Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe have been working hard on developing our ball skills when taking part in P.E sessions in class.
We have been confident individuals when learning new passes, kicks and throws each week and have been effective contributors when playing partner and team games.
Well Hello Pinettes – how are you all doing?
This week we thought we might put on some Christmas Activities for you all.
Movies – have you watched any good Christmas Movies?
Wilson suggestion is ‘Polar Express’ it is magical, and she watches it every year!
Boyle has picked ‘The Christmas Chronicles’ which she watched on Sunday, Mr Boyle liked it too!
Logan watched ‘Nativity’ with her children at the weekend and they all really liked it.
Shields says ‘E.T’. it may not be a Christmas movie but she likes to watch it at Christmas – it is lovely!
Music and Dance – as you know we love music in the Pine Room so a few suggestions.
Disney Junior Best Junior Holiday Music
Arts and Crafts
This website has some great ideas for crafts and cards.
Cute reindeer ornaments.
Science
Some experiments for anyone that wants to do some Science at home – some are simple some are a bit more complicated.
Cookery – a variety of different fun ideas!!
Makaton – practice your signing with some Christmas Songs!!
Numeracy – counting and singing!
Literacy – a few Christmas Stories.
If you ever want to bring a pirate to meet Santa – Don’t!!
Olaf’s night before Christmas.
Well Pinettes have a lovely week – see you all soon!!!
Love the Pine Ladies.
We have been effective contributors creating Christmas art and craft work to take home. We completed a Christmas tree wall decoration, created colourful ‘stained glass’ bauble pictures and made salt dough baubles. We also practiced Christmas party dancing and were successful learners when we successfully tried a magnetic Christmas bottle science experiment.
Effective Contributors/Confident Individuals
The Snowdrops showed lots of interest in handling and exploring different textures and materials to create a Christmas gift. We also used our counting skills to add chocolates to our bags and made confident choices of colours to decorate them. The Snowdrops had to use their fine motor skills to hold and twist pipe cleaners too. Well done, everyone!
Winter Silence pictures created by The JAMBECS,
Confident individuals who can photograph their own artwork. Superb!
The pupils in the SQA Technology have been busy creating artwork and photographing their designs. Here is a look at what they have been doing over the past few weeks…
The Sungazers were Successful Learners as they participated in a variety of festive maths activities.
They enjoyed ‘Christmas I Spy and Count to 10’ and completing ‘Advent Calendar Maths’.
The Transition boys have been working like Santa’s Elves getting their Christmas Craft ready. They have been Confident Individuals working with different techniques to make their finished product. No peeking until Christmas though!
Continuing our Christmas work, the Transition boys started writing their letters to Santa this week. They were all Responsible Citizens remembering to use manners when constructing their letters. The boys each had a copy of the book of dreams for inspiration.
As it was St Andrew’s Day on Monday, the Transition class studied a Scottish poem called ‘Mince and Tatties’ by J.K. Annand. The boys were all Successful Learners. Activities included, sequencing the poem, matching the key elements of the poem and writing and understanding the poem. Just like the poem, we all thought that mince and tatties were Smashin!
