Willowbank School, KilmarnockWhat a super time we had at Sports Day this year!
We were confident individuals taking part so well in our races. We ran in a flat race, obstacle race and worked as a class team to compete in the relay race.
We all did so well. Have a look at our photos!
*Successful Learners*
We officially started our dinosaur mini-topic this week in the Beech class. We learned the names of some dinosaurs and completed some research about our favourite ones. This was an art project that we completed using chalk and silhouettes:
On Monday we looked at titanic music and then did a few follow the beat dances, the comets did great with this! In P.e we did one last practice for sports day.
aon Tuesday we did some independent literacy and numeracy work and the comets have got so confident in there hard work. We also looked at sea horses and found out some interesting facts about them. We then designed our own seashores. We did our sports day on Tuesday and the comets did great cheering on the other classes and taking part.
On Wednesday we had our assembly and we had PC scade in to see the comets. The comets had plenty of questions for her. We then did some more hard work and in the afternoon we made our own animal masks. We also had our school photos.
on Thursday we did our local walk around the community and then when we came back we made our own chocolate spread and put it on toast. It was yummy. We then did too science experiments. One with skittles and water and the other with water, a food bag and some skewers. We had so much fun.
on Friday we did numeracy and literacy games and the comets did some independent work and group work. They can work so well together and have fun.
This week has been another busy week in the Bluebells. We have been looking at the letter “b” we made butterflies yesterday afternoon. They were confident individuals and used crayons and pencils to made marks and decorate the butterfly wings. Staff made different shapes on one side and some pupils were able to copy the shapes on the other side.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Daisies class enjoyed caring for a baby yesterday. We named the baby Olivia Rose and loved feeding her, pushing her in her pram and giving her a bath.
Science week. We have been participating in lots of experiments in the classroom. One experiment the pupils enjoyed was the rain cloud in a jar. All pupils can fill a jar with water then we carefully added the shaving foam to the top to look like clouds. Some pupils used a dropper to add blue food colouring to represent the rain. We all watched at the rain (food colouring) went through the cloud and then dropped through the water in the jar like the rain falling from the clouds in the sky.
Having great fun at Sports Day.
We were responsible citizens handing up the bird feeders that we made – hope the birds enjoy them!
This week’s letter is ‘V’ we made lovely pictures of vases with flowers in them using paint and shaving foam – very cool!!
Click below for the letter v song 
Have a lovely weekend
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Confident Individuals
The Moonbeams enjoyed taking part in sports day. They participated in three races and loved cheering their friends on from other classes.
To show how easily germs can be passed on from one person to another, one class member put green paint on his hands, to represent germs, and shook hands or high-fived other class members. We noticed that everyone ended up having green paint on their hands. This meant we all had germs on our hands! We did the experiment again and some people were given damp wipes to wipe away the green paint. This was to show the effect washing our hands can have on transferring germs.
We watched a short film about the importance of hand washing in different situations. The film told us that even though our hands look clean, we still can have tiny germs lurking there. Argh!
We made a poster to show when we should wash our hands and how washing hands can help stop the spread of disease and viruses.
Please click here to watch our Sports Day races.
We were all confident individuals and successful learners whilst taking part in some healthy competition.
