Willowbank School, KilmarnockSuccessful Learners
| Today, the Sunflower’s took part in a great science experiment, making fizzing Christmas tree’s. All pupils were able to mix baking soda, water and glitter together to make moldable dough. Most pupils were build a Christmas tree with the dough and we then put them in the freezer. Later on, each child poured coloured vinegar mixture over the top. Some pupils could notice the Christmas tree fizz and melt and be able to say the changes that they saw and heard. |
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The Sunflower’s loved celebrating St Andrew’s Day by making Thistles using tissue and glue. Each child also made a Scotland flag by dabbing blue paint using sponges and removing tape to make a white cross. Everyone loved watching a St Andrews animation story too!
We have been creating some artwork relating to our Scottish topic and because it was St Andrew’s day. We ripped up tissue paper to collage the Scottish flag and the centre of a thistle. We then tolerating staff drawing round our hands to create the top of the thistle – it tickled.
We dipped cars into paint and then pushed them along the paper different ways to create our own tartan design.
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For Saint Andrew’s Day we were successful learners and created some lovely art.
Thistles using different colours of wool.
We have enjoyed our Autumn Stories, especially ‘There was an Old Lady who swallowed some leaves’, so we made some cool artwork using coffee filters, felt pens and the water spray.
There was an Old Lady that swallowed some leaves
We also made some lovely suncatchers for the windows
More St. Andrew’s Day Art – Scottie Dog – we made our choices “should they be white or black?”
“Who made all the mess?”
Well MOVE just got a lot more exciting for this young man!!!
Are we ready for the Pine Class Ceilidh??
The DJ is ready…
The Gay Gordons – step in time Boyle.
Forward for 4 back for 4 – great counting!!!
Strictly Come Dancing isn’t an option for us, we would lose points for laughing!!!
Sorry about the lack of photos – but we were all just having too much fun dancing!!
Some links to what we loved as a class.
Ya cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus!
This week in Literacy we are working on the Letter G, looking for lots of words that start with this letter.
Below are a few song links for the letter G, they have one for each letter if you want to have a look.
Beautiful Goose Art work
A flock of Geese!!!
Have a great weekend everyone.
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The Moonbeams enjoyed learning about why we celebrate St Andrew’s Day this week. The children designed some tartan and made a Scotland Flag using white and blue foam. As part of our theme we looked at the colours of our Flag and investigated the colours and designs of flags around the world. The children were excellent at identifying the correct flag from Makaton colour signs.
We have been very effective contributors this past month as we prepared our class and school for Christmas. We have been working really hard on our class performance as well as helping to decorate our class and school for the festive season. This year we have a snowman theme! Here are some photos of us bringing Christmas to the Beech class.
Wooden pallet snowman:
Collage Christmas Trees with Mrs MacDonald:
Festive Snowglobes:
Melting Snowman Biscuits:
Snowman Family Christmas Cards:
Hugh’s Christmas Cracker! Hugh will be writing a joke every day in December and posting on our classroom door to give everyone a Christmas giggle as they walk past.
We made fake snow during sensory art:
We made snowman hat tree ornaments, too:
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We actively participated in many St Andrew’s Day activities this week. We did art work, music, sensory handling, a treasure hunt and tasted some Scottish food. We enjoyed the activities very much.
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The Daisies class enjoyed making a choice of what items to wish for in their Santa letters. We explored the Smyths website and chose 5 items that we liked.
We printed images and cut and stick them into a Santa letter. We practised overwriting our names on the bottom of the letter and are hoping to go and post them next week.
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The Sungazers have been busy celebrating and learning about St. Andrews Day. We enjoyed a Scottish food tasting session where we tried Porridge, Tattie scones, Shortbread & Irn Bru, and shared our opinions with each other. We had some strong favourites within the class & some foods that we disliked too. I’m sure you will be able to tell from our photos which ones we liked/disliked!
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The Daisies class enjoyed a special visit from Santa’s Elf today. He brought some advent calendars to help us on our countdown to Christmas.
We also took turns decorating the Christmas tree and hanging tinsel and lights around the class. It is looking very festive.
