Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class enjoyed their class Hallowe’en party on Friday afternoon. They had a good dance, a game of pass the parcel, COVID safe dookin for apples with some forks and some Hallowe’en treats. They were all too ghoul for school!
We have been successful learners working on our SQA Numeracy Unit, counting whole numbers while enjoying a game of BINGO!!!
HOUSE!!!!
In our SQA Food Preparation – Baking Unit we are exploring the ingredients through sensory play, sieving the flour, using our fine motor skills to look for the small spiders, mice and pumpkins, and exercising our hands.
…well that isn’t a small SPIDER!!!!
“5 little pumpkins”
In Literacy we are working on the letter D, we painted baking trays….
..then pressed our pictures on to them.
Press down with your swatter!
D for Dinosaur
Pumpkin Counting
We continue to work on our SQA Communication Unit matching the characters with their colours.
I lovely morning of Indian Dance with Karen.
Howie was turned into a Dragon!!!
And Logan was a Deer!!!
Making Haunted Houses in Art.
Our IDL Work continues ‘Don’t Waste your Food’
A word from the Vice Eco Captain “Don’t buy more than you need”
Working on our re-use symbol.
Ready for our Halloween Spooky Snack and some Halloween photos – we were too busy having fun!!
Have a Spooky Halloween!!
*Successful Learners* *Confident Individuals* *Effective Contributors*
The Snowdrops have had a lovely week, completing lots of wonderful Halloween activities. They enjoyed sensory activities, a Halloween parade, games, songs and a Halloween snack.
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This week the Snowdrops have been learning about Diwali – The Festival of Lights, and made beautiful Diva Lamps from clay. We then painted them and sprinkled them with glitter. We also looked at Rangoli patterns and made our own from different shapes.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Daisies class have enjoyed a range of Halloween activities this week.
We enjoyed carving pumpkins and used them in a science activity to make them erupt! (See our Science blog for the eruptions)
We made a range of toilet roll Halloween crafts including pumpkins, vampires and Frankensteins.
We played spooky Halloween bowling and used the numbered cups to help us choose which Halloween goodies to taste. We shared whether we liked the taste of these goodies or not.
We made some white chocolate ghosts for a special Halloween snack and loved our goodies from the lunch hall.
Finally, today we loved dookin’ for apples and playing a Halloween hide and seek game.
Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals
The Sunflower’s had an amazing day dressed up in their costumes for Halloween. Throughout the day, each child enjoyed making mummies, building a skeleton and lots of great party games. Everyone had a go at dookin’ for apples, and loved balloon games and dancing. We also played a pass the parcel game and had lots of fun playing with our sensory tower whilst listening to some spooky Halloween sounds.
The Transition class were working hard on their ILP targets and were Successful Learners. They all had their individual literacy or numeracy tasks and worked well at them
Making plans for after school
Matching coins
Reading and showing understanding
Common words
Directional Language
Following directional arrows
This week has been lots of fun in the Bluebells class. We have created many Halloween crafts and had lots of fun at our class Halloween party today.
We carved pumpkins and had lots of fun exploring the insides – touching and smelling them. We made peekaboo cats with chalk which are being displayed outside our classroom. We made spooky cauldrons with lots if different coloured glitter and sequins. The children were confident individuals at choosing their own glitter and sequins for the spooky potion inside the cauldron. We also made pumpkins for the window. We chose different tissue paper to put inside the pumpkin shape and them we laminated them. We put them on out windows in the classroom.
We have been working hard this week to plan our Halloween party.
We were responsible citizens and shared cookery resources to make some spooky themed snacks. We also had fun to create some decorations and carve pumpkins throughout the week.
Today we had a great time participating in lots of party games and were responsible citizens, taking turns with our peers.
The Transition class took part in different types of Hallowe’en Literacy this week. They were all Successful Learners when they completed word searches, CVC spelling, Eye spy sheets and a whole class CVC treasure hunt.
