Willowbank School, KilmarnockChalk Art
We have experienced making marks on the ground using chalk. We have explored making shapes and colourful pictures. We were confident individuals holding the chalk and using it to make marks on the ground outside our classroom.
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Today in the Snowdrops we have been very active in the classroom and outside in the playground. We have enjoyed dancing to our morning group songs, playing games outside and we created a class poster about the importance of MOVE within our school.
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As part of our Eco/Sustainable Development work on Good Health and Wellbeing (move and smile more), the Snowdrops have enjoyed participating in lots of different movement activities.
We have enjoyed outdoor games and activities such as playing with a ball, riding bikes and exploring other playground equipment. In the class we have had good fun participating in sensory MOVE activities, Scottish dancing and songs, active numeracy and literacy tasks as well as class yoga sessions.
Today it was snowing. We enjoyed watching the big flakes falling from the sky at morning group. We bought some snow inside to put in out tuff tray and explored it with our hands. It was very cold we made snow balls and even added some food colouring to change the colour of the snow. In the afternoon we went outside to the playground to explore the snow beneath out feet. We heard it crunch and it was slippy so we had to be very careful.
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.
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As part of the Snowdrops outdoor learning, we have been exploring and having fun with kites. Everyone has had the opportunity to observe a kite flying and feel the tension on the strings. Some pupils have also been able to fly the kite independently as well.
In class we also enjoyed designing our own kites to make a lovely class display.
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As part of our Eco targets and Globals Goals this year, we took on the challenge of making Eco friendly pumpkins. We had great fun carving our pumpkins and creating autumnal artwork with them. We then decided to turn our pumkins into bird feeders.
It is good fun carving pumpkins but we are really wasting food if they are just left to rot. By filling them with bird seed we are helping to reduce our food waste footprint whilst also feeding the birds that visit our sensory garden.
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The Sungazers have enjoyed listening to a variety of stories outdoors over the last couple of months. The have experienced story time in the summer sun whilst sitting together on the grass as well as story time sitting on our picnic benches during the nicer autumnal weather.
They have also explored stories using props such as sensory materials and puppets and enjoyed sharing books with their friends. 
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The Sungazers enjoyed carving pumpkins as part of our Halloween activities this week. They then enjoyed exploring the sensory garden, collecting lots of autumnal materials to decorate their pumpkins. Everyone was really engaged in this activity and designed wonderful autumnal pumpkin creations!
This week has been National Maths Week. We have been doing lots of fun maths activities .
Today we were confident individuals choosing numbers to create an abstract face.
We also did some role play. We love number songs and do them during our morning group – counting to 5. Today we were effective contributors and were the monkeys on the bed jumping up and down with monkey masks. We took it in turns to fall off and pretend to bump our head. It was great fun.
We were also confident individuals using the SMARTboard this week. We played a teddy game giving the teddy a specific number of cakes. He said “YUMMY!!” when got it right. It was lots of fun.
Certificates are in school bags today.
