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Halloween Fun!

The Sunflowers have had lots of Halloween fun this week. On Wednesday it was the first sensory assembly for some of our boys. There were lots of activities set up in the hall and we moved around them. We made ghosts with hand prints, made sensory bracelets with coloured pasta, dressed up and were dooking for apples. We had pumpkins to carve in the classroom which was fun. On Friday we make our own witches and Miss Hill used toilet paper to make us look like mummies.

Our party is this afternoon keep a look out for another post with photos from that.

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FAoL Sensory Balamory Art

The boys in the Sunflowers class have been exploring some  sensory art materials. The pupils used super soft cotton wool and pom poms to create these gorgeous Balamory rainbow clouds. We linked  LGBT into our discussion about rainbow colours and talked about what makes a good community like Balamory.

The boys were all given the opportunity and freedom of choice to select their own resources and to self assess using the classroom ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ cards.

Excellent listening and making skills from these super successful learners! Keep up the hard work boys!

 

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FAOL – ECO

We have all been using our class recycle bin. We made a sign for our bin so we knew where to put our bottles and paper. We all have the opportunity to take our recycle bin to the big recycle bins in the corridor. We helped and put the paper in one bin and the plastic in another.  Most of enjoyed having a peer into the bin to see what else was inside.

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Harris McCoo and Singing Hands

We are so lucky at Willowbank School. This week we had special visitors visit our school. On Thursday Harris McCoo visited us in the morning. We all went to the hall to see him dance on the stage with Steven Brown and his friends. Miss Hill and some of the older pupils were at the front too as they had been learning the signs to his special song. We also joined in with some of the signs too.

Today Suzanne and Tracy “Singing Hands” came to Willowbank School. It was amazing. We did lots of singing, signing and dancing.

 

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Looking at different houses

 

The Sunflowers class enjoyed our recent social education outing where we went on the school minibus and drove around Kilmarnock looking at different homes.  We looked at the police station and took a picture to compare it to the house PC Plum lives in. We took a picture of a local shop to compare it to Penny Pocket and Suzie Sweet’s shop. We looked for different coloured house just like in Balamory.

We had a special McDonalds Drive Thru treat too!

 

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Sensory Balamory Rainbows

The boys in the Sunflowers class enjoyed some time investigating the various sensory resources in our art room. There is lots to explore!

Check out these super ‘Balamory’ inspired rainbows which were created using coloured sand, stones, glitter and beads.

Well done to these super successful learners!

 

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FAOL – Enterprise

Last week we had a Macmillan snack morning with all of our friends in the primary corridor. On the Thursday we mixed together green food colouring and icing to make green icing and iced some biscuits and cakes for the event.

We set up a table in the corridor and all shared out our green foods with our friends.

 

 

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FAOL – WHOLE SCHOOL

This was our class assembly. We had been reading the story “The Enormous Turnip” in class and it was about working together to complete a  task, as the farmer could not pull the turnip out of the ground on his own. We all sat at the front of the assembly hall facing our friends. We were able to hold up the different characters in the story. We also made our own enormous turnip to show all of our friends.

 

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Literacy and Art

This week has been quick and very busy. Some of us enjoyed being in for full days and have enjoyed all the fun activities. We have been looking at the letter and sound “S” this week. We did lots of activities about “S”. We enjoyed looking in Mr Tumble’s spotty bag for “s” and things beginning with “s”. We were finding magnetic letters in spaghetti, we made our own spiders and played with the fish swimming in the water.

 

We also had a special job to do. We had to get our foot painted to make something special for later in the year. All the Sunflower boys really enjoyed this and have tickly feet.

 

 

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Sensory bottles and making a house

This week we made our own sensory bottles for our morning group. We chose six – sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy, snowy and a rainbow. We enjoyed ripping and tearing materials to put inside our bottles and then filled then with water. We have been enjoying using them at our morning group with our days of the week boxes.

Today we using images of different doors and windows to create our own 2D house and used “shreddies” and icing sugar as the cement to build our own house.

 

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