Willowbank School, KilmarnockWhat a lot of fun we had drawing outside with chalk!
We confidently chose our own colours from the box and attempted to make firework pictures.
Some of us even lay down on the ground and let our friends draw round us. We enjoyed looking at our shape on the ground once we stood up.
Confident Individuals/Successful Learners
This afternoon, the Asteroids paid lots of attention to paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. His portraits of people are painted using different fruit and vegetables. They enjoyed finding and naming the different foods used in his paintings. We tried our own fruit and veg portraits on the Promethean board and then we used pictures of ourselves and chose which food we wanted to use for our own facial features.
Don’t they look great?
Confident Individuals/Responsible Citizens/Successful Learners
The Asteroids have been learning about road safety with the help of Super Cat. We had great fun listening to the story, joining in with words and actions of the safety rap, road safety games, sorting out safe and unsafe situations and making our own Stop, Look, Listen and Think signs.
Well done, Asteroids!
The Asteroids were all looking fabulous wearing their costumes this Hallowe’en. We had an astronaut, Beetlejuice, an angel and Cruella and her 3 Dalmatians!!
We have enjoyed some spooky activities. We voted on which eco pumpkin to make and got to work creating that and we made our potions using a red cabbage. Today, we started the day with some skeleton dancing, Hallowe’en corners, swat the spider, we dooked for apples and we made a scary biscuit monster this afternoon to have with our snack.
Happy Hallowe’en everyone!
The Asteroids did a super job of using potatoes to make and mash and create a potato autumnal hedgehog.
We all tried peeling our potatoes and chopping them into small pieces ready to cook. We also helped peel a carrot and then the teachers chopped them into small pieces to make eyes and noses. Next job was to chop our sausages into small pieces to make hedgehog prickles. We all enjoyed this job the best and some of us couldn’t resist a wee taste! 
We used our mashers to mash the potato and enjoyed seeing the potato squeeze through the different shapes in the mashers!
When the mash was ready, we helped make a hedgehog shape then began to arrange our sausage slices to make prickles. Last job was to pop on the chopped carrot eyes and noses. Job done!
Don’t they look great?
Some of us were confident individuals and tried them. Yum! The sausages were by far the favourite part.
Successful Learners/Confident Individuals/Responsible Citizens
The Asteroids celebrated Diwali this morning – the Festival of Lights.
We practised the Diwali Makaton sign and learned about the different things people do to celebrate Diwali. One of these being creating a Rangoli to place at their front doors. These are very colourful and we made our very own using different shapes, pom poms and glitter. We even threaded some beads to make tassels for it! We enjoyed celebrating light over darkness by having our own sensory light experience inthe classroom.
Well done, Asteroids!
Successful Learners/Effective Contributors/Confident Individuals
The Asteroids have been busy investigating the weights of different vegetables and comparing their weights and sizes. We tried to estimate which vegetable would be the heaviest then we checked our predictions using the balancing scales.
We worked hard to order some vegetables in order of heaviest to lightest, lightest to heaviest.
Responsible Citizen/Confident Individual
To make our bug hotel, we recycled our plastic bottles and cut a space in the side. We had to use good looking skills to find different natural materials such as sticks, stones and fir cones, to stack inside our bottles to provide shelter for the bugs.
After finishing our bug hotels, we placed them in the garden to see if any bugs would be attracted to our hotels. We visited a few weeks later and found a few creepy crawlies in our hotels so we were very pleased to have helped the wildlife in our school grounds. Good job, Asteroids!
We have enjoyed our time learning about harvest time, different foods produced, helping others and being thankful for the food we eat.
We went on a food hunt round our classroom and used a checklist to make sure we had found all the items, we made a scarecrow and chose which materials to use for the scarecrow’s hair. We also collected food for the local food bank and took it to the collection point in the school. This afternoon we made our own classroom harvest wreath and made a harvest shaker to shake while we sang harvest songs at the end of the day.
Well done, Asteroids!
The Asteroids have been enjoying their topic, Oliver’s Vegetables.
We have been reading the book together, dressing up as the main characters and have shown good recall of the main events in the story. We have been sequencing the story using visuals and have been able to answer some comprehension questions based on the story. We have also been matching key words to pictures and characters. Awesome Asteroids Alert! 
