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Den Making!

In school, we would have been celebrating ‘Power Off Learn Outdoors’ day and Save the Childrens Den Day.

For your home learning challenge, I thought you could attempt to make a den. This can be completed indoors or outside and can be as challenging as you wish. I have attached some pictures below as ideas.

Once your den is completed, can you do some activities in it.

Can you:

  • Have a snack?
  • Read a story?
  • How many people or cuddly toys can you fit inside your den?

I would love to see some photos of your homemade dens, so if you wish, send them along to be added to our pupil blog.

Have fun 🙂

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Home learning and week 3 of 30 Days Wild

Hi everyone.

So this is week 3 of the 30 Days Wild challenge. I hope you have been getting involved. Here is the video.

https://youtu.be/MTHiRPfeGI4

 

This week we thought you could have fun playing a game of balloon tennis with the family. Blow up a balloon and you can hit to each other with your hand, use a racquet or make your own with a paper plate.

 

Do you have jigsaws at home?  Try and see if you can complete one.  All the ladies had fun completing them at home.

 

We know that we all love cooking, so why not help to bake or make a tasty treat. The Sunflower ladies are very talented and made different cakes.

 

And finally we thought you could get a little messy and have fun. Use shaving foam to do some mark making. We had lots of fun writing letters and even a little message for you all. 🙂

 

 

 

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Home Learning – Prom Week!

Hi everyone!

This week would have been a very exciting week in Willowbank!  Not only would we be looking forward to our annual ‘Power Off, Learn Outdoors’ (POLO) day and our annual prize giving assembly but we would also be hosting our very own Willowbank Prom.  Our Prom Committee has worked very hard this year to prepare for our Prom which would have had a Las Vegas theme.  I hope very much that you all will still celebrate by creating your own prom at home this Friday 19th June.  Remember to send your photos to eanicola.murray@glow.sch.uk

To mark these three occasions, I will list some activities that can be completed throughout the week.  As always, these activities are only suggestions and you are under no obligation to do all or any of them.

Have fun and stay safe!

POLO Day 

Home Economics

Explore the garden or local area (if it is safe to do so) and get messy by creating some mud recipes! Here is a link to some ‘Mud Recipes’ that can be created using nature! We have done this activity in school and the young people loved it.

Art

Don’t waste your mud, why not create some art!  All you’ll need are some old pots/tins/cups, a variety of food colouring or liquid watercolour paint, sticks or old paintbrushes, dish soap, paper and mud! Here is a link to the Mud Paint Recipe instructions.

Literacy

Nature name activity.  In class we are exploring letters and letter sounds.  I challenge you to find as many leaves, flowers, twigs, petals, pine cones or acorns as you can and try to make some letter shapes using them!  Can you make your name using just the items you’ve collected?

Numeracy

In class we have been exploring numbers and their value as well as trying to use words like ‘bigger’ or ‘smaller’.

  • Find 5 leaves
  • Order your leaves in order from smallest size to the biggest size.
  • Number your leaves from 1-5, 1 being the smallest leaf and 5 being the biggest leaf. You can us paint, a marker or Tippex to number your leaves.
  • Now try and find; 1 flower – sit it next to the leaf marked ‘1’, find 2 flowers (maybe of a different colour) and sit them next to the leaf marked ‘2’ and so on.

Prize Giving

This is a lovely and creative idea which will allow you and your family to think about all of your achievements and successes or even good days that you have had during the last few weeks.  While there will be a lot of difficult moments or days just now, but it is important that we still recognise the good days and positive moments.  Take some time as a family to think of some of the things you have all achieved – there will be more than you think 😊 Feeling creative?  Make a ‘Family Achievement Tree’.  You could draw a tree trunk onto paper/card and trace your handprints out of paper/card (coloured if you have some – or why not paint the handprints if you only have white paper) and write a success or achievement on the handprint then stick it onto your tree.

 Prom

  • Make a prom playlist! Find out the favourite songs of all your family members and make a playlist for Friday night on Youtube (or any other music streaming service)
  • Make a shopping list (if applicable) of some snacks and drinks you would like to have at your home prom!
  • Make some decorations for your living room – these could be banners, posters or paper chains!
  • Practise your moves! Listen to your playlist and have a dance.  Did you come up with new cool moves?  Why not send a clip of your dancing to eanicola.murray@glow.sch.uk

 

As always, have fun and stay safe.  We miss you all ♥

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Prom Week!

Well, everyone, it is the week of Prom. In school, we would have been taking part in activities related to Prom.  So here are some you can try at home.

Cooking

Can you make some cupcakes for Prom day to enjoy as a treat.  Literacy skills will also be used in this task.  Listen to the adult reading the recipe and then follow the instructions.  Below is the recipe then you can choose to decorate them any way you like.

  cupcake recipe 1

Art –

We would have made some tissue paper flowers in school and gave it to someone special.  Try and make some of these beautiful flowers at home.  Then choose who you give it to, you could go your daily walk and drop it at their doorstep.  This will make someone’s day be very special. Click here to find a tutorial on how to make the flowers.

Also, we will find out who has been made Willowbank Prom King and Queen 2020. Can you make a crown at home and model it around the house.  It can be made from paper of natural items you find out on your walk.  

Literacy –

Draw a large circle on a piece of paper, think of everyone that has been in your class this year.  Can you write all their names inside this circle, don’t forget the adults too! Can you sign their names, by fingerspelling their first initial of their name.  If you need some help click on the link below to find out how to sign the letters.

Fingerspelling 

Can you get an adult to draw an outline of a person and, think about what you would wear to prom. Can you design an outfit, or from your wardrobe pick out the best clothes that you think would be suitable to wear to prom.

Music –

Friday is Prom day, however, if you want to practice some of the dances then below is some from the playlist;

Casper Slide

Hokey Cokey

Conga

Have fun and if you complete any of the activities please email them and we will share on the school blog.

 

 

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PROM COUNTDOWN 2020

Good Morning everyone!

Well, it is the official countdown to Prom 2020 for our four leavers! Our Willowbank Prom would have taken place on Friday 19th June, we do not want this occasion to pass without it being celebrated, as a lot of hard work had been put into the preparations for Prom.

So Willowbank is providing a virtual prom for every pupil and their family.  We would love for as many people to be involved as possible, make your ‘Prom At Home’ special.  Get dressed up, make your favourite snack, and then on Friday 19th June click on the Prom link which will be found on our blog and this will take you to our Willowbank Prom Playlist.

Have fun dancing with your family, take photos and send them to Mrs Murray.  Mrs Murray is hoping to do a video with all your Prom At Home photos. Send them to eanicola.murray@glow.sch.uk

Click here to view a short video that has been for you.

 

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Sports Day

Well done to everyone who took part in Sports Day!

View video here.

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Senses Week Quiz!

As promised, the Beech team are here with an end-of-the-week quiz for you that should finish off our ‘senses’ week’ nicely!

Below is a collage of the Beech ladies each holding an item with a different texture or feeling.  We explored our sense of touch!

To help figure out the answers and further explore your sense of touch, why don’t you see if you can find similar items in your house to what we are holding?

  1. Which Beech lady is holding something squishy?
  2. Which Beech lady is holding something small, shiny and hard?
  3. Which Beech lady is holding something that feels rough?
  4. Which Beech lady is holding something white and soft?
  5. Which Beech lady is holding something crunchy and crinkly? 

How many did you get right?  Let us know by leaving a comment!

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Purple 💜

Well Hello Pine Class!!!

How are you all?😀

This week we are at PURPLE in our rainbow!!🌈

💜🍇🎶☔🟣

Wonder what the Pine ladies have been up to and if they found any Purple??

  • “Hi” Boyle!!! Nice sequins!
  • Wilson’s wee bear is called Blueberry.
  • WOW Jardine is strong!!!!!
  • Aitken is doing some purple art.

So lets see what activities we can do around purple???💜

Cookery 🧁

It is quite difficult to find a purple food but what about Blueberry Muffins?

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Below are a few different recipes you might like to try – remember to send in some photos if you do!

BBC Blueberry Muffins

Mary Berry Blueberry Muffins

Art 🎨 and Science 🧪

Starry Night Glitter Jar

There is a link below of how to make one of these.

You can use a plastic bottle, if you don’t have clear glue that is fine – but don’t use white glue I made that mistake!!

The science bit it that the glue is thicker so the stars and glue take longer to fall – I have put clear glue on my shopping list this week so I can make another one!!

 

Starry jar

galaxy night time jar

This is a link for a site that has a live webcam that shows the Northern Lights over Lapland – check it out!!  Lights over Lapland

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Other Art Activities 🎨

Pinterest have a lot of other ideas below there is a link to some cool ideas.

Purple Craft Ideas

purple cupcake liner flower handy flower toilet roll octopus

Numeracy 🔢 Literacy ✍

Get someone at home  to write out the word Purple in big letters and then you can trace it with your finger or a pencil.

Lets go round your house and count how many purple things you can find? Jardine’s favourite colour is purple so bet she can find lots of things!!!

Even Butterflies!! 🦋🦋🦋

If you would like to make some purple or rainbow coloured rice for sensory play or tracing letter and numbers, I have popped in a link of how to do this. Colouring Rice

Music and Singing 🎶🥁

Purple Song

Film🎥Books📚

If you haven’t seen it what about watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory OR Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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A funny scene is with rude Violet – I won’t spoil it!!

Violet Blows up like a Blueberry!

Or you could start reading the book.

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It’s one of my favourites!!

Or a Story about  Purple the Little Bird by Greg Foley

Purple Little Bird by Greg Foley Hardback Book The Cheap Fast Free Post

Purple Little Bird

Nature 🦜

Some beautiful colours in nature these are two purple parrots posing in Vancouver Aquarium – how cool are they? You can check out their site and watch some of their webcams – remember they are 8 hours behind us! Vancouver Aquarium

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Beautiful Emperor Butterflies Purple Butterflies

Why don’t you do an internet search and see if you can find any other purple animals?

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Not to forget about the Wizard of Oz – Mickeys Clubhouse has a nice wee episode called:  Wizard of Dizz

Willow the Bear 🐻

Hi Pine Class, how are you all?

Well myself and Heather have been doing some online shopping and getting some bit’n’pieces for our new flat – it is really exciting when things get delivered!! Heather says it’s not as exciting for her bank balance – whatever that means?? The postman rang the doorbell and delivered some lovely pictures – and I helped Heather get them on the wall. And then she took me for a walk to ASDA to get some food shopping, I travelled in her bag, because it was quite a long walk and had a wee bit of a sleep. She bought me a new pretty plant to sit on the window sill with me, it is a succulent – so it does not need very much water!! On Saturday Night we watched TV, it was Heather’s turn to pick, so we had to watch another 4 episodes of Grey’s Anatomy!!! I much prefer Frozen – but I suppose we need to take turns so Frozen next Saturday for the tenth time!! Have a great week Pine Class xx

Have a lovely week Pinettes 🌲

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Love the Pine Ladies

xxx

 

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Vibrant Communities Useful Links

Hi All,

Please see some fantastic weekly challenges to try at home from SDS. Also a few videos from one of my volunteers Ainsely and her assistant. Great dance activity. Can we set some challenges to get your pupils to re create these and send in videos.

#GiveItaGO Week 3: Balloon Keepie Up

Week 2 dance with Ainsley and Caitlin

Our Friday activity is dancing 💃🏻 with Ainsley and Caitlin from Dynamite Dance Thanks to funding from STV Appeal to keep us active at home*we do not own the rights to the music

Posted by Ayrshire Sportsability on Friday, May 29, 2020

Dance warm ups

Today’s exercise is Dance from Ainsley and Caitlin from Dynamite Dance 💃🏻 Thank you to funding from STV Appeal to keep us active at home *We do not own the rights to the music Scottish Disability Sport

Posted by Ayrshire Sportsability on Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Thank you

Gary Seymour
Active School Coordinator

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Garden Fun!

Hi Moonbeams, we hope you are all well and staying safe.

Since it’s June and the weather is nice here are some more fun activities to do outside:

 

  1. Draw or write with chalk.

  2. Collect some twigs, grass, stones, petals and make pictures.

  3. MOVE around and explore your grounds in your walking apparatus.

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