Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Daisies class enjoyed exploring some Harvest themed sensory trays today. We had a dry tray with lentils, frozen peas, pasta and green beans which had harvest themed pictures hidden underneath. We also had a wet tray filled with jelly and baked beans. We used this to explore a moving tractor and practise some tipping and dumping.
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The Daisies class enjoyed some fine motor skills activities linked to our Oliver’s Vegetables theme. We practised our overwriting using themed worksheets, we used play dough to make a range of vegetable shapes, we moved frozen peas using pegs and we completed an “I spy” task that required really good looking at a theme picture to find the objects.
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The Snowdrops focused on numeracy and maths activities this week. They participated actively in making patterns with playdoh, filling tens frames with bricks, exploring the seasons and counting out fruit pictures. The Snowdrops also enjoyed number stories, songs and sensory activities.
Successful Learners/ Confident Individuals
We’ve had a busy week, enjoying taking part in maths and number activities everyday to celebrate National Maths Week. During morning group, we took turns to complete some maths tasks on the board and during the day we included other maths related activities, including measuring ourselves with lollysticks, collecting stones and sticks and putting them in size order and we even made numbers from sticks. We played a shape game and had to try and make our bodies look like the shapes shown. As part of our IDL topic, we weighed different vegetables and predicted which would be heavier/lighter. We also worked hard working out the missing number in addition calculations.
Phew! Well done, Asteroids!
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This week we have been doing loads of numeracy activities. As well as our ILP work we have had an outdoor maths trail, learnt about clothes needed for different seasons, measured and counted ingredients needed for Empire Biscuits and made a rain gauge. We did size ordering, explored a sock box, played snakes and ladders where we used a dice and measured using large bricks. We had a great time learning.
The Transition class met Iorek the Bear for the first time this week. They are reading and watching ‘His Dark Materials’ and identifying characters and descriptions. The class were Successful Learners and had fun acting out Iorek’s different emotions which included grumpy and angry! The class used hot and cold colours to make a picture of Iorek with Mrs Macdonald and used this to add to the character description.
The Transition class were Successful Learners when working on their numeracy outcomes. The class had completed a traffic survey and used their results to make a pictogram showing the number and type of vehicles passing the school in ten minutes.
The class also worked on their own targets of number identification, diary making and positional language.
The Transition class were Effective Contributors when they started to explore Scotland’s food. They all worked together to match well-known Scottish food to it’s area of production. They then looked at eggs and discussed different ways of cooking with them and which is considered healthy and which is considered unhealthy. They all had a cracking time and eggcelled at the task.
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The Sunflower’s have been extremely busy with lots of math’s activities this week. We have focused on building and writing the numbers 1-20 and have made counting sensory bags to help us show the correct number. Each child has also participated in an outdoor number hunt where collected outdoor item. Everyone engaged in colour and shape matching tasks and interactive board songs too!
The Transition class were Responsible Citizens this week when they worked on their own individual targets. Targets ranged from helping with school chores, washing face and hands, working in groups and choosing self regulation items. Everyone was very focused.
