Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe sun may have disappeared but the Transition class were full of cheer when they collected in the school sunflower seedlings to plant into the sunflower meadow. They were Responsible Citizens bringing the whole school together by germinating sunflower seeds before making a joint meadow. Hopefully they will flower before we go on summer holiday.
The Transition boys were tasked with checking the new gazebo was working when it was delivered this week. They were Responsible Citizens and made sure that all parts were delivered and it went up and down properly. We look forward to using it with the whole school.
This week we completed lots of different Easter activities. We used our hands to make different animals to make some Easter cards. We made a chick and a bunny rabbit. We had an egg and spoon race on Monday in the classroom – we tried to balance the egg on spoon first before we added in walking. We also decorated some Easter baskets and added some delicious chocolate eggs.
Today we had an Easter egg hunt in the classroom looking for lots of chocolate eggs hidden around the room. We also wore our chick head pieces we made to our virtual assembly today. We danced to the “Spring chicken” song and played our instruments to other songs too.
This year was a little different to our usual. We dressed up in costumes and did our nativity story in class. We all got to choose a character and put it on in front of our big stable on our board. We listened to the story and followed some instructions moving to the correct place at the correct time. We did lots of other Christmas activities in class to that will added together to create a video for our parents to view.Yesterday we had a special visit from Santa. He came to the playground and gave each us a sack full of presents for all the friends in the Bluebells class.
We were all dressed smartly for our class Christmas party. We danced and played games and had lots fun. We were confident individuals and danced with our peers and were able to freeze and become statues with the music stopped. We were able to pass the parcel to our peers and pull off one layer when the music stopped until last layer when the winner opened a book.
Today we had a very special activity. We signed on to see and join in signing, singing and dancing with Singing Hands today. They sang lots of Christmas songs some of which we have been learning in class. We had our jingle bells out for “Jingle bells” we jingled them along with our friends. We used our interactive song board for “5 little snowmen” which was very fun and we counted the snowmen. Then we had our reindeer antlers on for “Rudolph the re nosed reindeer” and “5 little reindeer” this may be another one we add to our interactive song board collection as we love doing these.
Today was Children in Need. Some of us were confident individuals and dressed in spotty Pudsey spotty clothes and others wore our casual clothes. We were confident individuals using our finger to make some spotty patterns for our Pudsey ears.
Yesterday we were successful learners learning about Diwali. We viewed a powerpoint with pictures and then made some Rangoli patterns with rice and also with foam shapes. We also made lovely lanterns to take home.
We made poppy to commemorate the people who fought in the war. On Tuesday we made small poppies that we taped to our jumpers for our assembly on Wednesday. On Wednesday we added different materials of red to the middle of a poppy shape and laminated it to make sun catchers for the window in our class. We also mixed icing and added red food colouring to make a poppy biscuits.
This week has been filled with lots of Halloween fun. On Monday we did lots of fun Halloween dances. On Tuesday we did Halloween Science activities. We placed orange and green sweets around the edges of a plate and used a water dropper to fill the middle with water. Some pupils were able to use the water dropper and then watch and the colour moved to the inside of the plate creating a pumpkin. All pupils enjoys watching the colour move. We also make pumpkin fizzers again some pupils were able to use the droppers and add vinegar to the experiment with gestural support.
On Wednesday we made mummies. All pupils were able to hold the string and be supported physically by staff to wrap the wool around the person shape to make the mummy. Some pupils were able to participate actively wrapping their wool independently with only spoken support.
On Thursday we went on a wet ghost hunt in the garden. We all collected our jackets with little support and then walked to the garden. We then all looked for little ghosts that were hiding in the garden. Everyone was able to find one and bring them back to class.
Today we dressed up and had a Halloween parade and showed the other infant classes our costumes.
