Willowbank School, KilmarnockThis week we have been practicing our phonics and today we focused on the letter ‘T’. To kick start the holidays, we had a ‘T’ party at afternoon snack time. We loved pointing to the letter, sounding it out and singing our phonics songs today. Happy holidays!!!
The Stars class have been responsible citizens tidying our planter and been confident individuals enjoying being outside in the playground. We have also been doing literacy and numeracy work in the garden. Thought you would like to see how Colin the caterpillar has grown.
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The Planets class completed a step by step drawing session of an owl. We were very proud of these drawings!
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The Planets class enjoyed a step by step drawing session creating an alien and a spaceship. We were very proud of our work and put them on our Amazing Work wall.
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The Planets class have been very busy this term. We have been decorating our new classroom and familiarising ourselves with each other.
As part of an ICE pack challenge, we looked at similarities and differences in ourselves, sorted our peers into eye colour and hair colour categories and made pupil collages of themselves.
In the Pine Room we have continued with the yellow part of our Rainbow Theme, we made some beautiful stained glass effect stars for the class room windows – lots of glitter was used! We read the story ‘Yellow is my Color Star’ again and make our own colour choices.
For Science we are being successful learners and learning all about Bees, so we finished our bee pictures and watched a little bit of ‘The Bee Movie’.
We are continuing with ‘The Colour Monster’ and looking at our feeling, we all took our turn in picking a colour and painting our Colour Monster – isn’t he cool!!! And have started making a display board all about the Colour Monster and his feeling jars.
Confident individuals / Successful learners
Its been a busy few weeks in the Bluebells, we have all settled in well and have enjoyed getting to know our new friends. We have been learning lots of songs during morning group and trying hard to learn some of the signs for them.
Our main focus has been on the first three letters of the Jolly Phonics Scheme, these are S A and T. We have enjoyed lots of fun activities relating to these. We really enjoyed making Tigers and playing in a Tent this week.
Here are some photographs of what we have been been making….
Look out for more of our hard work in the coming weeks as we like to keep busy in the Bluebells.
The Stars class were successful learners this week when doing our Eco work. We learnt about some boys and girls living abroad who had to go to work so were not able to go to school. We are very thankful we are able to go to school living in Scotland. We were responsible citizens when voting for Pupil Council posts. Good luck to all the candidates. We formed initial letters of our names using twigs from the garden and at theme art did leaf printing and created a raccoon and porcupine for our ‘Over the Hedge’ wall display. At science we made a fizzy volcano.
The Sunflower Class have loved being back at school and have settled in so well.
This term our theme is ‘The Jungle’. We have loved playing in our jungle sensory corner and feeding our jungle monkey banana’s.
During our outdoor time, we have been collecting leaves and have used crayons to complete a leaf rubbing activity.
We also enjoyed making snakes for our jungle wall and really scary lions! We even helped the animals find their tools and food!
Well over the next couple of weeks we are going to be concentrating some of our time on the colour Yellow.
Well in our story Yellow believed that she was the most important bringing happiness, joy, warmth and laughter to the world. The sun, moon and stars are all yellow and looking at a Sunflower makes us smile!
Mrs MacDonald made us smile when she made beautiful sunflower pictures in art with the class, we were all confident individuals rolling our marbles in the yellow paint to create a beautiful effect.
Our cress has also grown well – as we remembered to water it everyday!!! Hope you all liked it.
We are starting a short story called ‘Yellow is my Color Star’ and this is helping us make colour choices and in colour sorting activities in Numeracy. You can find this story online and listen to it being read.
We are still working on ‘The Colour Monster’ and this time it is the turn of the Yellow Monster – Happiness!!!
Have a Great Weekend
The Pine Ladies
