Willowbank School, KilmarnockSuccessful Learners Confident Individuals
The Snowdrops have enjoyed more LGBT theme activities this week. We have explored different colours and have made beautiful rainbows. The Snowdrops also showed a lot of interest in our science experiment to see if we could make a rainbow using skittles and water. Everyone was very confident when pouring the water and everyone thought the colourful results were amazing!
Well Hello Pinettes! How are you all?
Well again – what about this weather???
This is LGBT+ Awareness Month and if you have driven or walked past the school you will have seen the LGBT+ Flag proudly displayed.
So this week’s blog is all about our differences and our similiarites
Literacy, Nature, Art and Craft.
Below is a suggestion for a couple of books, some we have read before, but they all have a silimar theme that we are all different in some ways, the same in others but we are all unique.
The Flamingo that didn’t want to be Pink
What about making yourself a Flamingo – the only rule is it cannot just be PINK!! Maryland Zoo has a Caribbean Flamingo called ‘Bumper’ you can learn all about him, find out what he eats and how tall he is, and even watch him and his friends on the live web cam. Maryland Zoo
Next the Rainbow Fish, in this link it is read by Ernest Borgnine (he has been in a lot of Movies!) The Rainbow Fish
What about making a colourful sparkly fish, I will send you all some instructions. What about going onto the internet and seeing if you can find any real rainbow fish.
Last year in class we read Tango makes 3 we really enjoyed this story, so thought you would like to hear it again. This is a lovely story all about two boy penguins called Roy and Silo, then baby Tango comes along. You can look up loads of information on penguins.
One last story The World made a Rainbow 
In the first Lockdown we all made Rainbows for our windows, think about making another one like the little girl in this story. What about a sensory Rainbow with different materials for each colour? ArtBar has some really great ideas!
Singing and Signing
Lets practice signing all the different colours
Numeracy 
What about a colour hunt?
Which colour did you find the least of and which the most?
Now don’t forget it is Valentines Day on Sunday, so what about making a card for someone special – cards are always nicer when they are hand made.
And Friday is Chinese New Year – Year of Ox! Red Ted Art 
has loads of crafty ideas for you to try, you could make a dragon or an Ox.
BBC Facts about Chinese New Year
Remember to check out the sensory sessions below if you haven’t already done so.
Well have a lovely week Pinettes!!
Love the Pine Ladies
xxxx
Oh it is Hallowe’en in the Pine Room.
This successful learner started her week off by working on her writing skills
Using the Feelings Bar to convey how you feel.
Numeracy, MOVE and AAC Devices for these successful learners.
Spooky Counting Songs and Halloween Matching Games – using our Makaton as we go!
Sustainable Development Goal 12(SDG) – We are Responsible Citizens – Recycling, Reusing and Reducing where we can – using the milk carton lids to create art!!
Sensory Flour Play – looking for spiders and other bugs!!!
Working on our Fine Motor Skills – finding tiny Hallowe’en shapes.
Reading ‘Room on the Broom’ a class favourite.
This ECO-Captain says save your paint – wrap it up in a designated zip lock bag for another day.
With our Rainbow Theme we decided to be Rainbow Superheroes – can you guess who is behind each mask?????
The very reluctant Green Superhero!!
Hallowe’en Art with the paint saved from last week – such responsible citizens – SDG 12
Using the different textured brushes was great fun and created lots of different effects.
Hello there!!
Working on our SQA Unit – Recognising a Fictional Character. We have chosen the Colour Monster we like best from the story ‘The Color Monster’ now we are identifying characteristics or features and expressing our opinions about them.
SDG 12 – Recycling the used Batteries and Reusing the Milk Cartons for Halloween.
Our finished textured Art – spooky bats!!
Mr Carl Fredricksen from UP!!
Getting Spooky in the Pine Room!!!!
“Off with your Head!!”
How much fun can we have with a Pumpkin??
Guess Who???
Ready to make some mask???
MOVE – this skeleton is dancing to some spooky music.
Let us in on the joke!!
Have a spooky weekend everyone!!!
In Numeracy we were all successful learners and worked on our counting skills – lots of counting songs and finding a set of classroom objects for each number.
1 Fly Swat
2 Pretty Flowers
3 Rhythm Sticks
4 Musical Bells
5 Different Feelings
6 Pink Flamingos
7 Classmates
Colour Matching – griping the different objects and posting them through the correct slot.
We enjoyed doing some art work and using bubble wrap to help us create some different effects.
The weather was so nice on Tuesday afternoon we got outside in the sunshine and had great fun having a sing song!!
In keeping with our Rainbow theme this week is all about GREEN, and we have started reading a new story called ‘I do not eat the colour green’.
Music and Move with some confident individuals.
Domino Fun
ICE Pack – How I feel? We are continuing reading the story ‘The Color Monster’ – we all decided what colour and what materials to use to bring our Monsters to life!!!
We have also been looking at the changing seasons and made some beautiful leaves for our windows.
We had some fun with bread dough, it is great exercise for our hands – stretching and griping and a fun sensory experience too!
Have a great weekend
From the Pine Class
Hello!! Pinettes – How are you all?
Well today should have been Sports Day at Willowbank, but we hope you are all going to take part in some of the different activities at home.
Collect 7 different coloured items from around your house and then place them around your garden or house – get into teams – first team – start the clock – collect all the items and put them into rainbow order – what was your time?? Now second team – who was quickest???
DONE!!!
Can you do it again and beat your time?
Well what have the Pine Ladies been up to in the sunshine??
Boyle has been doing lots of exercise in her garden – Mr Boyle is getting very good at taking action shots!!
Aitken has out and about and found a big but very pretty plant – name that plant??
Jardine has been helping to build a greenhouse – wonder what she will grow??
Wilson has been doing some planting and getting out on her bike – what do you think she prefers??
Gardening 
Well hopefully the Postman or Post lady has been and delivered you some Sunflower seeds – it would be great if you could plant them and hopefully over the summer the will grow nice and tall.
Just something cute!
A little bit of music for Olaf 
Cookery – it’s too hot lets make ice lollies!!
If you don’t have lolly stick or moulds you can make them up in small plastic cups and add a plastic straw OR put your mixture into ice cube trays.
What has Willow Bear been up to? 
Well Hello Pine Class – hope you are all enjoying the sunshine!
Well Heather has been on Night Shift and I haven’t been too happy about that, because I want to go outside and enjoy the sunshine and she wants to sleep! So I keep trying to wake her up, firstly by poking her, this seems to make her quite annoyed!! Then I did a bit of really loud singing – she didn’t seem to enjoy this either?? So she has shut me in the other room, and told me to practice my keyboard skills, as I have a duet to prepare for with a certain young lady in the Pine Class.
Take Care Pine Class xx
Have fun in the Sunshine Pine Class
The Pine Ladies xx
