Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe celebrated Chinese New Year on Tuesday. This year is the year of the tiger we created some tiger bunting for our board by colouring in a tiger picture and we created a tiger face using different pieces of paper. The children were confident individuals looking at the image on the board and then using the pieces to create their own face.
We cleaned the classroom, made lanterns and used black and orange icing to crate tiger faces on biscuits.
The Bluebells enjoyed listening to the story Katie Morag Delivers the mail. We enjoyed some post office role play posting letters and sorting 3D parcels by their shape. Some of us were able to guess what might be in the parcel through looking and feeling it’s shape.
The Bluebells have been enjoying learning about life on a Scottish Island through Katie Morag stories. Today we learned about how people travel from an island to the mainland using a boat. We created our own foil boats and used a fan to make them sail across the water in our tuff tray. We enjoyed a little competitive boat race against our friends.
We have been exploring different jobs people may have. When reading the stories we have been exploring the jobs people have on the island. We were confident individuals and completed jigsaws matching people in their work uniform. We had to pick the correct head, body and legs to create a whole person. We also dressed up and were effective contributors and completed some jobs in the classroom. Some pupils had hi-vis vests on and put rubbish in the bin pretending to be bin men. We pretended to have a train the class and boarded the train to take us to the shop where we decided what we wanted to buy. We also dressed up and pretended to go to see the doctor and she used the phone to talk to her patients.
On Tuesday we celebrated Robert Burns.
In the morning we listened to some Scottish poems – our favourite was ‘Crocodile’ by JK Annand. We then created our own acrostic poem choosing different words that started with each of the letters in the word Scotland.
In the afternoon we used strips of paper to create our own tartan design for our kilts that will be displayed on our Katie Morag display outside our classroom. We were all confident individuals at choosing which strip of colour we wanted to use each time. We added a black semi -circle to be the sporran and gold detail with our name.
Last week were were confident individuals mixing up icing in a bowl and using a spoon to create a Scotland flag design on a biscuit.
This week after reading some of the Katie Morag stories we matched some of the characters and places from the stories. All of the pupils were successful learners and able to glue either the pieces or the paper. Some were able to match picture to picture and some were able to match picture to word. They enjoyed the stories and we discussed each of the characters and the different places Katie Morag visited in some of the stories.
The Bluebells have enjoyed learning about activities that happen during a traditional Scottish Highland Games. We took turns trying out some of the activities. We tossed the caber, threw the hammer, played tug of war, threw the wellie and our favourite was hurling the haggis.
This week we went on a treasure hunt looking for theme pictures. Our theme is Katie Morag and we were looking for pictures of the characters and places from the stories. We went to the garden to see if we could find any. We were confident individuals exploring the garden to find all the pictures that were hidden. Some of the pictures were big and some were small making them tricky to find. We had to look high and low to find all the pictures around the garden.
This week we have been focusing on taking turns and playing games. We have used games from the cupboard and enjoyed exploring them and then with support from staff playing them together.
We played animal dominoes and had to find the same animal to put down next. A class favourite was “Wally the washer”. Each person had a washing line and had to push the button on the washing machine to see what items fell out. We were confident individuals pushing the button which opened the machine door. We then had to put their coloured clothes onto our washing line. We had to wait a long time as each person had a turn. We all waited really well. It was a fun afternoon.
This week we have been outdoors lots. We have been playing lots of games and having fun. Some of the children have been running playing tig with peers and staff. We took a ball out and played catch. We stood in a circle and threw the ball and tried to catch it when it was thrown to us. It was fun and everyone enjoyed it. We also took some scarfs out to throw up in the air. They came down much slower than the ball.
