Santa came to visit us at Willowbank this week, he came with some elf helpers from Whitelees Retreat.
Everyone was happy to see Santa and we all got a flashing light up toy.
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Christmas Art – Family Reindeer
We made reindeer family stone frames for a gift to take home and surprise our families. Confident individuals all round when making these frames. Everyone had a strong opinion about the stones they wanted used for their family, who they wanted in their family frame and even the position / order of their stone family.
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50 Things Outdoors – Go for a walk
We enjoyed a nice cold walk this week to the Kay Park, Cameron could tell us the ‘Pond has froze’ so we watched some ducks enjoy an ice skating session.
We were responsible citizen when crossing the road on our way to the park.
We had a few bird poo incidents thanks to the bridge across the pond, so several of us needed a clean up – including Miss Miller’s face and jumper.
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Hanukkah Assembly
This week the boys have completed a lot of preparation for our sensory assembly on Wednesday. We made potato latkes, which went down well at the tasting station. Everyone was effective contributors in preparing the food for assembly.
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Christmas Time
So Christmas is well underway in Willowbank, Anthony was responsible for starting our concert costumes.
There has been a lovely atmosphere in the class this week, lots of fun interaction between everyone.
Everyone was effective contributors when decorating the classroom. Christmas is about giving and making people smile, so we have started making nice gifts to take home.
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IDL – Our Country
We completed a jigsaw map of Scotland for our IDL topic. We identified all the cities within Scotland and highlighted the city we are learning about, which is Edinburgh.
Confident individuals all around, we listened to the city name and found the correct written word. They had to look at the big map on the smartboard and find the same location on their map once they completed the jigsaw.
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St Andrew’s Day
We have celebrated St Andrew’s day this week at a whole school assembly. We explored directional awareness through Scottish dancing at numeracy time. We started off with a slow dance then built up to the fastest song to finish. There was lots of laughter and successful learners with saying the directions we were moving in.
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In between directional awareness we worked 1:1 on our coin recognition and reading a price tag and handing over the correct amount of money. Jack worked very well during this task.
Keeping with our St Andrew’s Day theme we made shortbread in cooking and then decorated them in class with a Scotland flag on them.
This week we were very lucky and got to go a trip to the cinema to see Spiderman. Everyone was very responsible as it was very busy with a lot of other schools. Spiderman was clearly a very popular film choice for the Into Film Festival.
Meanwhile the rest of the week has been feeling a lot like Christmas in November, everyone worked together and were all effective contributors to create our Enterprise item, Candy cane Elves to sell at the Christmas market.
We pieced together our class igloo and added some lights, we have all had great fun taking it in turn to lie in the igloo and look through the star shapes that are cut out the roof.
Cameron enjoyed pretending to be a walking igloo, once he realised his head could fit through the roof.
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Directional Awareness
We used active learning in numeracy today to bring direction to life. We had fun moving the cars and the adults in the directions that were called out and shown on the cards.
We were successful learners when given gestural prompts for the given direction.
We chose a partner to play a game with, we were confident individuals when choosing a partner, choosing a game and we played the games with minimal adult support.
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Remembrance Day Assembly
Soldier Sangster standing to attention! The Oak class enjoyed delivering our Remembrance Assembly to the Secondary classes on Wednesday.
They all worked very hard and everyone had a part to play. They were all confident individuals and effective contributors in respectfully paying tribute to our fallen soldiers.
