Willowbank School, KilmarnockLast week, we were successful learners and followed a visual recipe to collect the ingredients needed.
We were confident individuals, following each step to create ‘Easter nest’ biscuits to share with our families.
Successful Learners Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams have been learning about what it means to be fair. The children identified some Fairtrade foods that they enjoy eating such as chocolate and bananas. They enjoyed exploring coffee, sugar and rice sensory trays. The Moonbeams had a competition to make a cake using Fairtrade ingredients. Take a look at our fabulous cakes.
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
The Moonbeams have enjoyed creating lots of Christmas crafts, cards and letters over the past few weeks to take home to their families. They have concentrated hard on their writing, drawing, cutting, and baking skills. We hope all of the families enjoy their presents.
Some photos from our Christmas Party!
*Successful Learners* *Effective Contributors* *Confident Individuals*
The Snowdrops enjoyed creating a ‘Do You Want To Build A Snowman?’ Christmas gift to send home today.
Pupils were able to select marshmallows, tic tacs, matchmaker sticks and chocolate drops to put into the gift bag. We also were able to count out the correct amounts for each bag and develop our fine motor skills in the process too.
We all had great fun making these gifts and hope our families enjoy receiving them too.
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The Moonbeams have had a great Halloween. The children worked together to make some delicious biscuits and spooky ghost meringues. The children had fun taking part in some games. Take a look at our cool costumes.
*Responsible Citizens* & *Effective Contributors*
As part of our class Enterprise, we grew & made our own snacks to enjoy at our MacMillan Coffee Morning. We started off by planting and growing water cress to make Egg Cress sandwiches. We then made our own Soda-bread and butter – which took a lot of shaking! We made the sandwiches fresh this morning with all of our ingredients.
Some pupils enjoyed the taste of the lemon we used for Soda bread!
We then enjoyed our sandwiches, some treats and tea/coffee this morning! 
Class photos from the Percy Pig display:
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The Snowdrops have been exploring the different fruits that the hungry caterpillar enjoyed eating. We decided to use strawberries to make our own jam roly poly. Everyone showed lots of interest, touching, feeling and smelling strawberries and bread. Pupils participated actively in mashing and squashing the strawberries, using different utensils. We then used a rolling pin to flatten a slice of bread and practiced our spreading skills to cover the bread with our freshly mashed jam. We carefully used our finger tips to gently roll our bread into a roly poly shape. It tasted yummy!
Successful Learners Responsible Citizens
The Moonbeams enjoyed learning about what it means to buy Fairtrade products. They children identified the Fairtrade logo on the ingredients and then created a recipe using Fairtrade bananas.
Effective Contributors/Confident Individuals
The Snowdrops showed lots of interest in handling and exploring different textures and materials to create a Christmas gift. We also used our counting skills to add chocolates to our bags and made confident choices of colours to decorate them. The Snowdrops had to use their fine motor skills to hold and twist pipe cleaners too. Well done, everyone!
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
The children enjoyed looking at Christmas card designs and making a choice of design. The children signed ‘Penguin’ and ‘Snowman’ and chose who they would like to send their card to. All pupils demonstrated their learning successes by tracing or writing their names in the card. Take a look at the Moonbeams magnificent Christmas Cards.
