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The Daisies class have enjoyed this week’s rainbow activities to celebrate LGBT History Month. We enjoyed a science activity making rainbow bubble snakes.
We used a plastic bottle, sock, elastic band, some fairy liquid and food colouring to set up this science experiment. We loved catching the bubble snakes as they appeared out of the bottle and some of us were brave enough to try it with our own water bottles.
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The Daisies class enjoyed making fruit kebabs today. They tried to add fruit that showed the rainbow colours and used strawberries, bananas, satsumas, blueberries and green and red grapes. We enjoyed practised our cutting skills with the knife.
We also practised our painting skills and painted a rainbow.
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During the month of February, Willowbank School is celebrating LGBT month. We had spotted the rainbow flag flying outside the school during our local area walk last week. Today we decided to centre our science activities around rainbows.
We used a torch and shone it through a glass of water and looked for rainbow colours. We looked closely at CDs and looked for rainbow colours reflecting in the light. We blew bubbles and looked for rainbow colours as we popped them.
Finally, we used skittles and poured hot water on them and watched for rainbow colours forming. We were very happy with the results!
Some photos from last week’s Chinese New Year Activities.
Some Winter Art for these confident individuals.
This week in Numeracy we counted and ordered coloured Hearts – just in time for Valentines – what successful learners!
We had fun in SQA Cookery -sieving, mixing and shaping heart shaped biscuits.
SQA Communication we are still working on Inside Out and painted paper plates different colours, purple for the character Fear and green for Disgust.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!!!
We did lots of heart activities for Valentine’s Day. Yesterday we made cards by painting our hands and making a heart shape and made love heart bird feeders. Today we were confident individuals using heart paint stampers to create a bright heart designs on black card. We also used crayons to colour in heart shapes focussing on our pencil control. We also got to use the hole punch using our fine motor skills to push down to make holes in our red heart shape.
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We celebrates Chine New Year recently by having a sensory afternoon in class where we explore all things Chinese.
We made a traditional Chinese drum, attempted to write numbers and animals in Mandarin using dough, paint and coloured rice and listened to traditional Chinese music. We also had great fun attempting to make our very own fortune cookies! It wasn’t a very successful venture but we loved giving it a go!
Bird feeders
Yesterday we threaded cheerios onto pipe cleaners and then tied them together to make a love heart shape. Today we took them into the garden and hung them on the trees for the birds. Next week we will go out and see if they have been eaten by the birds over the holiday weekend.
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The Snowdrops have been experiencing activities relating to our LGBT topic. They all showed lots of interest in our story Giraffes Can’t Dance. Just like the animals in our story, we are all different and everyone responded really well to creating their own dance moves! The Snowdrops have noticed the different colours in the LGBT flag and created their own flags using different coloured textures.
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We created lovely Valentine’s cards to take home and made tasty Jam Heart biscuits, They tasted really yummy! We also made Ice Ornaments for the garden. We collected buds, leaves and flowers then froze them in water, not forgetting to dip string into the water before freezing. We hung them in the garden where they sparkled in the sunshine before melting.
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Logan and John loved today’s rebound therapy session. Logan was practising his sit to stand, tuck and star jumps. He was listening and responding to Mrs Feeney’s instructions very well.
John enjoyed his session where he was bouncing independently and when holding a member of staff’s hands.
