It is here, it the day of PROM!
Click here to view your Prom at Home Playlist.
Have a great day and remember to send in your photos.
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Tomorrow Tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow it’s only a day away!
Get ready for Willowbank Prom at Home! Tomorrow there will be a link found on here that will take you to your dancing playlist!
Get all the family together, have fun, dance, and enjoy your favourite snack.
Remember if you take any photos then please email them to Mrs Murray as we would love to share your Prom photos with everyone.
eanicola.murray@glow.sch.uk
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Den Building Day
Hi Snowdrops
I hope you’re all having fun doing outdoor activities as part of POLO day and Den day. The ladies in the Snowdrops Room have also been making dens in their gardens or indoors. We thought you might like to see them. If you get the chance, send us a photo of yours! Have fun, stay safe.
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Natural Paintbrushes! 🖌
Hello everyone. I hope you are all keeping well.
This week the art focus is to create paintbrushes from natural resources. As it is POLO week, you may wish to use items which can be found outdoors. For example, twigs, grass, leaves, herbs etc. You can also use mud instead of paint!
Take care and stay safe.
Mrs Macdonald. 
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Outdoor Learning
Hi Moonbeams,
This week I would like you to continue having fun outdoors!
Here are a few suggestions:
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Tuesday the 16th of June
Hello everyone,
It’s the second last week of term! How did that happen? It has definitely been a different term at Willowbank. This week we would have had two big activities. The prom was meant to be this Friday and we would have had a POLO (Power Off Learning Outside) day as well. The activities for this week are a mix of the two events. I hope that you have lots of fun doing them.
Here are this week’s activities Home learning 16th June
There will be a virtual prom at the end of the week. I have listed some of the dances that we will be doing but feel free to make your own playlist and your own amazing dance moves. Send pictures of you at your virtual prom.
Stay healthy and be kind to each other.
Mr Nicoll
This week in school would have been our POLO week ,where we take our learning outdoors without the use of electricity or technology.
Polo day runs along with save the children Den day so for your first activity this week I want you to get creative and build a den inside ( if wet ) or outside .. use chairs , blankets , tables anything you can think of .
Here are some examples
Once you have built your den do something fun like read a story in it , or have a picnic
Activity 2
If you decide to have a picnic maybe you could make a sandwich to eat , or get creative and turn your fruit into a picture .
Activity 3
I would like you do do some art using materials from your garden , you can make anything you like .. I asked the ladies in the class to make some pictures as examples so let’s see if you can guess what Mrs Collins , Mrs Johnstone and Miss Taylor made .
Last task this week is to take your shoes and socks off and try walking on grass .. did you like it ? How did it make you feel ? 
If you try any or all then as always we have loved seeing your photos so send them in . Have fun
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Stars Activities 9
Hi Everyone. Hope all is well with you. All the Stars class ladies are doing fine and enjoyed the sunshine this weekend. 
This week is POLO (Power Off Learn Outside) Week at Willowbank so we thought you might like to do some of the activities we’d be doing at school.
CD Wind Spinners Ornament
You will need – old CD, string or ribbon, PVA glue, sequins, buttons, glitter, scissors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-lk66d2m4
Mrs Chisholm made spinners with her daughter Evie. Aren’t they good?
Garden Treasure Hunt
Collect……..
5 stones
8 pegs
2 gardening gloves
6 weeds
1 trowel
3 plant pots
7 daisies
9 twigs
4 leaves
10 buttercups
Write the number beside the bundle of things you’ve collected using twigs, chalk or painted on the slabs with a paintbrush and water.
Also – Make a circle from stones
Make a triangle from twigs
Leaf Name
Write your name from some of the things you’ve collected or write with chalk. Get your family to write their names too.
Mrs Logan was busy with her children writing their names. Looks like they want to be in the Stars class too!
Paper Plane Challenge
Make and decorate some paper planes with your family. Who’s plane can fly the farthest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ReNKZiZNc
Mrs Westerman made some paper planes with her wee grandson, Liam. They used pages from his colouring book. Liam had great fun flying his planes.
We hope you choose to do some of these activities. Remember to send us your comments or photos. We’d love to hear how you are getting on.
Have Fun! Keep Safe! 
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Power Off, Learning Outdoors
Good Morning 
This week we would have been taking part in POLO day and completing lots of outdoor learning activities.
Below are some activities you can try at home, in your garden or when going out for a walk.
- Walk barefoot on grass. How does it feel?
- Have an outdoor picnic with your family.
- Blow some bubbles and walk through some bubbles
- Make colourful drawings on the ground using chalk
- Collect some natural material such as flowers, sticks etc. Press them into some playdough or clay, then remove them, to create a natural picture
- Create a stick raft and see how far it can travel. Collect lots of sticks and tie them together with the help of an adult. Place your raft in water and give it a little push. Does it float?
Have fun
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Orange and Blue🧡💙
Pine Class we have been missing you all so much that we had to take drastic measures and make a little version of you all!!
Well we are at our last two colours of the Rainbow!!!!
So we are going to select some different activities involving these two colours.
It is also POLO week – Power of Learning Outdoors – so we are going to include some activities you can do outside too!!
Cookery 
I think blue is even more difficult than purple so we will leave the cookery to orange.
So what about some carrot soup?
- Can help wash the carrots and other vegetables?
- Can you help peel?
- What about chopping and grating?
- Can you hear the soup bubbling away?
- Now it is cooked – what does it taste like – is it yummy?
Below are links to a few different recipes you may like to look at OR you may have one of your own REMEMBER to send in photos and your recommendations.
Everyone is making Banana Bread just now what about Carrot Cake for a wee change??
Animals and Nature
You may have noticed quite a lot of bees just now – bees are an important part of our world, they help to pollinate plants that create the food that we eat.
They is a link below from the BBC which shows you a wee video explaining the importance of the bees.
And below is another link giving you ways you can help the bees – see if there something you can do in your garden? Another outdoor learning activity for POLO week.
Below is a clip when the Lion meets Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin-Man in the Wizard of OZ!
Lions and Tigers and Bears – oh my!!
You can watch some Lions and Tigers and Koala Bears!! On the live Web-Cam from Edinburgh Zoo – you do have to be patient the animals are a wee bit shy!!
Have a look around their website too, did you know they had 2,500 animals and is cost £2000 a day to fed them!!
What kind of Fish is Nemo?
A Clown Fish
What kind of Fish is Dory?
A Pacific blue tang fish, which aren’t always blue!
Now who wants to watch the movie Finding Nemo?? 
What about other Blue and Orange Animals? Have a look on the internet and see how many different blue and orange animals you can find? Did you find more orange or blue??
Arts and Crafts
We have use potatoes to do stamping and printing in the Pine Room and all enjoyed it – so this is a nice easy craft for you to do at home all you need is a potato, a knife, some paint and paper.
If you want to follow the theme try Orange printing and create something different. Citrus Printing
For our Blue Craft – paint a paper plate blue and create something – perhaps a blue animal? Let’s see what you make – check the internet for inspiration!!!
Story Time 
We all love Julia Donaldson – so if you haven’t read it for a while what about reading ‘The Whale and the Snail’ or use the link for Mrs Rutland reads….
Some other POLO Outside Activities:
- Shadow Drawing – we do this quite often in the Pine Class and all enjoy it, you do need a sunny day ( let’s be hopeful!!!!)and some chalk, but you can draw around anything that that creates a shadow – your dog, a plant pot, a garden gnome, a barbie doll, a box of cereal. Leave the object in the same position and later in the day draw round the shadow again – is it different??
- Making a Garden Picture – using things you can pick from your garden, then create a lovely picture, like this one from The Craft Train
Music and Dancing 
I have linked a fast song and a slower song – whatever you feel like!
This week should have been the School Prom – so on Friday Night you are all encouraged to have a dance and get dressed up if you want!! 
Willow the Bear 
HELLO Pine Class – How are you all? Did you have a good week? Did anyone make Blueberry Muffins from last week’s blog? I love Blueberry Muffins so if you do please send me some!!! Heather doesn’t bake!!! I have been watching some ‘Reality TV’ while Heather has been at work – Jardine and Boyle send me recommendations each week – Heather would prefer I watch something more educational! We have been tidying up her wardrope, I have great fun hiding in her piles of clothes and then surprising her!!! We had a wee cup of tea before she went off to Night Duty last night BUT we ran out of biscuits!!! Heather says if I moan once more about the lack of Custard Creams I am getting sent by Royal Mail back to Willowbank!!!
Have a great week Pine Class
Love Willow xxx
P.S. Send Custard Creams!!!
Have a Great Week Pinettes
Lots of the Love
The Pine Ladies
xxxx
