Willowbank School, KilmarnockHi Everyone
I hope you are well and keeping fit and healthy.
I hope you enjoy taking part in this activity.
Mrs Feeney
Mrs Murray has uploaded five dances to our YouTube channel – that’s a dance for each day of the week!
Let’s get active and keep moving our bodies! We are responsible for our body so being active will help you keep a healthy body and healthy mind.
Get you and your family dancing, look out for Mrs Murray’s dance videos on our Willowbank YouTube channel. At present we have five dances that you can do, so that is a different one for everyday of the week. More are being made so if you have a song request, leave it in the comment section of this blog and I will get a dance made up for you.
Each week I will give you words that you need to spell and write down, with the help from someone at home find out the action from the alphabet exercise sheet below and create your workout routine. You need to complete ten of each exercise or if you want a challenge can you do the action for 30 seconds.
Words for this week; Your own name, family, home, sunshine, exercise.
Another exercise workout for you and your family, below we have 12 exercises. You need to try all 12 exercises, choose a number between 1-12 and perform the exercise for 30 seconds. Keep choosing a different number until you have completed them all. Have fun and get your whole family doing it with you.
This week’s blog challenge is all about numbers!
Using pens, paint or chalk, practise forming different numbers and then count out some everyday objects and correspond these to the numbers you have written. For example write number 6, then match 6 pieces of pasta beside the number.
For an extra challenge, you could try adding numbers together and finding how many ways you can to make the number ten.
Remember, all blog challenges are optional, and can be completed at your own pace 
Here’s some examples:
Good Morning Oak Team! I hope you are all well and below is the details of activity 1 for this week! Remember to leave comments on this post on how you are finding the tasks that are being set.
Activity 1
What do I need? – A bag, blank piece of paper, pencil and a creative mine
On your daily walk or in your garden can you have a look around and find anything interesting that could create a lovely picture.
Empty all your findings onto the ground and sort them into piles of the same items, like below;
Ask an adult to draw a circle at the top of the blank paper, like below;
1) Can you use your material to make a person?
2) Can you make a picture of everyone in your family?
3) How many differerent ways can you a picture of a person using what you have found?
Here are some examples below;
Caterpillar / Butterfly progress
We are on Day 9 of our tranformation cycle of caterpillar into butterfly. They are getting a lot bigger and growing lots of little hairs all over their body.
Good morning Sunflowers,
I hope you had a lovely weekend. This week the Sunflowers team thought we post some activities related to our new theme “A Bug’s Life”.
Here a some activities you could do this week.
The Sunflowers love cookery so you could make some lovely ladybird biscuits to share with your family. Colour some icing red and cover a digestive biscuit then get some black icing for the spots. Mrs Adair and myself even used some edible eyes.
You could also use your fine motor skills to create some caterpillar like bird feeders. Mrs Russell, Miss Burns and myself found some loop cereal in our cupboard and then threaded them through some string and hung them in our garden for the bird. Before we tied them together they looked like caterpillars. Mrs Miller had some help making her bird feeder from her little girl.
We also looked at shapes. Mrs Russell created a shape picture for you to look at and find shapes and I made shapes with different objects in my garden. Can you spot some of the teddies for some of the songs we sing in class?
Remember to have fun. These are optional activities but if you do complete some please add a comment so we know what you have been up to.
Good morning everyone!
I hope that you are all well. All of the Transition staff are very well and have been enjoying this continued great weather. Here are some suggested activities for this week. Please remember that they are suggested activities. If the mood isn’t right or if you have your own activities then please don’t feel you have to do them. Feedback is welcome! As ever, stay healthy and look after each other.
Link to home learning is below
Mr Nicoll
The Bluebells class had begun their new theme before school stopped. We had watched clips from the Jungle Book and got to know some of the main characters.
Remind yourself of our favourite song from the film by clicking the link below…
Activity 1 
Can you go on a bug hunt around the garden or your local area like Baloo and Mowgli did? What did you find?
Activity 2 
This week, have a fruit tasting session. This could be one piece of fruit or a full on fruit kebab like Baloo enjoyed. Was the fruit tasty or yucky?
Activity 3 
Finally can you pretend to be Baloo the bear and have a back scratch. Try and get all of your family to join in too.
Have fun and if you wish, send us some photographs or post a comment on how you are getting on!
Good morning everyone. I hope you are all well and keeping safe. 
This week the Willowbank art challenge is to create some funny faces, using random household items.
Have fun and take care.
Mrs. Macdonald. 
Hope you are all enjoying the good weather. Mrs Gardner and the ladies are all missing Willowbank and the Stars class.
Mrs Gardner’s daughter, Isla, made cinnamon buns. Don’t they look good. They didn’t last long!
Mrs Chisholm went a lovely walk to the Dean Castle Country Park with Evie and Owen where they saw ducks, sheep and a donkey.
At school we were learning about ‘The Great Outdoors’ by watching the DVD ‘Over the Hedge’
Maybe you’d like to do some outdoor activities at home. Choose any you wish to do. There is no obligation. Adapt any activities to suit what you have available, where you can safely access or what interests you. Ask your family to help you.
SPRING TREASURE HUNT
Try and find as many of the things on the following checklist as you can. Maybe you’d like to make a pair of binoculars to help you look!
Checklist – Try and find:-
blossom 
seedlings 
flower buds 
flowers 
insects 
birds 
squirrel 
nest 
green leaf 
NATURES FACE COLLAGE
Collect a selection of stones, flowers, leaves and twigs. Use them to make a face collage. Maybe you could make faces for all your family. Count how many you’ve made.
SCIENCE – How to grow a rainbow
Mrs Westerman found a great way to make a rainbow.
2. Hold paper over a saucer. Add a little water making sure the end of the paper gets wet.
3. Watch as the water creeps up the paper and makes a rainbow.
I hope you have fun doing these activities if you choose to do so. Send a photo or post a comment if you can. It would be great to hear from you.
Have Fun. Stay Safe. 
