Willowbank School, KilmarnockConfident Individuals
The Sunflower class been able to choose their favourite foods during our ‘Eating the Alphabet’ topic work. Each child actively participated by using AAC devices and our SMARTBoard to choose their preferred food image when working on the letter ‘S’.
Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals
The Sunflower’s had an amazing day dressed up in their costumes for Halloween. Throughout the day, each child enjoyed making mummies, building a skeleton and lots of great party games. Everyone had a go at dookin’ for apples, and loved balloon games and dancing. We also played a pass the parcel game and had lots of fun playing with our sensory tower whilst listening to some spooky Halloween sounds.
Successful Learners
Yesterday in class, the Sunflower’s were given a fine motor skills challenge. Each child actively participated by using tweezers to collect skeletons, bugs, spiders and eye balls from the different jelly bowls. Everyone was encouraged to taste and touch the jelly too and we managed to collect all of the spooky items from our jelly.
Confident Individuals
Over the past few days, the Sunflower’s have loved making bats and spiders during our craft time. Each child was able to add a variety of coloured chalks to their black card to create a bat silhouette. Afterwards, we made a spiders web with foam and loved collecting the spiders from the messy tray. Everyone took part in our paint stamping task using Halloween skull stamps and loved adding glitter to our pumpkins.
Responsible Citizens and Confident Individuals
During our fun Halloween activities, the Sunflower’s enjoyed carving pumpkins with designs of their own choice. Each child actively participated by scooping the pumpkin contents into a sensory bag and moving the seeds around the pumpkin face. Afterwards, we were able to add cereal to our leftover pumpkins to create bird feeders for the garden.
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Confident Individuals and Effective Contributors
The Sunflower class celebrated Diwali yesterday by listening to the story of Rama and Sita. Each child practiced pencil control by following the maze to get Sita home. We then made our own Rangoli patterns using rice and matched numbers to complete patterns too.
Successful Learners
For our topic this term, the Sunflower’s have enjoyed exploring lots of healthy foods. Each child has actively participated by matching the initial sounds to the correct foods. Everyone enjoyed overwriting the letters and food names and decorated their food afterwards. We are currently making an eating the alphabet wall as a class as we go which looks fab! All children have engaged in our phonics songs and hard work tasks during literacy topic time. Well done Sunflowers!
Successful Learners and Confident Individuals
The Sunflower class have been using money in real life contexts by taking part in our role play shopping game. Each child enjoyed using the shopping list to help collect items and add them to the basket. They also practiced paying for the items by putting the correct money in the till and taking their change.
Successful Learners
The Sunflower’s all took part in our Global Goal activity as we focused on the difference between and empty and full plate. All children were able to add foods of their choice to their plate and watch it go from empty to full. We then looked at the difference! Most pupils were able to point to and name the food on their plate too. Some pupils were able to show understanding of a hungry and full tummy using our board visuals.
Confident Individuals
The Sunflower’s enjoyed lots of fun harvest activities this week. Each child actively participated by listening to a harvest story and pointing to the correct images. Everyone loved making their own scarecrow and enjoyed an autumn story massage. The children ended the day with messy play using porridge oats and chi seeds of different textures.
