Willowbank School, KilmarnockHello everyone! It’s a busy week this week because it’s science week and preparation time for Mother’s Day. Below you will find this week’s learning and also an extra sheet with instructions for a short science experiment. Sorry for the lack of symbols, I had a technical issue!
Have fun and if you want to, send me photos of your science work.
Stay healthy and be kind to each other,
Mr N
Hi Moonbeams, I hope you are all well.
Let’s start our morning off with our Wake Up song. Click here
Literacy – Alphabet Soup
Pour some water into a tub. Add some letters or just the letters of your name. Using a ladle, scoop the letters out and make your name or match letters.
Makaton – Mr Tumble – Spring
Numeracy – Number Towers
Using bricks, Lego or blocks build some number towers.
Can you build a tower with 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 blocks? Have fun knocking it down.
HWB – Exercise and Dance (Try some of these moves or just move about)
If you’re happy and you know it
It’s Science Week! Here is a fun, tasty experiment for you to do at home.
Ice Cream in a bag
You need – about 15 cubes of ice, 2 zip lock bags, 1/4 cup of salt, 1/2 cup of milk, 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Good Morning. I hope everyone is well and keeping safe.
Please find below a few art activities.
Dream Catchers!
Recycled Flower Art
Mrs Macdonald.
Hope you are all happy and well. 
We are in the middle of Fair Trade Fortnight, this is Science Week and Sunday is Mother’s Day. Phew! What a busy week! Find below a few activities you might choose to do, associated with this.
Fair Trade Fortnight
When we buy goods with the Fair Trade logo on it we know that the producer has been paid a fair amount of money to produce it. This means they can afford to pay their bills, buy enough food, clothes and any needed medicines for their families and ensure they can educate their children. Look in your kitchen cupboards and see what Fair Trade items you can find. You might find the logo on sugar, chocolate, cocoa, tea, coffee, ice cream and bananas. How many can you find? You’ve maybe had Fair Trade roses in your house.
Listen to the Fair Trade Mark Song.
Bananas are well known Fair Trade Goods. They are easy to chop as they are soft. How many pieces are you able to chop one banana in to?
You could maybe have a wee competition with your family.
In the game below you can make a peanut butter, banana and honey sandwich. You can find Fair Trade varieties of peanut butter (provided it is safe for you to eat it) and honey too.
Banana Loaf
3 very ripe bananas
3 large free range eggs
100g soft light brown sugar
150ml sunflower or vegetable oil
275g white self raising flour
1 tsp ground mixed spice
1 tsp baking powder
Peel the bananas and mash. Tip into a large mixing bowl and add the eggs, sugar and oil. Whisk to combine.
Add the flour, spice and baking powder and whisk together until thoroughly combined. Pour into prepared tin. Bake for 40 minutes, or until cake is well risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack. Serve warm or cold in slices. Spread with butter if you like.
This Sunday is Mother’s Day but really it is a day to thank all those who help and look after us at home, not just mum’s. Help your mum, dad or carer around the house. Try doing the recycling, dusting, tidying up, hoovering, setting the table or washing the dishes. These are just a few ideas. You do not have to do them all! Just do your best to be a good helper.
Amazing Bananas
You will need:- bananas, lolly sticks, plastic knife, silicone paper and oven tray.
1. Peel and cut bananas in half.
Place the bananas on the tray with silicone paper and put into the freezer.
Wait a few hours for the bananas to freeze.
Take bananas out of freezer.
How did freezing effect the banana’s taste, texture and colour?
If you want you can dip the lollies in chocolate or liquidise the frozen bananas to make healthy banana ‘ice cream’. Yum!
I hope you enjoy trying some of these activities.
Have Fun! Stay Safe!
Hi, Everyone. 
This week is British Science Week 2021! Science Week is celebrated every year in Willowbank so we thought it would be fun to bring Science Week to you guys at home! Below is a list of science-themed activities you could take part in if you wish. As always, only do what you can. Take care! (Feel free to send any photos to willowbank@eastayrshire.org.uk)
Literacy 
Here is a link to a story that is read by one of the great minds of British science – Sir David Attenborough. The story tells us about a journey he made to explore Gorillas in their natural habitat – the jungle!
Your challenge is to explore Jungle animals just like David Attenborough!
On Twinkl Go! There is also a jungle-themed playdough recipe, why not make this and use it make the letter shapes of each animal? E.g. T for Tiger, P for Parrot etc. Your Twinkl Go! passcode is LW6528
Numeracy 
Did you know that the world’s longest and heaviest snake, the Green Anaconda, lives in the Amazonian jungle? This week you are going to make your own snake using the following materials: an old sock or a tea towel; a rubber band; washing-up liquid; bowl; water; scissors and a small plastic bottle.
Follow this link to view your instructions – Bubble Snake STEM Activity
Health and Wellbeing 
Did you know that some of the fruits and vegetables we eat are grown in jungles?
This week, we are going to regrow our own vegetables using only scraps from Mum’s kitchen!
You will need: Water, Bowls, Carrots, Celery, Romaine Lettuce and a Spring Onion.
Follow this link to view your instructions – Regrow Your Own Vegetables
Science 
There are a number of science experiments in your Twinkl Go! Link. Passcode: LW6528
This week we are celebrating Science Week, click on the link below to view some experiments, try them out at home. How many will be successful? Be a confident individual and make your predictions. Science Week.
Also, all our usual literacy, numeracy and Health and Well-being activities can be found on the weekly overview, click the link, 8th March.
It is Mother’s Day on Sunday, can you make your mum a lovely card and let her know how much you ‘love’ her.
Have a great week and remember do what you can, there is no pressure.
We will all be back together very soon!
The Snowdrops enjoyed a zoo themed World Book Day. We enjoyed listening to Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell and meeting the characters of the story. We did lots of great looking at the story book and joined in using signs and words. We also spent time choosing books to look at in class.
In the afternoon, we made a bookmark and chose which Dear Zoo characters we wanted to stick on the bookmark. We then made our hand print Dear Zoo animals. We enjoyed making choices and feeling the paint on our hands.
Happy World Book Day everyone!
Welcome Back Sunflowers!
Our class have loved being back at school and have settled in so well!
For World Book Day, we enjoyed the story of the Wizard of Oz and loved seeing the staff dressed as the characters. Everyone joined in by pointing to the characters and colourful images in our book during the story.
Throughout the day, we were confident individuals and successful learners as we participated in many themed activities.
The class enjoyed designing a yellow brick road, building it with lego and also following a yellow brick road maze with their pencils and fingers. We made the colourful rainbow from the story using shaving foam and paint and ended the day by creating our own tin men using tin foil.
I hope you like our pictures! We looked amazing in our costumes! What a brilliant day!
Hi Sungazers, I hope you’re all safe and well. We are looking forward to being together again soon and having lots of fun in classroom. In the meantime here are some exciting activities for you to try at home with the family under close supervision. Next week is ‘Science Week’ so I’ve included a little ‘Hocus Pocus’ for your enjoyment.
Science – Make a potion
Rinse all plastic containers thoroughly and fill each container with water.
Add a splash of food colouring to each container of water, you an also add some washing up liquid.
Demonstrate making a potion by adding leaves, petals etc, collected from the garden. Mix the different colours to make a potion.
Allow your child to experiment mixing colours and adding different items.
Observe and talk about any floating and sinking opportunities.
See example below –
You will need:
A tray, some plastic bowls
Petals, leaves etc
Soap dispensers, plastic Bottles, and containers
Water
Food Colouring
Health and Wellbeing – Nature Hunt
Draw or write the names of 4 or 5 outdoor items on a piece of paper – eg, a leaf, a twig, a stone, a feather etc.
Place the list in a gift bag with a pen and place it beside the front door.
Take the gift bag outside with the list and go on a nature hunt to find the items listed.
Place the items in the bag and tick off the list.
Alternatively you could have a bag already filled with the items and ask your child to find matching items while on your walk or in the garden.
You will need:
A gift bag
Paper
A pen
Literacy – Outdoor Water Painting
Enjoy the benefits of the outdoors while developing your fine motor skills. Whether you’re making marks, overwriting or writing, grab a paint brush and a container of water. You can use water and a brush to paint onto the shed, the path, the fence etc. Even painting water onto a cardboard box is very effective. Start by making marks then, write letters/numbers, draw pictures. You can even ask your child to overwrite/write their name. Siblings and parents can join in, make it as easy or as challenging as you wish.
See photos below –
You will need:
A container of water
A paint brush
Numeracy – Mini Golf (can be done indoors or outdoors)
Place a cup on its side.
Lay out a mini golf course using cushions to weave in and out (see picture).
Use hard back books to make tunnels or ramps.
Place the ball and club/stick at the starting point.
Demonstrate moving the ball around the course and hitting it into the cup to score.
Take turns , count while one person writes/records how many attempts to get the ball in the cup.
Change the course by adding a trampette, (count the bounces)
Move or remove cushions, tunnels (books) and the hole (cup) to make it easier or more challenging – see photo below.
You will need:
A cup
Cushions
A few large hardback books
A small ball
A tube or a stick (something to use to hit the ball)
Paper and a pen to write scores on – Post It notes.
Welcome back Primary 3!
It’s been a busy week in the Moonbeams class. The children have enjoyed listening to their favourite stories and have been effective contributors and confident individuals while acting out parts of the stories. The children made story boards to demonstrate their understanding of the beginning, middle and end of Goldie Locks and the Three Bears and showed their creative side by designing new book covers and characters.
