Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe boys in Transition were Successful Learners as they worked through their numeracy and literacy tasks. Some tasks were group activities and the boys were Effective Contributors. The literacy and numeracy tasks are beginning to take on a Christmas flavour.
Helping Santa deliver presents numeracy task
Reading and answering about the history of Christmas
The Beech class enjoyed celebrating St. Andrew’s Day this year by making colourful tartan kilts! The class were successful learners as they learned all about the story of St. Andrew and celebrated Scottish culture by making their own tartan.
Hello Pinettes – How are you all doing?
Have you read or watched the story ‘Yellow is my Colour Star’? Did you make lots of colour choices?
What is your favourite colour?
Another story for you to listen too and enjoy. 
What did you think of Lara’s yellow wings?
We have put some other links on this week’s blog if you are looking for some different ideas.
The weather has been really cold this week – have any of you been out for a Winters Walk? What did you see? Was it really cold? Did you get all wrapped up?
Below are links to some different Winters songs. 
We all love Frozen in the Pine Room – some pretend they don’t! Below is a link to some Olaf Fun – he is our favourite!! 
Lots of different ideas for some Winter crafting fun in the link below. 
If you want to practice your signing – what about the weather signs.
The BBC Bitesize has lots of cool science information. 
Practice your counting with Bud the Bee in his Number Garden. 
This is the perfect weather for making soup. 
Can you help pick out the ingredients? What colours are the vegetables? Did you help peel or chop? Was your soup tasty?
The Pine Ladies have been searching for some yellow things in the room.
Well have a great week Pinettes.
Love The Pine Ladies
Responsible Citizens/Effective Contributors
The Snowdrops have showed lots of interest in Scottish activities. We have created Scottish flags using different textures and then been able to ‘spot’ small flags on different food packaging. Everyone enjoyed exploring Scottish foods – especially Scottish spreading cheese and oatcakes!
This week we are learning about “d”. The boys all love ducks and were so excited to colour and stick feathers to create their own duck. We also used lots of shapes of brown to create a dog. The boys also used purple triangles to create dinosaurs. The boys are confident individuals in copying the action and saying the sounds. They are then successful learners by following instructions and creating their own animals.
Monday was St Andrew’s Day. The boys listened to a story and looked at pictures on the board. We then made a Scotland flag using tissue paper and cotton wool. We also used cars to create a lovely tartan picture. They were confident individuals dipping the wheels in the paint and rolling them across the paper to create their very own tartan design. We also used crayons to follow the lines on on our pencil control worksheets. We listened to some Scottish music which we were not keen on.
To celebrate St Andrew’s Day, in the Oak class we have made some thistles and weaved some tartan. We were successful learners and worked on our fine motor skills. We all actively participated in all the activities, we were creative and used different shapes to create our own thistle.
We prepared the Christmas decorations for the school and also made some Grinch tree baubles to match the Christmas cards we made. The Oak class will not let the COVID Grinch steal Christmas this year.
Although St. Andrew’s Day is not until Monday the Stars Class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week by learning about him. We made St. Andrew’s flags, enjoyed Scottish sensory handling and did some Scottish dancing. We used broccoli florets to print thistle pictures and enjoyed a Scottish taste and try. Singing Hands visited virtually today. We had great fun!
This week we did lots activities related to the sound “m”. On Monday we were successful learners and made a mouse we added whiskers, a nose and ears to a big brown M. On Thursday we made our own mirror with tin foil and added lots of jewels to make it sparkle. We also explored marshmallows and used spaghetti to make structured and different objects. We stuck eight pieces of spaghetti into one marshmallow to make an octopus. In the afternoon we used different materials to make a green M into a monster. The boys really enjoyed choosing their materials and every monster was different. We also read a story about a silly monster and his friends – everyone listened really well looking at the pictures of the different monsters.
Responsible Citizens Effective Contributors Successful Learners
The Moonbeams had a great time listening to Singing Hands and joining in with some of the signs which we had been practicing in class. The children loved hearing the Christmas Songs and looking at all the funny hats the ladies were wearing. Thanks Friends Of Willowbank and The Singing Hands Ladies.
