Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Stars class made place mats and iced biscuits for our Macmillan snack. We enjoyed a sociable gathering together where some of us chose to have strawberry milk shake too. We also decorated a yummy Colin the caterpillar cake. We thought it looked great next to the Colin the caterpillar we’d grown with grass seed!
This week we have continued with our story ‘The Flamingo that didn’t want to be Pink’ and made some lovely Flamingos – we were successful learners and made choices and decided what we want our Flamingos to look like. Selecting different paper, feathers, pom-poms and glitter! Aren’t they lovely?
And we also got to read the story outside in the sunshine.
Numeracy has been fun! We have counted different animals and learned their Makaton sign, even the sign for Starfish (actually we had to ask Mr Campbell that one!) sorted and explored different colours and enjoyed playing dominoes.
We are confident individuals while participating in our physical exercise and MOVE, and carried out our hard work!
In the Pine Room we are always very happy to hear each others news during morning Group, and we like making choices and pressing the feeling sound bar to express how we feel each morning.
In Science, we are still looking after the Bees and have made a couple of ‘Bee Houses’ – counting the canes and fitting them into the tin. They are now hanging up in a tree that we can see from our class room – hopefully a family of friendly bees might move in!
Social Sciences we are continuing looking after the birds and we made some birds feeders out of apples! Getting all we needed ready, cutting the string and the apples in half, mixing the bird seed and the lard and pressing into the apples.
Our Responsible Citizen was given a special lanyard by Boyle, as she has been looking after and helping everyone in the Pine Room and carrying her allocated jobs.
Today is the MacMillan Coffee, in class we liked making Colin the Caterpillar. We enjoyed our Class Social Snack – although none of us had coffee!!! We hope you like our MacMillan Cups – we all made a choice of what treat to put in it!!
Have a great weekend.
The Transition class worked very well at their personal development skills this week. Each boy has their own target spent time focusing independently on their skill and were Confident Individuals.
Personal grooming in a methodical manner.
Tying shoe laces
Independent dressing skills
Reading and understanding
Setting a clock to common times
The Stars class were successful learners this week when doing our Eco work. We learnt about some boys and girls living abroad who had to go to work so were not able to go to school. We are very thankful we are able to go to school living in Scotland. We were responsible citizens when voting for Pupil Council posts. Good luck to all the candidates. We formed initial letters of our names using twigs from the garden and at theme art did leaf printing and created a raccoon and porcupine for our ‘Over the Hedge’ wall display. At science we made a fizzy volcano.
The Stars class have been confident individuals and successful learners whilst enjoying outside activities when the weather is good. We have been looking at the garden trees and how they change over the year. We created lovely pictures for the class wall of the four seasons of the tree. We discussed our needs and wants this week and had a great time with the car ramp deciding which slopes and surfaces made our cars go farther……and faster! We enjoyed hearing the story of the ‘Loaves and Fishes’ and were amazed at how five wee loaves and two fishes could feed five thousand people!
Hi Everyone. Hope all is well with you. All the Stars class ladies are doing fine and enjoyed the sunshine this weekend. 
This week is POLO (Power Off Learn Outside) Week at Willowbank so we thought you might like to do some of the activities we’d be doing at school.
CD Wind Spinners Ornament
You will need – old CD, string or ribbon, PVA glue, sequins, buttons, glitter, scissors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-lk66d2m4
Mrs Chisholm made spinners with her daughter Evie. Aren’t they good?
Garden Treasure Hunt
Collect……..
5 stones
8 pegs
2 gardening gloves
6 weeds
1 trowel
3 plant pots
7 daisies
9 twigs
4 leaves
10 buttercups
Write the number beside the bundle of things you’ve collected using twigs, chalk or painted on the slabs with a paintbrush and water.
Also – Make a circle from stones
Make a triangle from twigs
Leaf Name
Write your name from some of the things you’ve collected or write with chalk. Get your family to write their names too.
Mrs Logan was busy with her children writing their names. Looks like they want to be in the Stars class too!
Paper Plane Challenge
Make and decorate some paper planes with your family. Who’s plane can fly the farthest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ReNKZiZNc
Mrs Westerman made some paper planes with her wee grandson, Liam. They used pages from his colouring book. Liam had great fun flying his planes.
We hope you choose to do some of these activities. Remember to send us your comments or photos. We’d love to hear how you are getting on.
Have Fun! Keep Safe! 
Good Morning Sungazers! Hope that you are all doing well?
This week we are going to the thinking about Sun Safety – what do we need to do/wear in the sunshine to keep us all safe!
Here are 3 activities to try at home –
Have a wonderful week and remember to please email us any photos of you completing your work – we would love to see you!
Team Sungazers
Here we have a great photo of this young lady getting her daily exercise by exercising her horse. It looks like you are having lots of fun! Thank you for sharing your photo.
Hi everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the good weather. 
Tuesday 2nd June should have been our Sports Day. Willowbank staff have been very busy filming and taking photographs of races you could try. The Stars class ladies had a ‘dressing up’ race. Hope you enjoy it!
This week we thought we could have our own wee sports day at home with a few races and a picnic. It would be nice to make some butterfly cakes for your picnic but if you can’t get the ingredients why not make some sandwiches instead. You could cut them into fancy shapes.
BUTTERFLY CAKE RECIPE 
100g butter, softened
100g caster sugar
2 large eggs
100g self raising flour
1 level teaspoon
baking powder
ICING – 175g butter, softened
350g sifted icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
INSTRUCTIONS –
** Don’t worry if you can’t find any icing sugar in the shops to make buttercream icing. A spoonful of jam or lemon curd in the centre will work just as well.
RACES
If you don’t see any races/activities you want to do on the Willowbank video then maybe you could consider welly throwing (who throws their welly nearest to the target – the target could be a teatowel), water race (fill a basin with water, scoop up a cup of water at a time and run with it over to an empty bowl. Who can collect the most amount of water in 1 minute), ball/balloon catch (how many times can you catch a balloon or ball in 1 minute) or fill the bucket (transfer small objects from one bucket to another. First finished is the winner.) I’m sure someone from your family could help you with your races.
PICNIC
Sit on a rug in the garden, if you can, and enjoy your butterfly cakes and some juice with your family or you could sit at a picnic table. Maybe use a colourful tablecloth. Listen for the birds. Mrs Gardner has blackbirds nesting in her garden and they are very chirpy!
WE’RE ALL GOING ON A BEAR HUNT
Enjoy listening to this story on You Tube. Try and do all the actions and say the sounds if you can. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL36gMrHJaI
If you have fun doing some of these activities then send us a comment or a photo. We’d love to hear from you.
Have Fun! Stay Safe!
Good Morning Daisies!
I hope everyone is getting to enjoy the lovely weather we are having again. Below are some activity ideas for the week. You can complete as many or as few as you would like.
Have fun and don’t forget to send some photos of you completing activities to kris.campbell@eastayrshire.org.uk 
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