Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Sungazers Class are enjoying lots of lovely Easter activities this week. They have been very creative in making their Easter cards and had great fun using the glass pens to decorate their Easter sun catchers to take home as a gift. We have more Easter fun planned for the next couple of days as well.
We hope you all have a wonderful Easter holiday, stay safe and enjoy some lovely weather (fingers crossed!).
Check out these cute Easter bunny cards which were designed by the pupils in the Oak class. Effective contributors today!
Wishing you all a ‘Hoppy’ Easter!
This morning the pupils in the Oak class created these beautiful kite pictures. Lots of excellent fine motor practise was involved in making the paper kites. Everyone was very focused during this task.
Well done to these successful learners! Keep up the good work!
Today the pupils in the Oak class started their preparations for Earth Day 2021.
The boys created these super earth mobiles which will hang in the classroom after the Easter break. Super successful learners today. Well done everyone!
The Stars class were digging for dinosaurs in the sensory garden and we found loads. We also found frozen dinosaur eggs and used warm water to help the babies ‘hatch’.
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Monday Morning we were confident individuals and worked on our MOVE skills.
Keeping busy during sitting practice.
A few different classroom chairs were tried till we got the right one. Logan making some adjustments.
Busy boy – walking practice and wearing my gaitors!!
Below is a link to lots of different short songs, including some familiar counting songs.
Logan go and get your own Fly Swatter!!
Who has tickly feet?
Stretch out!
Knees up.
Stretch.
Sit up – Well Done!!!
Tuesday morning this confident individual was telling us a story and making us all laugh!!
Great sitting practice!!!
Sitting and reaching – well done!!
For ‘Lots of Socks’ on Friday we have been responsible citizens painting odd socks.
Listening to What the Ladybird Heard – great animal noises!!!
Sitting practice – too cool for school!!!
This confident individual was matching some socks – you rock!!
We trip outside for these posers!!!
Sewing classes with Boyle.
This clever boy took all his juice – and was so pleased with himself!!
“What the Ladybird Heard” successful learners matching the sounds and the animal picture.
I am so funny….MOO!!! NEIGH!!!
Sitting practice – are you joking!!!
Lets relax with some Tac Pac.
Fanning with Fans – is funny!!
This responsible citizen is showing her awareness for Purple day and supporting National Epilepsy Awareness.
We are all responsible citizens Lots of Socks – awareness for Down Syndrome in Scotland.
We enjoyed playing our musical instruments today to ‘I am the Music Man’
Parachute games – so relaxing some of us fell asleep!!!
Enjoy the rest of Lots of Socks Day – Have a smashing weekend
Love the Pine Ladies
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Today we celebrated “Lots of socks day” for World Downs Syndrome Day which was on Sunday. We took a picture of all our feet in odd socks. We decorated socks with different materials. We made them both different to make them odd socks. We also added felt ears, a felt tongue, eyes and a pom pom nose to a sock to make a puppy sock puppet. We then wore them on our hands made them go WOOF!!!!!! Some of us were also wearing purple for Epilepsy Awareness Day too.
Successful Learners, Effective Contributors & Confident Individuals
After learning that the Olympic Games originated in Greece (the same place Hercules is from), we had our own mini Olympics in the Beech Class. We took part in a variety of sports, including the Bean Bag Toss, a Mini Marathon, Hula Hooping, and a Rubber Duck race. We then had a closing ceremony to celebrate our efforts and achievements. Confident individuals indeed!
We also looked at Greek architecture & the different styles of buildings. The pupils were then given a challenge to build their own building using only dry spaghetti & marshmallows. This required a lot of communication & teamwork!
Effective Contributors & Responsible Citizens
The Beech class planted their own flowers & peas that we are going to help grow in the classroom. Each pupil has the responsibility of looking after their own flower and watching it blossom. We have added ‘water flowers’ to our daily routine checklist before going home each day.
Successful learners
This week we have been learning all about the letter “u”. We made lovely unicorns and all made an umbrella. We also explored underwater and underground. We glued the umbrella to the page and the blew the paint down to be the rain using our own straws. We glued a “u” onto brown paper and then used our pencil to draw ants and worms around the “u” in the soil. We also played a game throwing the cardboard “u”s and trying to get them in the pole. We had lots of fun.
