuals Effective Contributors Successful Learners
The Snowdrops have been learning all about the life-cycle of a butterfly. They really enjoyed watching the life-cycle story, matching and sequencing pictures/sensory toys, joining in with the songs and could answer simple questions as part of our class discussions. We also made beautiful butterfly pictures.
This week in the Pine Class we have been participating in some activities all about Harvest.
We made bread dough, which was great, a lovely sensory experience, great hand exercise – squashing, gripping and rolling!!
We have continued in literacy to work on our letters, this week ‘C’, looking for things around the classroom that start with the letter and making a Cookie Monster using lots of different shapes.
We have started working our SQA Communication Unit – Recognising Characters in Fiction, we have chosen the story ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?’ to start with. We get to pick our favourite animal, work on our colours sorting, practice our Makaton signs for all the colours and the different animals, and we will make some very creative Art work. Below is a link to a song that we liked.
We have also started our Numbers Skills SQA Unit, we have been counting whole numbers, we used the large building bricks
Counting while doing our MOVE Exercises, multi-tasking!!
We used the blocks to build up a tower as tall as we are – how many bricks??? Again, knocking them down is always the best bit!!!!
Fantastic Artwork with Mrs Mac
In Literacy we have been working on the letter sounds of our name and story sequences.
Working on our display for our theme board.
Friday was Purple Day – to raise donations for the Ayrshire Hospice, we came dressed in Purple did some purple Art and read a Purple Story.
The World needs more Purple People
We had a Birthday Snack time!!!!
Have a great holiday everyone!!!
The we had fun exploring floating and sinking in science. We chose a variety of different of items to put into the box full of water. The children were confident individuals and able to choose a variety of class items to put in the water and able to guess with pictures whether it would float or sink. We then chose different vegetables and guessed whether they would float or sink before placing them in the water to see what happens.
This week we have been learning about Harvest. We were confident individuals and joined the whole school assembly on Wednesday virtually.
We made ourselves into scarecrows by colouring in a picture and adding our picture to the face.
We were also confident individuals playing a game of pin the carrot on the scarecrow. Some were able to tolerate the mask covering their eyes it was great fun.
