Willowbank School, KilmarnockEarth Day
The Sungazers celebrated World Earth Day by watching a video clip Earth Hour 21 Official Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHLS7JlSoJ8.
We also created our own ‘Earth Day Handprint Keepsake’ to remind us about the need to protect our environment so that it is a better place to live.
We urge you to take part and support the cause at home by switching off the lights for Earth hour at 8.30 pm on Saturday 27th March.
We are very happy to have almost the everyone within the Oak class back for their first full week!
We have jumped straight back into our usual routine and back on top of things with a very busy week filled with lots of hard work.
They have all been confident individuals in all the tasks that have been set.
In literacy we have completed lots of listening and comprehension tasks, along with working on our reading and forming sentences in a logical order.
This week in numeracy we have been recapping and checking our knowledge on our time and money work.
We love to be very active in the Oak class and we have enjoyed lots of sensory movement breaks to help us refocus between all our hard work tasks. Here we have two very flexible young men taking part in our yoga session. We do yoga every day before we have lunch.
This week as part of our Health and Well-being work and Rights Respecting School we have been thinking about talking about what makes a good friend. Everyone confidently identified their friend then gave some great answers as to why they are their friend.
We have been working on our individual activities that have been set for us to help improve our fine motor skills and hand grip.
The Sungazers have been ‘Effective Contributors’ as we took part in the Big Pedal challenge this week. We all enjoyed the walking, wheeling and scooting challenge in the playground. We have used a variety of bikes and scooters to travel around the playground and enjoyed taking part in our daily mile as always. Some also enjoyed a well earned rest at the end.
Confident Individuals Effective Contributors
We cut egg shapes out of a Mars Bar Tray Bake, using cutters. After decorating them with melted chocolate and colourful sweets we took them home to show our families. They were very tasty indeed.
Successful Learners Responsible Citizens Confident Individuals Effective Contributors
We chose photographs and created an Article 17 poster showing that children have a right to get information that is important to their health and well-being. We watched Newsround to get current information about Covid 19 and did activities relating to this issue and how to keep safe and happy.
Successful Learners, Effective Contributors & MOVE
The Beech class have had a fun filled week before the Easter holidays. We made some lovely Easter crafts & gifts for our loved ones (we hope you like them!) We had a games afternoon on our final Vscene with Miss Woodburn before the holidays, where we had to get moving around the classroom. We’ve also been on a couple of Easter related hunts throughout the week to keep our bodies moving & our minds active!
Have a wonderful holiday everyone! We look forward to seeing you all again after your well-deserved break 
A surprise visit from the Easter Bunny!!
We enjoyed a playing balloon volleyball with our class friends, some of our boys are working on their fear of balloons. They did very well playing this game, and were effective contributors when working as a team to keep the balloon off the ground.
We made some Easter masks, we were successful learners when completing this task. We were working on our literacy to colour our masks. We were listening to a three step instruction and also our fine motor skills.
We enjoyed taking part in some Easter art activities, everyone in the Oak class hope that you all have ‘A CRACKING EASTER’.
We also had to work on our reading skills, we cracked open our eggs and read the action. We enjoyed performing these to music, we found the wheelbarrow fun but hard work!
Then we had an egg hunt in the class, some of the class friends enjoyed sitting watching the hunt and waiting on the chocolate eggs being brought to them to eat! Team work, I think!
Have a lovely Easter and we look forward to being back together soon!
Confident Individuals
The Moonbeams have had a fun filled week. They searched for eggs in class, created some lovely Spring themed art, boogied to some Easter songs and even met the Easter Bunny.
Confident Individuals
This week, the Sunflowers have had lots of Easter fun. We enjoyed sensory play, making tissue chicks, colour matching egg games and egg painting. The children have also made Easter baskets and took part in an Easter egg hunt in the garden. We finished the week by making Easter cakes and decorating biscuits. Today, everyone enjoyed outdoor play together as we will really miss each other over the next two weeks!
Have a safe and happy Easter break and we will see you soon! Happy Holidays!
The Easter bunny paid a visit to class on Thursday. All the boys were please to see him and receive a chocolate egg. They were all Responsible Citizens. One of the boys wasn’t anywhere to be found when the Easter Bunny was about, I can’t think of a reason why…………
