Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe had lots of fun creating Christmas gifts for our families throughout December.
We were effective contributors and sourced the supplies needed for each of our gifts. We then carefully shared out the supplies to ensure that all our peers could create a gift using the resources we had gathered.
Good morning!
Below are home learning activities for the week 
Have fun!
Literacy:
Use your arms, legs and body to make the shapes of different letters. Can you spell out your name?
Have a look at the alphabet video below for some ideas!
Numeracy:
Become a shape detective! Look around your house and find an object for each shape below.
square circle triangle rectangle
Health and Wellbeing:
Blow up a balloon and practice your ball skills by passing it to a family member or friend.
Work as a team to tap the balloon into the air and count how many times you can tap it before it hits the floor.
Art:
Ask an adult to cut different fruits into halves or slices.
Dip these into paint and create your own fruit printing picture by placing them down onto paper.
Scotland:
Today is Burn’s Day. Try some different Scottish foods with your family.
What foods did you enjoy?
Good morning everyone!
Please find this weeks home learning activities below.
Literacy:
In school, we enjoy strengthening our finger and hand muscles through ‘disco doh’ sessions.
Warm up your playdoh then watch the video below, copying the actions. If you don’t have any playdoh, you could make your own following a simple recipe found here: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/playdough-recipe
Numeracy:
Gather a selection of play or real life coins. Look carefully at each coin and sort them by colour, size or shape. Can you identify the value of each coin or order them?
Health and Wellbeing:
Practice your food preparation skills by gathering different kinds of fruit, chopping or peeling these with help from an adult, then mix them together to create a delicious fruit salad.
Theme:
For our theme this term, we have been learning all about Scotland and the city of Edinburgh.
Look at pictures or videos of different tartans, then use strips of paper to create your own tartan by weaving or layering.
Good Morning!
Below are a selection of optional home learning activities. You can participate in these throughout the week at your leisure.
Literacy
Find some old newspapers or magazines. Cut out some letters and use these to build your name or other familiar words.
Numeracy
Use building blocks to make a tower. Count how many bricks you could add before the tower falls. For an extra challenge, make two towers and use your addition skills to find the total number of blocks used.
Health and Wellbeing
Participate in a game of musical statues with your family. Dance to your favourite music and freeze when the music stops. Who could hold their pose for the longest?
Science
Mix different food colourings or paints into individuals cups of water. Take turns mixing these together to see what new colours you can make.
We had super talking and listening this morning during our literacy work!
We were confident individuals and made choices to design our own snowmen pictures. We discussed our choices and shared our finished designs with our peers.
We have been working hard on developing our ball skills when taking part in P.E sessions in class.
We have been confident individuals when learning new passes, kicks and throws each week and have been effective contributors when playing partner and team games.
We had lots of fun using our fine motor skills to create a very fluffy snowman.
We were successful learners and watched a demonstration before working independently to fill our bottles.
We had great listening this week in cookery to choose different vegetables to make a rainbow pasta salad.
We were successful learners and learned about chopping safely. We added our chopped ingredients to a bowl, taking turns with our peers and had super stirring.
We have had a fantastic day celebrating Children in Need!
We have been successful learners taking part in lots of different activities.
We have loved exploring the school grounds and were confident individuals and used our senses to find different objects and materials to add to our journey sticks.
We focused our attention to discus what we had found and enjoyed sharing the finished stick with our peers.
