Willowbank School, KilmarnockConfident Individuals
To celebrate winter and the snowy weather, the Snowdrops read a story all about a polar bear looking for some fish to eat. We then made our own polar bear faces. Everyone was very confident at following instructions to attach the ears and nose and everyone actively participated in scrunching and sticking tissue paper to make the face look furry – just like the polar bear in our story.
Today it was snowing. We enjoyed watching the big flakes falling from the sky at morning group. We bought some snow inside to put in out tuff tray and explored it with our hands. It was very cold we made snow balls and even added some food colouring to change the colour of the snow. In the afternoon we went outside to the playground to explore the snow beneath out feet. We heard it crunch and it was slippy so we had to be very careful.
Yesterday we explored colours. We explored our colour boxes and matched the correct objects to the coloured box. We also matched the coloured fish to the matching coloured bowl. Some of the Bluebells played a game where they rolled the dice and then put the coloured cylinder onto the balancing ladybird. Some also matched the coloured word on the teddy to the correct coloured top and scarf. We also explored coloured shapes and put them into the shape sorter. We also used different coloured crayons to make marks to colour in our 2022 crowns. Today we used lots of different coloured squares to collage on our 2022 numbers.
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The Daisies class loved exploring the snow today. We loved watching the snowflakes as they fell from the sky, touching how cold they were and rolling and throwing some snowballs!
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The Sunflower’s were very happy to be back at school and together again. Yesterday, we talked about the new year and had a go at signing “Happy New Year!” to our friends. Each child then took part in an art activity by placing the numbers in order or matching them to make a 2022 on their card. Everyone loved using a variety of chalk colours to decorate their picture and removed the numbers to create a silhouette effect.
Last wee bit of Art before we finish.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
from Everyone in the Pine Room
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The Transition class were Successful Learners applying their numeracy and literacy skills in a combined task. The class read a Christmas story pulling out key events. They then had different time lines to match to clock faces. The class worked really well despite it being the end of term! Well done everyone!
In our last dance session of 2021 the Transition class were Confident Individuals. Everything that we had previously used was on offer and we were all very tired after putting in lots of effort. Well done everybody!
The Transition class had lots of fun taking part in the Singing Hands Live Concert. They all signed, waved their light up tambourines and danced all afternoon! They were all Effective Contributors.
The Transition class had a great time in our class Christmas Party. We all had a shot at some ‘Bush Tucker Trials’ trying to rescue chocolate sprouts from jelly, cold noodles, cold baked beans and rice krispies. The reactions of the class were very funny. We also enjoyed some party games before opening our presents from Santa. Merry Christmas!!
