Willowbank School, KilmarnockThis year for Chinese New Year it is the year of the Tiger, we worked on our fine motor skills to complete some art activities. We created a tiger and a fan which we were confident individuals completing a Chinese dance using our fans. We sampled some Chinese food and created fruit kebabs to represent Peace, Good Luck and Happiness.
This term one of our 50 things outdoor learning experiences was to explore the feeling of being windswept. It certainly has been a week to experience this, we were all successful learners in making our Scotland flags wave proudly in the wind. Also experience our multi coloured cape flying in the wind whilst we ran.
As part of our topic this term, we watched the film Brave and carried out our own film review of it.
We answered questions on which was our favourite character, scene and whether we enjoyed the film or not.
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We followed the recipe by putting milk, sugar and vanilla extract in a zipped bag. We put this in another zipped bag with ice and salt. After taking turns to give the bag a good shake the milk froze to make ice cream. It tasted rather good and most pupils asked for extra spoonfuls!
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A group of Snowdrops headed out into the garden to see what they could find. A Gruffalo had passed through on his way to Glasgow and he had left some numbered footprints on the ground…but some were missing. The Gruffalo had visited lots of places in the garden and the Snowdrops had fun collecting the numbered footprints and slotting them in order along the number line. Along the way they also found some of the other animals from the Gruffalo story and did a great job of counting out how many they had found. Back in class, the Snowdrops continued practising their numeracy skills with the Glasgow Gruffalo and friends.
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Today, the Sunflower’s enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. As a class, we watched the dragon dance that takes place each year and we then made our own dragons to dance along to the music. Afterwards, each child took part in some sensory play and practiced using tweezers to lift noodles. Red and gold are lucky colours at Chinese New Year and we played with our lucky red playdough alongside golden rice. Some children practiced tracing Chinese numbers in rice too!
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The moonbeams have enjoyed learning all about Chinese New Year today. The children learned that Chinese people believe that red is a lucky colour. The children also enjoyed tasting some food and investigating some traditional Chinese decorations and instruments.
The Daisies have enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We enjoyed a sensory story about Chinese New Year Celebrations and engaged well with the props. Our favourite thing was trying some tasty Chinese food our favourite was the chow mien noodles. During art we made Chinese lanterns. We drew some numbers in Chinese using chopsticks and our fingers.
What fun we have had today learning about Chinese New Year. We paid good attention to watching a family get ready for Chinese New Year on the board. We saw them decorate their houses and so we made paper lanterns too and decorated our classroom. We even made our lanterns light up as we enjoyed our snack.
After we made our dragon, we took them outside and used them as kites. What a great blowy day for kites!
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As part of our Science focussed area of learning, we learned about push & pull forces. We looked at different toys that you have to push and pull in order for them to move. We had a push car race & a class tug of war to experience these forces. We then made our own slingshots after watching Merida from Brave use her bow & arrow. Some pupils were able to measure how far the items travelled!
