Willowbank School, Kilmarnock*Successful Learners* *Responsible Citizens*
We had a great time this week exploring our ECO targets in class. We set ourselves the task of finding a way to not waste so much food in the kitchen during cookery. We decided to find a way to use discarded food by making our own wormery using soil, sand, stones, leaves and vegetable peelings from the soup that we made.
*Effective Contributors*
We have done a few things in class to learn about and celebrate the new year!
We learned to play along to ‘Auld Lang Syne’ on percussion instruments by following music notes.
We made colourful firework displays out of salt and paint!
We made sparkly slime and play-dough !
We enjoyed time on the Magic Carpet making lots of firework designs:
We also decorated biscuits with writing icing to make a fireworks display!
We worked hard this morning on recognising and identifying different signs and symbols we might find in our local environment.
We looked at the different shapes and colours of signs and what they are telling us. We then made up our own signs for our class rules. We were very responsible citizens as we walked around the community.
We have been very lucky this week to have enjoyed TWO class parties! We have played lots of games and been effective contributors as we took turns and waited patiently during each game or turn. We had lots of fun and behaved very responsibly.
We were also very luck to meet Santa Clause himself! Santa and his elf came to visit us. We enjoyed meeting them and then toasting some marshmallows by the fire during a lovely Christmassy morning 
On Thursday we got a letter from Santa thanking us for the letters we sent to him a few weeks ago! Hugh was super excited to get a personal message from him!
To cap off a fantastic week we got the chance to watch a virtual Singing Hands concert! We danced, signed and sang our hearts out!
We had fun today exploring chalk art effects to create an Aurora Borealis picture. We explored different creative techniques such as blending and colour mixing to create just the right effect. We were successful learners as we learned about the phenomenon!
We’ve had a lovely Christmassy morning celebrating Christmas Jumper day and helping to raise awareness of the ‘Save the Children’ campaign.
We have been effective contributors as we took part in a variety of activities such as jumper biscuit decorating, designing our own Christmas jumper and playing games.
We have been very effective contributors this past month as we prepared our class and school for Christmas. We have been working really hard on our class performance as well as helping to decorate our class and school for the festive season. This year we have a snowman theme! Here are some photos of us bringing Christmas to the Beech class.
Wooden pallet snowman:
Collage Christmas Trees with Mrs MacDonald:
Festive Snowglobes:
Melting Snowman Biscuits:
Snowman Family Christmas Cards:
Hugh’s Christmas Cracker! Hugh will be writing a joke every day in December and posting on our classroom door to give everyone a Christmas giggle as they walk past.
We made fake snow during sensory art:
We made snowman hat tree ornaments, too:
We have been working hard over the last few weeks to make sour school and classroom as Christmassy as possible by making as many snow or snowman themed crafts as we could think of. Here is a handful of photos of some of our favourite activities:
Sneak peak at our Christmas displays…
Christmas Tree Collage…
Snowman Snow globes…
Snowman biscuits…
Finger Print Snowman Family…
DIY Sensory Snow!
…and snow slime!
Lollipop Stick Snowman Hats…
We have had a blast this week raising awareness for BBC Children in Need!
We made Pudsey collages. Pudsey biscuits and cupcakes, played ‘Pin the Spot on Pudsey’, made special Pudsey playdough and played Pudsey bingo!
Here are some of our favourite photos of our Pudsey Friday:
The Beech pupils have been working hard this week on our literacy targets. We split into small groups and were very successful learners as we worked away through our tasks and games.
Emma and Leo are learning some tricky words by playing interactive games:
Tyler has been working on his blending skills and phonic knowledge:
Amber has been learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Hugh and Toni have been exploring the letter and sound of ‘D’:
Fine motor and writing skills:
Spelling our tricky words:
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