Willowbank School, KilmarnockEffective Contributors/Confident Individuals
The Snowdrops showed lots of interest in handling and exploring different textures and materials to create a Christmas gift. We also used our counting skills to add chocolates to our bags and made confident choices of colours to decorate them. The Snowdrops had to use their fine motor skills to hold and twist pipe cleaners too. Well done, everyone!
Winter Silence pictures created by The JAMBECS,
Confident individuals who can photograph their own artwork. Superb!
The pupils in the SQA Technology have been busy creating artwork and photographing their designs. Here is a look at what they have been doing over the past few weeks…
The Sungazers were Successful Learners as they participated in a variety of festive maths activities.
They enjoyed ‘Christmas I Spy and Count to 10’ and completing ‘Advent Calendar Maths’.
The Transition boys have been working like Santa’s Elves getting their Christmas Craft ready. They have been Confident Individuals working with different techniques to make their finished product. No peeking until Christmas though!
Continuing our Christmas work, the Transition boys started writing their letters to Santa this week. They were all Responsible Citizens remembering to use manners when constructing their letters. The boys each had a copy of the book of dreams for inspiration.
As it was St Andrew’s Day on Monday, the Transition class studied a Scottish poem called ‘Mince and Tatties’ by J.K. Annand. The boys were all Successful Learners. Activities included, sequencing the poem, matching the key elements of the poem and writing and understanding the poem. Just like the poem, we all thought that mince and tatties were Smashin!
The Stars class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week as we began our Christmas activities. We created a Christmas card, reindeer hand print pictures and wrote a letter to Santa! We enjoyed a Christmas story role play and are having daily visits from a pesky elf!
This week we have been learning all about the letter “d”. We love playing pretend with the dinosaurs in class so we found them and decided to make some dinosaur prints. We dipped the dinosaur in the paint getting their feet covered in paint and then made footprints on a piece of paper. All children were able to hold the dinosaur and were confident individuals making their own footprints on their paper.
In the Oak class we have been getting into the Christmas spirit. We were effective contributors during our music lesson. We all had a boomwhacker and together we had to wait and listen until it was our turn to play the note to create the tune of ‘Jingle Bells’.
We took part in lots for art activities to create some lovely Christmas crafts. We were confident individuals when choosing the items for our Santa wish list.
