Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Bluebells have enjoyed learning about the Hindi festival of Holi. The children loved that it was a colourful festival. We scrunched up lots of different coloured tissue paper and added them to a tree trunk design to make a colourful tree. Some were confident individuals and able to identify each colour the were placing on the tree.
Yesterday Mr Campbell spoke about St Patrick’s day at assembly and his background on the screen made him look like he was in Dublin. Today we went for a rainbow hunt in the garden. We came back to class made the rainbow and found a pot of gold at the end. We then all enjoyed a gold chocolate coin.
We also used a fork to paint a beard on our very own leprechaun. We enjoyed using the fork to make it look like the beard and hair. We then added a green hat to our leprechaun. Some of the pupils were able to independently use the fork making a beard. We then used a pencil to create a face for our leprechaun some had big smiles and some even had big eyebrows.
We did lots of heart activities for Valentine’s Day. Yesterday we made cards by painting our hands and making a heart shape and made love heart bird feeders. Today we were confident individuals using heart paint stampers to create a bright heart designs on black card. We also used crayons to colour in heart shapes focussing on our pencil control. We also got to use the hole punch using our fine motor skills to push down to make holes in our red heart shape.
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.
We had lots of fun in the Bluebells class today.
We got our picture taken in the atrium in front of the the lovely snow scene. We had great fun with out new speaker in soft play and did lots of Christmas jumper crafts. We created our own Christmas jumper used stampers and stickers and also created our own giant Christmas jumper in our tuff tray. We are looking forward to more Christmas crafts next week.
We have been creating some artwork relating to our Scottish topic and because it was St Andrew’s day. We ripped up tissue paper to collage the Scottish flag and the centre of a thistle. We then tolerating staff drawing round our hands to create the top of the thistle – it tickled.
We dipped cars into paint and then pushed them along the paper different ways to create our own tartan design.
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The Daisies class enjoyed creating a snowman craft using their foot print. The boys all loved having their foot painted and found it very tickly.
This week we explored poppies and made lots of different poppy pictures with different collage materials.
We also had fun in the garden on a Remembrance hunt looking for different pictures that were hidden. We marked them off to see if we had found them all.
This week we have been exploring fireworks and bonfires. We ripped tissue paper to make the flames on the fire and added strips of brown for the wood. We also make firework pictures with cotton buds we made lines with paint and then sprinkles glitter on top to make them sparkle. We also added icing to bread-sticks and dipped them into star sprinkles to make little sparkles. They all enjoyed tasting them too.
We practiced our fine motor skills by making s’mores by threading marshmallows onto wooden skewers.
The Bluebells enjoyed making food rockets, they were very tasty.
We had lots of fun creating some Autumn art with leaves we collected from the garden. We explore the different shapes and colours and then used them to create a mane for the lion. It was lots of fun. The children we confident individuals and able to choose which leaves they would like on their artwork.
Staff then supported by using sticky clear seal to cover the artwork to keep the leaves on the page.
