Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe have all had a lovely Friday celebrating Christmas Jumper Day 2021
We were all confident individuals taking part in our class activities which were literacy based with a Christmas jumper theme. Then we enjoyed a mini photo shoot with a photo bomber present!
We had fun today exploring chalk art effects to create an Aurora Borealis picture. We explored different creative techniques such as blending and colour mixing to create just the right effect. We were successful learners as we learned about the phenomenon!
We’ve had a lovely Christmassy morning celebrating Christmas Jumper day and helping to raise awareness of the ‘Save the Children’ campaign.
We have been effective contributors as we took part in a variety of activities such as jumper biscuit decorating, designing our own Christmas jumper and playing games.
Successful Learners Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams were learning about the importance of brushing teeth and as part of our theme we mixed some ingredients together to create a reaction. The children all observed the changes once the ingredients were mixed together. They then worked hard together to scrub the ‘Elephant’s’ teeth clean. We also learned some interesting facts about Elephants. Did you know Elephants can’t jump and can live to be up to 70 years old?
Christmas Fun!
We had fun this week making our Christmas Enterprise craft, we made hot chocolate Christmas baubles and a cane cane gingerbread person to go along with our hot drink with a marshmallow surprise hidden in the bauble.
We were all confident individuals following the verbal instructions to make our enterprise items.
We were successful learners writing our letters to Santa and then we enjoyed a walk in the sunshine to post them.
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The Sungazers have been getting into the Christmas spirit with crafts, cookery and science experiments. We have discovered that wraps are a firm favourite in the Sungazers so we made our own simple Christmas pizza wraps.
We had a go at making Snow by adding water to a ready-made mix. We had fun mixing, moulding and experimenting. We also enjoyed trying the Exploding Snowman experiment. It was very exciting but luckily it didn’t explode on any of us!
Happy Friday everyone!
Well we have started getting ready for Christmas in the Pine Room.
During a game of Christmas Bingo were all successful learners, matching up the symbols on our board, practising our Makaton symbols for all the different Christmas things, such as Christmas Tree, Angel, Elf, Snowman and Bell. Below are a couple of links if you want to practise at home.
Singing Hands Christmas Alphabet
Our Christmas Tree is made out of felt, so we can pull off the shapes and rearrange them – we can decorate the tree everyday if we want!!! It gives us another great opportunity to talk about the shapes and practise our Makaton signs.
Oh no Buddy the Elf is back!!!
He is ready for some MOVE today!!!
For Literacy we made ‘glowing’ Christmas Lights in our names, finding the letters, sounding them out and making lovely name plates.
Great work!!
Now lets get decorating!! Spreading the icing, sprinkling different coloured sprinkles, and making shapes.
This was great fun!!
Now for some Numeracy – lets make some reindeers.
Triangles, diamonds…
…squares?
Excellent Work!!!
During Sensory Play we mixed, rolled the plastic balls, exercised our hands and made soap shapes.
In Art we are making Christmas babbles, sticking different textures on to paper plate – we will finish them off next week.
We open an advent parcel every day and read a different Christmas Book below are a few of our favourites.
The Dinosaur that popped Christmas
We love to dance and listen to music in the PINE Room, here a few of this week’s favourites.
Singing Hands – Dominick the Donkey
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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The Daisies class enjoyed exploring today’s Christmas themed sensory activities. We had green filled ziplock bags that had a range of sequins and pom poms inside. The boys had to try squeezing the items around to make it look like a Christmas tree.
We also had a Christmas tree themed sensory tray with shaving foam and food colouring that we had a great time exploring.
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We chose a snowman design then drew round our hands to make felt handprints. We cut out and glittered snowflakes, used paper doilies and cotton wool pads to form the body and used pipe cleaners for the nose and hat. We made a colourful pom pom for the hat. Didn’t it turn out well?
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We cut out flags and ordered them in size, from largest to smallest.
