Willowbank School, KilmarnockLast week to finish off LGBT month we had Purple Friday. Our LGBT book was “The Family Book” by Todd Parr. we spoke about our own families and enjoyed the colourful pictures in the book. On Friday we did lots of purple activities – we decorated a purple octopus with cheerios and made a colourful rainbow with hand prints. We also tried lots of different purple foods and food in purple packaging. We circled the pictures of the foods we liked.
Let’s have fun celebrating World Book Day!
Choose your favourite book to enjoy and share with a friend. Can you tell someone all about your favourite book?
Have a look at this short video that has been made for you.
Do you recognise the people in the video? Click on the link ‘Willowbank World Book Day’ and select Play.
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Please remember to email any photos of you dressed up in your favourite book character. Email your photos to nicola.murray@eastayrshire.org.uk
Successful Learners Responsible Citizens
The Snowdrops have been busy since coming back to school. One topic we have been learning about is Fairtrade. We watched a video about Pablo the Banana and the journey of bananas. We were using good looking skills to spot the Fairtrade logos on different food packages and we went on a Fairtrade banana hunt. We also made our own bananas using yellow and brown tissue paper, and of course, we remembered to stick on fairtrade logos! Lots of fun learning had by all!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS *
The Planets class looked closely at a range of vehicles that we would see around towns and cities. We read a Giglets story called “People who help us” and spoke about emergency vehicles.
We also sorted a range of transportation into categories showing wheels or no wheels.
Finally, we sorted items into transport we would find in land, sea or air.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Planets class enjoyed welcoming back some of our pupils.
We completed some Health and Wellbeing ICE Pack lessons focusing on emotions. We sorted a range of emotions into positive and negative emotions (worried, shy, excited etc) and then made our own mood monsters.
We also looked closely at one of the SHANARRI indicators about being responsible. We brainstormed ideas about ways we can be responsible and tried to take on some chores around the class.
Finally, we enjoyed celebrating Purple Friday where we tasted a range of “purple” foods including beetroot, red grapes, purple gummy sweets, purple coloured pringles and vimto juice.
Well Hello Pinettes – on this lovely day!!! I can see some sunshine – HOORAY!!!
Well in the BLOG this week we are going to focus on ‘World Book Day’ which is Thursday the 4th of March – March already!!!!
Click here World Book Day to take you to their site for loads of different ideas – you can listen to Hugless Dougless, print out bookmarks, get the instructions to make an Elmer Milk Bottle (Recycling Art!) or spot the difference with those funny Aliens in their Underpants!!! There are lots of different activities.
The Story we have choosen is ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ the reason we picked this story for World Book day is because Julia Donaldson has made it in to a Play. We thought it would be great, as we could use our signing – to sign all the different animal names, use lots of different props and use our AAC Devices to make all the sounds – when we are all back together in class we are going do this!! Hopefully you should all have received your copy please get in touch if you haven’t.
On Thursday morning Vscene we will be reading the play, with all the props and sounds please join us – if you have any props or sounds on AAC Devices and you want to bring these please do! You can dress up if you want – or keep you pjs on – whatever you want!!!
Below are a couple of versions of the story.
What the Ladybird Heard – read by Julia
Julia Donaldson has even got a song!!
Science and the Outdoors – NOW what do you call it a Ladybug or Ladybird?? It can also be called a Ladybettle, Ladycow, Ladyfly or a Ladyclock!! For lots of information on Ladybugs or ……Ladyflies check out the link below. Soon we will being seeing the Ladycows in our gardens!!
Practising our Signing
Dancing and Singing Time
Art – making a Ladybird.
Now there are loads of ways you can do this – depending on what you have to hand – below are some ideas and links – please send us a photo if you make a Ladybug.
We are excited!!!
Zombie said MIAOW and Pixie said PRRRRRR! Logan’s very well behaved dog said WOOF!!!
A good Read? Shaun the Sheep said BAA! And Vixen say WOOF!
The Horse said NEIGH! And the Cow said MOO! And the Pig said OINK! And the Duck said QUACK!! And the Hen said CLUCK!!
Gosh – use your number skills to count how many animals are in this story?
Sadly we haven’t managed to located a Goose – so think Goose everyone!!
Fairtrade Fortnight is from the 22nd of February to the 7th of March
Fair trade is a way of buying and selling products that allows the farmers to be paid a fair price for their produce, and have better working conditions. Trade is ‘unfair’ when farmers receive very low income and have poor conditions while the companies that sell their products make lots of money from them. The Fairtrade Mark was introduced in 1994, it iS awarded to products that are sold under certain fair-trading conditions.
Have you seen this symbol on anything – perhaps bananas, coffee or chocolate – have a look for it.
There is a couple of video links below you can watch which explain all about Fairtrade.
Cookery – what about helping to make this yummy Fairtrade Banana Bread, some mashing and mixing!
Have a lovely week Pinettes
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World Book Day is this Thursday, 4th March. It will be a little bit different this year like everything else right now. However, everyone in Willowbank can still get creative and have fun at home.
Have a look at the power point that has been created, it has some ideas of activities you can complete to celebrate World Book Day at home. Please click on this link World Book Day
On Thursday, remember to look at the blog you may see some familiar faces, or maybe you will not recognise them as they may be all dressed up in their favourite costume. Have a look and see if you can point out people you know.
Please email any photos of you having fun celebrating World Book Day, to nicola.murray@eastayrshire.org.uk
Hi, everyone!
In the Beech class, we have started our ‘Heroes and Villains’ topic! Every week we will also post some activities that will be based around this topic. This week we will focus on a story called ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson. Here is the link to the story for you to listen to and watch.
Literacy 
Here is a link to a Singing Hands video which shows us lots of signs for minibeasts! How many minibeasts can you spot from the story?
This week for our literacy tasks, we are focusing on developing our fine motor skills. Here are some ‘Superworm’ related activities you could try at home that will encourage the use of the small muscles in our hands.
Use cereal or beads to make worm by threading them through a pipe cleaner or string! Make a playdough worm by rolling dough out with the flat palm of your hand. Make a concertina pattern by folding a long strip of paper and then unfolding it to make a wriggly worm shape then try to move it along a flat surface by blowing into a straw at one end of the worm!
Use scrunched up bits of news paper and tuff it into an old sock to create a worm puppet! Lastly, why not make a worm shape out of card or cardboard and lace, thread or wrap string/wool around it to create a patter as shown above.
Numeracy 
Your numeracy challenge this week is to go on a minibeast scavenger hunt either in your garden on during your next walk! On this week’s Twinkl Go! Link there is a template for a minibeast scavenger hunt that you could use, or just ask an adult to identify the minibeast and help to keep count 
If you don’t get the chance to go out a walk, why not use the ‘Eye Spy’ counting activity that is also in the Twinkl Go! Link below.
Twinkl Go! Use the passcode: LW4127
Health and Wellbeing 
What makes a superhero? This is something we will be thinking about a lot in class. What made Superworm so super?
Make a superhero smoothie based on all the qualities that you think make a superhero SUPER! There is a helpful recipe guide within the Twinkl Go! Link but it might be more fun to simply add the ingredients and see what happens!
Here is is a sheet with all the super fruits on it. Choose which fruits you think a superhero would need based on the attribute it has!
Twinkl Go! Use the passcode: LW4127
Science! 
Have you ever made a worm dance? Click on this link to complete an awesome science experiment that will bring worms to life. You will need:
Have fun, only do what you can and stay safe!
Happy St David’s Day everyone. Spring is here and the weather is showing signs of it! I hope you all enjoyed the sunshine on Sunday and got out into it. Sunshine makes everyone feel better. It’s also the second week of Fairtrade fortnight and you have a Fairtrade task as part of your home learning this week.
Here is this week’s work. Home learning 7
As ever, stay healthy and be kind to each other.
Mr N
Spring has sprung!
Good morning, I hope you have all enjoyed the lovely weather over the weekend. How nice to see the sun shining!
Pebble Ladybirds!
Spring Animals!
Andy’s Baby Animals!
Have fun and stay safe!
Mrs Macdonald 
