Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Daisies have enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We enjoyed a sensory story about Chinese New Year Celebrations and engaged well with the props. Our favourite thing was trying some tasty Chinese food our favourite was the chow mien noodles. During art we made Chinese lanterns. We drew some numbers in Chinese using chopsticks and our fingers.
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The Daisies class enjoyed reading “Greyfriars Bobby’s New Adventure” story. They were very interested to learn more about Bobby and enjoyed looking at pictures of his memorial statue in Edinburgh. We found out that people believe if you rub Bobby’s nose that it brings you good luck. We took turns rubbing Bobby’s nose for luck and made a tartan Greyfriars Bobby craft.
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The Daisies class enjoyed watching a virtual tour of Edinburgh Zoo. We named all of the animals we could see and discussed some characteristics – what the elephants use their trunks for, what penguins like to eat etc.
We matched animals to their animal skins and sorted them into their correct habitats.
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The Daisies class enjoyed watching clips of the Military Tattoo drummers. We had turns at playing the drums. We absolutely loved this!
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The Daisies class enjoyed a mini Burns Supper in class today. We watched the Transition class’ virtual clips of their Burns Supper and braved trying some Scottish foods. We had irn bru, haggis, needs and tatties, porridge, shortbread and tablet.
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The Daisies class enjoyed going on a local area walk and looking at different styles of houses. We spotted flats, bungalows and large detached houses. We also spotted a Scottish flag that we recognised from our theme.
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The Daisies class enjoyed looking at clips of Edinburgh Castle on Google Maps. We also watched a YouTube clip of a Minecraft themed animation of Edinburgh Castle getting built.
We used a rectangle foam stamper to print brick effects on our castle template and added windows, towers and a castle door.
We looked closely at the Scottish flag and collages our own to go on top of our castle.
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The Daisies class enjoyed reading today’s story called “Wonky Donkey”. There were lots of Scots words that really made us chuckle. We enjoyed the animated YouTube story and all took turns trying on donkey ear headbands and masks. Then we made a wonky donkey craft.
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The Daisies class enjoyed role playing the shop keeper role. In Thistle Street, there are some shops like bakers, greengrocers and DIY shops. We took turns using the basket and shopping for some items and also had turns being the shopkeeper and using the interactive till.
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The Daisies class enjoyed exploring the thistle. We looked at the colours -green and purple and explored them through a sensory tray. We also painted paper plates green and drew round our hands on purple card to make effective thistle crafts.
