Willowbank School, KilmarnockSuccessful Learners Confident Individuals
The Moonbeams have been learning through a variety of math concepts this week. They have been identifying shapes and making pictures. They have been counting objects related to their theme. The children enjoyed making musical instruments using foods. They were counting out and measuring the dried foods using measuring jugs and pouring them into bottles of different sizes.
This week has been National Maths Week. We have been doing lots of fun maths activities .
Today we were confident individuals choosing numbers to create an abstract face.
We also did some role play. We love number songs and do them during our morning group – counting to 5. Today we were effective contributors and were the monkeys on the bed jumping up and down with monkey masks. We took it in turns to fall off and pretend to bump our head. It was great fun.
We were also confident individuals using the SMARTboard this week. We played a teddy game giving the teddy a specific number of cakes. He said “YUMMY!!” when got it right. It was lots of fun.
Certificates are in school bags today.
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The Sungazers had a fun filled week for National Maths Week with a lot of hard work happening. We started off the week with Number Brain Gym:
We created Farm animals using different shapes as part of our Farm to Fork theme:
We particularly enjoyed this activity! Creating patterns using coloured sweets:
We used technology to sort shapes:
All pupils worked really hard on recognising numbers and addition:
We celebrated all our hard work this morning alongside Mr. Dreghorn & Miss. Shaw’s birthdays!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
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The Daisies class enjoyed playing a maths game where we had to create a monster face. We used a numbered dice to help us choose which body part to use. We had lots of fun and were very good at taking turns!
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The Daisies class enjoyed a range of maths activities today. We split into pairs and helped each other complete some counting cars tasks. We had to add the correct number of cars to the hula hoop. We attempted to sequence the numbers 1-20 by popping balloons on the SMARTboard.
Finally, we went on a potato hunt around the classroom and managed to find and sequence the numbers 1-20.
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The Daisies class enjoyed a messy sensory play experience linked to our theme of Oliver’s Vegetables. We explored the potato and used potatoes to stamp some painting pictures. We explored mashed potatoes and added some food colouring and practised some colour mixing opportunities. We used a dropper to slowly add the food colouring and practised our mixing and stirring skills with spoons.
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The Daisies class enjoyed making autumn tree pictures. We used autumn colours – red, yellow and orange and created leaves on the tree using broccoli as our paint brush. We found this to be very effective!
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The Snowdrops showed a lot of interest in our Macmillan coffee morning activities on Friday. They participated actively in water play with teapots and teacups and they chose and mixed a colour of icing to decorate cupcakes. They demonstrated understanding as they followed the instructions to complete a pig mask to go with our Percy Pig mascot. Everyone in Snowdrops enjoyed the activities!
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The Daisies class really enjoyed today’s theme related activity. We used a range of vegetables to make a Mr Potato Head. We made choices of what vegetables to use for different body parts and are excited to show them off to our friends in the Infant Corridor.
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The Daisies class loved today’s numeracy activities to celebrate National Maths Week. The tasks were all related to our theme “Oliver’s Vegetables” where we sorted vegetables on to a rainbow of colours. We also counted vegetables and put a peg on the correct total. We found halves and quarters of vegetables and put them together and finally, weighed a range of vegetables and enjoyed spotting which was the heaviest and which was the lightest.
