Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe 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.
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!
The 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!
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
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!
The Stars class have been effective contributors by making personalised snowflakes for something ‘secret’ Mrs Murray is planning. We have also been working hard on our Christmas window display for the atrium. We hope you will like it when it’s finished. We also enjoyed the sensory experience of copying shapes and names on shaving foam.
Well it was the other half of the Class on Monday that got out for some Outdoor Education – the rain stayed away but it was a bit breezy …
…off on a Autumn Hunt!!
Tuesday saw some snow!!!
Well it looked like snow, sensory play and tolerating a different texture and feel on our hands – and tolerating an apron the whole time – Well Done!!!!
We didn’t eat it – but it was edible!!
And now for the clean up!!
Logan go and get your own swatter and leave mine alone!
MOVE, Music and FUN!!!
Snowflake Art – using my multi-purpose swatter!
It is a Masterpiece!
Nothing gets you out of doing hard work in the Pine Room.
Creating Art with paint and Cotton Buds – sprinkle some glitter Jardine would be proud!!!
Bubble Art while in my Standing Frame.
Fiona the Physio brought me a Walker – I successfully learned to use it in no time at all, what a confident individual!
WOW!!! Tomorrow we can dance to Baby Shark (Oh no! )
Now this might look as if I am relaxing BUT I am actually working on my exercises.
Working on Global Goal 5 – Gender Equality – looking at the jobs men and women do.
A Pilot or a Builder?
This Walker is FAB!!
A Policeman or a Fire-women.
Parachute Fun!!!
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
We were effective contributors as we enjoyed participating in Children in Need activities. We created colourful masks, made Pudsey cakes, carefully completed dot to dot pictures, played ‘Pudsey Says’ and handled spotty water beads.
We are at the end of our IDL Topic and our Colour Rainbow – so this week we are blue!
Although this art work is from our Purple Week.
This successful learner has been working on her numeracy skills. That will be 4 million pounds please!!
Ordering money – well done!!
The sunny weather prop creates a lot of laughs.
More ordering – sizes this time.
Concentration here from these successful learners as we clap, count and sign…
…and giggle!!!
This week our Science was all about Colours.
A tray of milk with some food colouring – when you put some washing up liquid on the end of a cotton bud and dip it in colour moves away – it was really cool you could try this at home!!!
Now for the Skittle Rainbow – Shields loved this!
Skittles on a plate then slowly pour on some warm water and wait!!
Amazing!!!
Not about Colour but using a non-permanent marker we drew on some shapes on to the plate added some warm water and watched the shapes move.
Yellow and Blue make…
…Green!!
Outdoor Learning an Autumn Hunt round the Kay Park.
Autumn Leaves.
Fungi
Boyle lets take some of this back to the Pine Room – quick no one is looking!!!
Looking for a 4 leaf clover.
Ready for our new story Blue Penguin and Sensory Play?
Shaving foam and Arctic Animals.
Watch out the Arctic winds are coming in.
I have an apron on!!!
The Eco-Captain making sure we reuse everyday things for our Remembrance Art.
Do you want to Dance?
More juice please Boyle!
Colour sorting and the Color Monster.
Which Monster goes where??
Hola!
Someone preferred the story in Spanish!?!?
Cause and Effect.
Finishing last weeks Recycling craft – a lot of PVA glue was used!!!
Making lots of choices.
Oh Wow!!
Someone is very pleased!
And now for some Children in Need Crafts – Bingo Dabbers!!
Note from the ECO-CAPTAIN Please save you Crisp packets – Mrs Slinger has an important use for them – they are going to be made into blankets for the Homeless ‘Get your Eco On!!’
Happy Children in Need Day 2020!!!
We were successful learners as we explored Diwali this week. We made diya lamps and rangoli patterns.
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