Willowbank School, Kilmarnock* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Bluebells have worked very hard this week creating biscuits to sell at the Christmas Market. We used fondant icing and cake decorations to make them look like Christmas baubles.
We are selling them for £1 a bag on Saturday 
We have been learning about different global goals. We watched clips on YouTube about global goals 8 and 9.We are improving resource efficiency by only using a maximum of 2 paper towels. We have also been talking about small businesses around our local area and looking at the shop fronts and signage.
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The Bluebells class learned about where strawberries come from. We looked at where they grow on the map and how they start from a strawberry plant and turn into a juicy red strawberry.
We have been exploring different classroom settings from around the world. It was interesting to find out that not all children learn from within a classroom in a school building. Some are taught from inside tents, some outdoors and some from underneath trees which are used for shade. We had good fun completing activities in different learning environments this week.
Theme Story time in a tent (effective contributors/successful learners)
Literacy Skills
In some countries children don’t have pencils and paper to write with. Instead they use chalk and write on their desks or on the ground.
Numeracy Skills Outdoors
Science activities under the shade of the trees
We have been learning about butterflies in the Sunflowers class. Today we watched a video about what happens. The egg hatches into a caterpillar and eats lots of food before building a cocoon and then turned into a butterfly. We then stuck images from “The Hungry Caterpillar” book in order from the egg to the butterfly.
We will get caterpillars in the new year and watch then grow and then finally turn into butterflies and let them free in the playground.
Every Friday the Sungazers have been successfully making a healthy breakfast and taking it in turns to serve it to their friends. We have also prepared breakfast snacks are served them to our peers in other classes as well. We have all enjoyed making, serving and tasting a variety of different healthy breakfast ideas. Our favourite ones were toast and bagels. 
The Sungazers class were certainly confident individuals dressing up and joining in all of the Halloween activities on Friday. We all had great fun!
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The Bluebells class enjoyed a spooky science experiment. We submerged chicken bones in vinegar and left them for a few days. When they came out, we were amazed that the chicken bones had became soft and bendable!
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The Bluebells class loved carving our Halloween pumpkin. As a class, we brainstormed some ideas of what we could carve into our class pumpkin and finally agreed on a ghost. We all enjoyed exploring what was inside the pumpkin, some pupils choosing to do this using a spoon or some being brave enough to scoop the pumpkin seeds out using their hands.
