Willowbank School, Kilmarnock*Confident Individuals*
We have been celebrating the LGBTQ+ community this week by having ‘Purple Friday’. We dressed in purple and took part in lots of different purple themed activities. We celebrated all the different kids of love and families that exist in our world. Some of our activities included; making rainbow bracelets, making lavender flowers and play dough, painting and sensory writing.
well done, Beech class!
The Bluebells have enjoyed taking part in rainbow activities and listened to My Shadow is Pink all about celebrating being unique. We have taken part in colourful ribbon dance about equality, peace and love. We made a sensory LGBT flag using colourful soap foam.
We have had a great week in comets! We finished our salt dough monsters by painting them and are just waiting for them to dry.
We did some literacy and numeracy games and had fun playing with each other and playing as individuals. We are becoming more confident with the games and are getting a good understanding of them.
We celebrated Purple day as a class and went over what it was and who it was for. We then completed a couple of art activities and did a group photo with our purple torches. We even did a funny face one!
We did more activities for the titanic. We made our own bunting for the class and the display board. We coloured coordinated the titanic and made sure each area was correct to the right colour. We made our own Tickets For the titanic and discussed first, second and third class and we all decided that we would like to be in first class. We watched a video of what the titanic looked like before it sunk.
We went to Kay park to play in the snow and did some sledging. We also played in the snow in the playground. After our snow play we did some life skills – we are learning to tie our laces! Comets are doing great with this.
We have started to look at fair trade and will keep looking at it and doing fair trade activities.
Have a great weekend – The comets class. A 
Successful Learners Confident Individuals
This month the Moonbeams have been learning that we are all different and we have been sharing with our class what makes us unique from our families to our different interests. Take a look at our fabulous activities celebrating LGBT.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS *
The Daisies class enjoyed today’s purple themed activities. We had some purple coloured snacks at the snack table, watched a few cartoon clips of purple characters including Barney the Dinosaur and made a lavender craft.
In the Pine Class we were successful learners in Science, making sensory bottles representing the different types of weather. Selecting different things and using our fine motor skills to put them in the bottles – then making lots of noise.
A confident individual in MOVE working on his sitting skills.
In Numeracy we have been working on addition, using building blocks, coloured bean bags and counting blocks.
SQA Cooking we have been matching up the different equipment we have been using with the different pictures.
For SQA Communication this week we played ‘Inside Out’ BINGO and talked about the different characters and our feeling.
Our new IDL Theme is step back in time and our book is ‘The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr Benn’ this week we read the story about the Red Knight and then made some crowns.
We had a game of Fair Trade BINGO and looked at the different types of Fair Trade products that we could buy.
For LGBT week we have been reading different stories and making some colourful artwork, in preparation for Purple Day.
Have a lovely weekend.
FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT
21 February to 6 March 2022
The Pine Class have been investigating ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’. The focus was on the various fruits which are fairly traded and sustainably sold.
We have been confident individuals learning about zones of regulation and that our emotions can change throughout the day depending on everything that is happening around me.
We have completed a lot of work on feelings and strategies to carry out to help regulate our emotions and make us feel happier.
We created an emotional rollercoaster that we change throughout the day when a situation arises that could cause our emotions to change.
To raise awareness behind the meaning of Fairtrade we were successful learners and found different country locations on the world map. We learnt the Fairtrade food items that come from each country.
We made a Fairtrade tray bake for our Friday afternoon snack, we were all effective contributors when following the recipe.
* CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Daisies class loved exploring todays snow in the playground. We made a snowman and used fruit and party hats to create a face and had a snowball fight!
