Willowbank School, KilmarnockContinuing our Christmas work, the Transition boys started writing their letters to Santa this week. They were all Responsible Citizens remembering to use manners when constructing their letters. The boys each had a copy of the book of dreams for inspiration.
As it was St Andrew’s Day on Monday, the Transition class studied a Scottish poem called ‘Mince and Tatties’ by J.K. Annand. The boys were all Successful Learners. Activities included, sequencing the poem, matching the key elements of the poem and writing and understanding the poem. Just like the poem, we all thought that mince and tatties were Smashin!
The Stars class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week as we began our Christmas activities. We created a Christmas card, reindeer hand print pictures and wrote a letter to Santa! We enjoyed a Christmas story role play and are having daily visits from a pesky elf!
This week we have been learning all about the letter “d”. We love playing pretend with the dinosaurs in class so we found them and decided to make some dinosaur prints. We dipped the dinosaur in the paint getting their feet covered in paint and then made footprints on a piece of paper. All children were able to hold the dinosaur and were confident individuals making their own footprints on their paper.
The Beech class have been working hard and developing their confidence and skills in literacy this week. Here we are taking part in a variety of activities whilst being very confident individuals.
The boys in Transition were Successful Learners as they worked through their numeracy and literacy tasks. Some tasks were group activities and the boys were Effective Contributors. The literacy and numeracy tasks are beginning to take on a Christmas flavour.
Helping Santa deliver presents numeracy task
Reading and answering about the history of Christmas
This week we are learning about “d”. The boys all love ducks and were so excited to colour and stick feathers to create their own duck. We also used lots of shapes of brown to create a dog. The boys also used purple triangles to create dinosaurs. The boys are confident individuals in copying the action and saying the sounds. They are then successful learners by following instructions and creating their own animals.
Although St. Andrew’s Day is not until Monday the Stars Class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week by learning about him. We made St. Andrew’s flags, enjoyed Scottish sensory handling and did some Scottish dancing. We used broccoli florets to print thistle pictures and enjoyed a Scottish taste and try. Singing Hands visited virtually today. We had great fun!
This week we did lots activities related to the sound “m”. On Monday we were successful learners and made a mouse we added whiskers, a nose and ears to a big brown M. On Thursday we made our own mirror with tin foil and added lots of jewels to make it sparkle. We also explored marshmallows and used spaghetti to make structured and different objects. We stuck eight pieces of spaghetti into one marshmallow to make an octopus. In the afternoon we used different materials to make a green M into a monster. The boys really enjoyed choosing their materials and every monster was different. We also read a story about a silly monster and his friends – everyone listened really well looking at the pictures of the different monsters.
Today we had a very special activity. We signed on to see and join in signing, singing and dancing with Singing Hands today. They sang lots of Christmas songs some of which we have been learning in class. We had our jingle bells out for “Jingle bells” we jingled them along with our friends. We used our interactive song board for “5 little snowmen” which was very fun and we counted the snowmen. Then we had our reindeer antlers on for “Rudolph the re nosed reindeer” and “5 little reindeer” this may be another one we add to our interactive song board collection as we love doing these.
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