Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Stars class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week as we began our Christmas activities. We created a Christmas card, reindeer hand print pictures and wrote a letter to Santa! We enjoyed a Christmas story role play and are having daily visits from a pesky elf!
This week we have been learning all about the letter “d”. We love playing pretend with the dinosaurs in class so we found them and decided to make some dinosaur prints. We dipped the dinosaur in the paint getting their feet covered in paint and then made footprints on a piece of paper. All children were able to hold the dinosaur and were confident individuals making their own footprints on their paper.
In the Oak class we have been getting into the Christmas spirit. We were effective contributors during our music lesson. We all had a boomwhacker and together we had to wait and listen until it was our turn to play the note to create the tune of ‘Jingle Bells’.
We took part in lots for art activities to create some lovely Christmas crafts. We were confident individuals when choosing the items for our Santa wish list.
The Beech class have been working hard and developing their confidence and skills in literacy this week. Here we are taking part in a variety of activities whilst being very confident individuals.
We had lots of fun using our fine motor skills to create a very fluffy snowman.
We were successful learners and watched a demonstration before working independently to fill our bottles.
Successful Learners Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams have been learning about animals in Antarctica. We learned how Penguins, Seals and Whales keep warm in freezing cold conditions. These animals have layers of blubber. The pupils tested this for themselves. They put a finger in ice water and felt that it was very cold and then they put a finger covered in ‘blubber’ in the ice water. Some children said it felt “nice” and others were able to keep their fingers in the icy water for longer.
Confident Individuals
On Tuesday, our class elf Sonny arrived! We were all really excited to meet him and loved to listen to a story about him. He has been very naughty already! Sonny brought us an elf advent calendar and we are enjoying adding a pompom to his hat each day.
Sonny has helped us get into the Christmas spirit and this week we have enjoyed an elf hunt. We have searched for parts of our coloured elves and built them. Everyone has enjoyed decorating Christmas tree biscuits and Rudolph Reindeers too.
Successful Learners
The Sunflower class have enjoyed building and matching numbers to 20 this week. We have all worked really hard with our number blocks to build number towers. We have also used numicon and counting cards and have searched in coloured rice to find the matching number of objects.
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
The children enjoyed looking at Christmas card designs and making a choice of design. The children signed ‘Penguin’ and ‘Snowman’ and chose who they would like to send their card to. All pupils demonstrated their learning successes by tracing or writing their names in the card. Take a look at the Moonbeams magnificent Christmas Cards.
The Transition boys were Confident Individuals when they filled out charts to tell how they were feeling about either leaving school or about how they feel about their friends leaving school.
