Willowbank School, KilmarnockSuccessful Learners
For our topic this term, the Sunflower’s have enjoyed exploring lots of healthy foods. Each child has actively participated by matching the initial sounds to the correct foods. Everyone enjoyed overwriting the letters and food names and decorated their food afterwards. We are currently making an eating the alphabet wall as a class as we go which looks fab! All children have engaged in our phonics songs and hard work tasks during literacy topic time. Well done Sunflowers!
Our class are completing National 1 SQA Signs in the Community, in school we looked at different signs we could see when we are out and about. We took part in a class discussion about what the different signs mean.
We then all enjoyed going a walk around the local community to search for as many signs as possible. Once we had found them we were all successful learners in identifying the information that it was telling us.
Successful Learners and Confident Individuals
The Sunflower class have been using money in real life contexts by taking part in our role play shopping game. Each child enjoyed using the shopping list to help collect items and add them to the basket. They also practiced paying for the items by putting the correct money in the till and taking their change.
The Oak class are learning about the different types of breakfast eaten around the world as part of our IDL topic work.
As you can see our class love food and there were smiles all around when we were tasting a small sample of a French and American breakfast. We had a class vote to find out the most popular breakfast, American pancakes with Syrup.
We were effective contributors when typing up an email to send to all the Willowbank classes. We are completing a whole school survey to find out which food is the most popular breakfast in Willowbank.
This week we have been learning about harvest and enjoyed taking part in some harvest art activities. We made a harvest wreath and a scarecrow face for our Harvest assembly. We also were effective contributors when making our harvest punch and attempting to make hedgehog truffles. They might of looked very unique but they still tasted delicious.
*Responsible Citizens* *Successful Learners*
The Sungazers have been learning about Harvest this week and how it is celebrated. We collected leaves and natural objects outdoors to make our own Harvest wreaths:
We went on a Harvest food hunt around the class. The pupils really enjoyed this and we had lots of great reading, talking, and image recognition:
As part of our Farm to Fork theme, as well as Harvest, we looked at the difference between foods that come from plants and animals:
To finish off our week of learning, we followed a simple recipe to make Oaty biscuits:
Have a wonderful holiday from everyone in the Sungazers!!
Successful Learners
The Sunflower’s all took part in our Global Goal activity as we focused on the difference between and empty and full plate. All children were able to add foods of their choice to their plate and watch it go from empty to full. We then looked at the difference! Most pupils were able to point to and name the food on their plate too. Some pupils were able to show understanding of a hungry and full tummy using our board visuals.
Yesterday, we had lots of fun collecting recycled resources and using these to make our own version of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate factory.
We were confident individuals and make choices about where we wanted to stick different materials, then had lots of fun painting our finished factory.
We have enjoyed exploring harvest festival traditions this week.
We linked this to our ECO goal ‘No Hunger’ and were responsible citizens, donating our extra foods to those less fortunate.
We were confident individuals and sorted different foods by their food group and explore healthy and less healthy foods too!
Confident Individuals
The Sunflower’s enjoyed lots of fun harvest activities this week. Each child actively participated by listening to a harvest story and pointing to the correct images. Everyone loved making their own scarecrow and enjoyed an autumn story massage. The children ended the day with messy play using porridge oats and chi seeds of different textures.
