Willowbank School, KilmarnockWhat a great start to the week in the Transition class. They were all Confident Individuals taking part in an excellent yoga session. The class copied Mrs Feeney at took on different poses. At the end there was time for relaxation and we left feeling ready to face the week.
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We enjoyed a variety of activities for Chinese New Year. We learnt how the calendar is names after animals, made fruit fireworks with apples depicting peace and tangerines depicting good fortune. We tried using chopsticks and opened fortune cookies. We had fun making fans and dusted the classroom to clean it for New Year. We created Dragon Kites which flew well in the wind.
We 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.
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We had a treasure hunt in the garden to find stones to paint then looked on the internet for ideas of patterns to paint on them. Hope you like our designs.
This year for Chinese New Year it is the year of the Tiger, we worked on our fine motor skills to complete some art activities. We created a tiger and a fan which we were confident individuals completing a Chinese dance using our fans. We sampled some Chinese food and created fruit kebabs to represent Peace, Good Luck and Happiness.
As part of our topic this term, we watched the film Brave and carried out our own film review of it.
We answered questions on which was our favourite character, scene and whether we enjoyed the film or not.
What fun we have had today learning about Chinese New Year. We paid good attention to watching a family get ready for Chinese New Year on the board. We saw them decorate their houses and so we made paper lanterns too and decorated our classroom. We even made our lanterns light up as we enjoyed our snack.
After we made our dragon, we took them outside and used them as kites. What a great blowy day for kites!
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.
It was the turn of the second half of the class to cook their neeps this week! Some great skills shown by Confident Individuals. They worked with hot water and hot equipment. They used kitchen utensils safely and tidied up well at the end of their session. Well done!
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.
