Willowbank School, KilmarnockOur new theme is Dinosuars. We have enjoyed starting to learn about dinosaurs in class. We have been watching some dinosaur clips and went for a dinosaur hunt in the garden. We were looking for all types of dinosaurs. Some were large dinosaurs, some were small and some even had wings.
We used masks in classroom to do some roleplay and we pretended we were dinosaurs and roared. We even scared Mrs Higgins.
Today we went on our class outing. We all held hands and explored the area around the school. We were able to stop at the roads, look both ways and then cross when it was safe to do so. We saw lots of dogs wagging their tails and builders building the new houses around the corner. We were confident individuals walking well and finding different coloured objects on our route.
This week we have been learning about Fairtrade.
we looked for the Fairtrade logo on items then used used some Fairtrade items -chocolate and bananas to made some yummy cupcakes. We also explored lots of dry sensory materials and used these to create a lovely sensory picture. We also reused all of our wrappers and collaged a handprint shape with all the wrappers and Fairtrade pictures.
Yesterday was World Book Day we started the day exploring lots of books. We were confident individuals handling the books with care and turning the pages. We went on a book hunt in the garden to find more books and enjoyed exploring these when we got back to class. We made bookmarks by making marks with crayons and some of the pupils were effective contributors collecting all the materials needed. The staff dressed up as characters from the Little Miss books so we did some Little Miss colouring and matching. We also enjoyed a lovely bookbug session exploring a new sensory book and we loved touching each page to feel the different textures.
Yesterday we were confident individuals and made pancakes. We mixed the ingredients and then helped to flip the pancakes.
Today we got to choose a topping for the pancakes and then enjoyed eating our pancakes for snack.
The Bluebells have enjoyed taking part in rainbow activities and listened to My Shadow is Pink all about celebrating being unique. We have taken part in colourful ribbon dance about equality, peace and love. We made a sensory LGBT flag using colourful soap foam.
On Tuesday It was 22.2.22 a day of all the number 2’s. We coloured in the number 2 and did some overwriting. We were successful learners holding the crayons to make marks and also made a lovely two display for our class. We also make crowns to wrest and were all confident individuals and were able to to put them on our head.
Today we had lots of fun with different activities and games. We played a farm animal matching game and had to find all the animals that were the same. We were confident individuals and effective contributors sharing and letting everyone have a turn.
We did lots of heart activities for Valentine’s Day. Yesterday we made cards by painting our hands and making a heart shape and made love heart bird feeders. Today we were confident individuals using heart paint stampers to create a bright heart designs on black card. We also used crayons to colour in heart shapes focussing on our pencil control. We also got to use the hole punch using our fine motor skills to push down to make holes in our red heart shape.
Bird feeders
Yesterday we threaded cheerios onto pipe cleaners and then tied them together to make a love heart shape. Today we took them into the garden and hung them on the trees for the birds. Next week we will go out and see if they have been eaten by the birds over the holiday weekend.
