Willowbank School, KilmarnockAt cookery yesterday we made rat biscuits for the year of the rat. We made grey icing to cover the biscuit then we added a white chocolate button for a nose, two edible eyes and the fizzy laces for his whiskers. The children were able to confidently choose each item they needed to make their own rat.
It was out class assembly this week. We sat at the front of the assembly hall facing all our friends. Our assembly was about Friendship. We shared what we like to do with our friends in the Sunflowers class. We made our own friendship recipe and someone from every class helped. We were confident individuals and chose a friend to give a lovely friendship card we had made to.
Well Done Sunflowers!
This week we made kilts using strips of paper to create a tartan design on them. We also used paint and rollers to create a paint tartan design. We had to roll the roller in a straight line to create our designs. 
Our new theme is based around Scotland. We have been reading Hamish McHaggis and the great Glasgow treasure hunt. We then matched images from the book. They included places like Pollock park, Kelvingrove Museum and Riverside Museum, It was great fun. We looked at each of these places and the different things we would see if we went there.
Today the Sunflowers were invited to the Willowbank café run by some of our secondary pupils as part of their enterprise groups. The children were confident individuals going to the lunch hall at snack time which is very different to our usual routine. They were able to look at the menu and choose what they would like to eat and drink. They all sat really well and waited for their food. We also sang good luck to Miss Campbell who is leaving the Sunflowers today. Good Luck Miss Campbell in your new adventure. The pupils working at the café also did a lovely sing and sign to the music that was playing. It was really good. I think the Sunflowers will be super excited when we get an invitation to go again. 
Yesterday we sang some songs, and did the bean bag rock song. We had to place the bean bag on our head, elbow and toes.
We also investigated different musical instruments. We had to shake some instruments and hit others. It was great fun.
The Sunflowers had a wonderful time at the Christmas party and all looked lovely in their outfits. We even had a special visit from Santa. Some of the class opened their gifts and they received a book and selection box.
The year we all participated in our school nativity – Away in a manger. We all tried on costumes and participated in the school performance of the Nativity rehearsals. We performed the nativity in front of an audience of pupils and the parents and helped to make props. Some pupils have been learning the song words and some signs. It was a fabulous show and the pupils worked really hard. Well Done everyone!
Today we all wore our Christmas jumpers. Everyone had a different Christmas jumper on. We designed our own Christmas jumpers using stickers and had lots of different Christmas materials and objects in the tuff tray to design our own Christmas jumpers too. In the afternoon we joined with the Daisies and had a fun afternoon making sock snowmen, watching a Christmas film and helping to make a gingerbread house. It was a wonderful day.
The Sunflowers have been very busy making Christmas crafts. We made our own Christmas cards using strips of coloured paper.
At cookery we made trees using cones and used icing to make melted snowman biscuits.
