Willowbank School, KilmarnockChristmas Musical Instruments
Effective Contributors
This week, we have been getting into the festive spirit by making jingle bells to use during our Christmas music time in class. Everyone enjoyed choosing different sized bells and listening to the different sounds they made. We then threaded them and wrapped them to make jingle bell shakers and bracelets. They sound great when we sing along whilst playing them.
Santa Toothpaste
Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals
The Sunflower class thoroughly enjoyed our Santa toothpaste experiment. We were able to add a variety of ingredients and watch a chemical reaction happen. Afterwards, we engaged in sensory play and loved mark making in the foam. The foam grew and changed in colour. The smell was amazing!
Confident Individuals
On Tuesday, our class elf Sonny arrived! We were all really excited to meet him and loved to listen to a story about him. He has been very naughty already! Sonny brought us an elf advent calendar and we are enjoying adding a pompom to his hat each day.
Sonny has helped us get into the Christmas spirit and this week we have enjoyed an elf hunt. We have searched for parts of our coloured elves and built them. Everyone has enjoyed decorating Christmas tree biscuits and Rudolph Reindeers too.
Successful Learners
The Sunflower class have enjoyed building and matching numbers to 20 this week. We have all worked really hard with our number blocks to build number towers. We have also used numicon and counting cards and have searched in coloured rice to find the matching number of objects.
Confident Individuals
The Sunflowers class have had a brilliant time taking part in Children in Need activities. We have been decorating Pudsey bear biscuits and cupcakes, colouring our Pudsey’s and listening to all of his fab fundraising stories. We are all confident individuals and are keen to help others.
Effective Contributors
As part of our Global Goal this term, we have been recycling plastic bottles and paper. Each child has taken a turn at putting our recycling in the bin so that it can be reused and waste can be reduced.
Friday fun!
Effective Contributors
This morning, we used cups and plates to build towers as our class team building challenge. We worked in small teams to make a tower each and then decided to make one large tower as a class. We enjoyed working as a team, taking turns and helping. We also enjoyed knocking it down and everyone helped to tidy up together. Look at our class tower, it was so tall!!!
During outdoor time, the sunflowers class enjoyed using different coloured chalks to make shapes and pictures on the ground. We all enjoyed lying on the ground beside our friends and mark making on the ground. We are effective contributors and enjoyed chalking together to make lovely artwork.
The sunflowers class were being confident individuals and successful learners during outdoor learning. We worked as a team to build creative kites and enjoyed decorating them. We then went out to the garden to fly them. We were able to feel the tension on the string and move our kites in the wind.
This week, we have been successful learners by colouring in Jungle theme images. We have been looking at which colour should be used for each part of the picture and enjoyed colouring in our chosen animals.
