Willowbank School, KilmarnockToday was Christmas jumper day at school. We were all confident individuals and wore our Christmas jumpers to school. We had lots of fun and also had our Christmas lunch at school. We had crackers at lunch too and some Christmas music. We decorated our own Christmas jumper outline with lots of Christmas stickers.
Today we made Christmas cards. We painted our feet and added antlers to make them look like a reindeer we then added baubles using out fingers.
We also worked on size ordering, ordering different strips of green paper to make a Christmas tree. We used our fingers to add lights and then added glitter to look like tinsel. We had great fun with lots of smiles. We were all confident individuals putting our fingers in the paint and placing them on the paper.
We collected sticks from the garden and the ladies glued them together to make them look like a Christmas trees. We then used green wool and wrapped in around the tree shape and then added pom poms to look like decorations.
The Sunflower class enjoyed lots of festive fun today to raise money for Save the Children. We loved making snowman sensory bags and joining in with the Singing Hands Christmas Concert.
We had a great Friday on Christmas jumper day, we enjoyed our Christmas lunch and have a huge thank you to Singing Hands for allowing us to view their virtual Christmas Show.
Merry Christmas from the Oak class
We created a rainbow star hanging decoration for our Enterprise craft activity.
We used different shapes to create a rainbow, we had to work on our problem solving skills to complete this task. We were all successful learners in this task.
We enjoyed taking part in our IDL topic work this week. We are learning about Scottish music past and present. Confident individuals all round when sharing their opinions and all actively engaged in the activities.
We created posters to identify the locations that our Scottish artists originated from. We started in Kilmarnock and then used our knowledge of directional awareness to follow verbal instructions to find the next location.
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
The Moonbeams enjoyed learning some facts about elephants this week. We learned that they live up to age 70 and that they are the largest land animals. We also found out that they are very socialable and love their trunks being cuddled. The children were very good at practicing their Elephant Makaton Sign.
The pupils were all fully engaged in our science experiment this week. They poured and mixed the ingredients together and observed with lots of smiles and laughter as our Elephant Toothpaste exploded out of the tube! They then concentrated hard on brushing the Elephants teeth.
The Transition boys were Successful Learners listening to Scottish poetry signing some of the Scottish words and putting the poem in order. Some of the boys read the poem to the rest of the class. Some boys translated the Scottish words so that everyone could understand. Whilst looking at Scottish words, we took the time to read the 12 Scottish Days of Christmas and identify different Scottish items and animals.
Sequencing the poem ‘Mince and Tatties’
A big broon Alsation
Reindeer in the Cairngorms
Sequencing the poem ‘A dug, A dug’
The Transition boys were Successful Learners while doing their numeracy which was Christmas related. Some of the boys played games throwing a dice and counting while others sorted decorations into size order.
Sorting presents by size
Sorting crackers by size.
Sorting candy-canes by size
Sorting Christmas trees by size.
