Willowbank School, KilmarnockLast month we were very busy boys making our crafts for the Christmas market. We made DIY snowman kits. We added marshmallows for the bodies, and sweets for the arms, nose, eyes and buttons. We had to put all the objects into the bags and the we used our labels stapled to the top.
The Sunflower boys had lots of fun today. We had a special visit from Artie this morning and enjoyed a lovely Christmas performance. We loved singing and following the actions given. We then played with the construction toys together building towers. In the afternoon we used foam pictures and added them to our Christmas jumper outline to create our own Christmas jumper.
The Sunflowers were given the freedom to select and choose which colours they wanted to use for their artwork. The boys all worked together and shared the resources well.
Everyone was able to self assess at the end of the lesson and we all enjoyed the ‘Well Done’ song after each pupil presented their work.
Confident individuals today! Superb!
On Monday we went on an outing to Gemmell’s Garden Centre. We all wore our Christmas jumpers to get in the Christmas spirit. We loved the soft play and had lots of fun climbing and sliding down the slides. We had a snack and our lunch inside the party room. It was a lovely lunch. The ladies enjoyed their lunch too.
We went for a look around all the Christmas lights and Christmas trees. We loved the snowman seat which was a little wet and looking at the ice rink.
We were all involved in creating our Christmas craft for the school Christmas market. We bought our ingredients for our snowman kits. We helped to press the buttons on the photocopier to make the labels and helped to fold and attach them. We were able to count out the number of each item and add them to the bag. We all have great fun.
Today the Sunflowers class created these lovely Santa pictures. The pupils were given support to cut out a triangle, rectangle and semi-circle shape. They then built these up to make a Santa face and used a curly pipe cleaner and white paint to paint a beard. The boys presented their hard work to peers. Lots of happy faces today!
Super successful learners.
Check out these silly Christmas stockings designed by the Sunflowers class! The pupils used different coloured wool and wrapped it around a stocking shaped template to make a pattern.
Excellent work boys! You are all successful learners.
The boys created these lovely Scotty dog pictures by layering various coloured and textured paper. We discussed our favourite colours and used this to help inspire unique tartan designs.
Successful learners! Keep up the hard work boys! 
On Friday afternoon we decorated our class Christmas tree. The boys had fun building the tree, putting on the lights, putting on the tinsel and adding all our lovely baubles. We worked together to complete the task each taking turns.
This week we had a sensory assembly all about St Andrew’s day. We tried different Scottish food and we painted our hands and created a class thistle picture. There were different sound boxes which we had to listen to and match to the Scottish character such as Katie Morag, Balamory and The Proclaimers.
Today we made our own Scottish flags using tissue paper and did some fine motor work following the different lines using our pencil.
