Willowbank School, KilmarnockConfident Individuals and Effective Contributors
The Sunflower’s had great fun last week preparing cakes for our MacMillan Coffee Morning. All pupils were able to mix ingredients to make icing for our muffins. We also practiced rolling and cutting icing and chose sprinkles to decorate our cakes. Everyone loved making pancakes and donuts too and used a visual board to make delicious topping choices. Eating them afterwards was the best part!
It was National Maths Week this week. The Transition class were Confident Individuals and had a good old boogie. When the music stopped the class had to strike a pose from the list of shapes. Everyone copied them expertly!
This is National Maths Week we have been doing even more counting than usual in the Pine Room.
We were successful learners and make some cool Willowbank buses, we counted the silver squares, added two wheels and a Willowbank badge and decided which of our friends we wanted to join us in the bus.
Amazing Work!!!
We starting working on our SQA Baking Unit – making choices of what we liked!
Continuing with our Literacy and Art Sessions and the Letter B – these confident individuals worked on some Brown Bear Pictures.
We have been working on our Food Theme – Don’t Waste your Food – and got some work done for our Display Board, bananas, bread, apples and lettuce, we used lots of different art techniques.
Reading Spinderella for Numeracy ….lots of counting and clapping not always in time!!!
Counting the GOALS for these two football mad boys!!!
A class number hunt.
But don’t forget the MOVE!!!
We love to count the blocks …and knock them down!!!
These Responsible Citizens were learning all about where to put your recycling, lead by or Vice-Eco Captain.
Have a fantastic weekend everyone.
We have been successful learners this week applying our maths and numeracy skills across lots of curricular areas.
Look at our great work:
To celebrate National Maths Week, we all completed numeracy tasks for at home and in school. We worked on our sequencing work, with numbers and patterns. We interacted with a partner to share our patterns and copy one another. We were confident individuals when taking part in all work tasks that were set.
As part of our topic work ‘Breakfast around the World’, we combined this with maths week. We were experiencing the country of France and learned some commonly used phrases as well counting 1-5 in french.
Within our class we are working on our cafe skills as part of our enterprise work. We are working towards improving our independence when completing jobs within the cafe. This week we focused on putting on our apron by ourselves and setting the table. We were effective contributors, all working together to get a good job done.
In the Oak class we like to be active and taking part in regular physical activity. We are successful learners when it comes to challenging ourselves and improving our physical performance as well as our coordination.
This is us taking part in our weekly circuit training session.
We are really enjoying our Alice in Wonderland topic. Here are some photos of our topic work this week:
Wehad fun taking part in a game of wonderland-themed croquet! It was really tricky!
We had some sensory fun this week as we made caterpillar slime and play dough using some fun recipes!
Alysse very much enjoyed showing off our caterpillars to the Snowdrops class who are reading the story ‘The Very Hungary Caterpillar’. Alysse was a confident individual as she was very careful when handling the caterpillars and confidently told the young people about the caterpillars and their life cycle.
In cookery, we made cupcakes and decided to make them into a Hungry Caterpillar!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Daisies class enjoyed today’s final maths activities. They enjoyed playing some interactive number games using Topmarks Numeracy website. We also enjoyed going on a stone hunt in the sensory garden for 10 stones. We then worked together to sort the stones into big and small categories.
We have enjoyed participating in ‘Maths Week Scotland’ this week. We have all been successful learners during all of our number and shape activities. Here are some of our favourite photos of the week:
We played number games via ICT
We explored position and movement using the BeeBots
Emma was learning about quarters using a PowerPoint on the laptop.
We built lego structures using numbered instructions.
We created a parabolic design using numbers and coloured lines!
We also had a maths quiz at the end of the week where we put all of our knowledge and learning of the week to the test!
We took part in a ‘Move and Groove’ yoga session where we created shapes with our bodies and then made shape monsters out of 2D shapes!
Finally, we used numbers to word codes and then created our own number codes for a friend to crack!
