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The Bluebells class had an amazing time during Willowbank’s Science Day. We had lots of volunteers visit the school with some amazing activities including the planetarium, electrical circuits from Dumfries House, stomp rockets, robots and model heat engines!
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The Bluebells class enjoyed observing the changes that take place during today’s Science experiment. We filled a cup with still water and a cup with sparkling water and added some raisins. We noticed how the raisins in the still water sank to the bottom. However, the bubbles in the sparkling water helped the raisins to ‘dance’ by bobbing to the surface. We got very excited by this!
We were also brave enough to taste the sparkling water which some of us had never tried before. Most of us didn’t like it.
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The Bluebells class actively participated during our recap of the Jungle Book film by pretending to be the different characters. We did this using masks and through roleplay. We also demonstrated our understanding of the film by sorting the scenes into the correct order.
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The Bluebells class had a great time today on a bear hunt. We had a picnic in the Dean Park before going a long walk searching for a bear. We used our binoculars and found some tracks and had great fun searching and listening for the bear. A few times, we were sure that we had heard some rustling in the trees and got a bit of a fright when Mrs Vernon jumped out at us!
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The Bluebells class have enjoyed reading a new story this week. We read the true story called “And Tango Makes Three”. The story takes place in Central Park Zoo where two male penguins Roy and Silo meet and fall in love. They are met with some challenges along the way but the story ends up with them having a daughter named Tango and they are a loving family of three.
We really enjoyed reading this story and we also researched pictures of the real life Roy, Silo and Tango before creating our own using shapes and coloured card. Finally, we found some online penguin themed jigsaws which we have enjoyed doing.
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The Bluebells class have enjoyed celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight. We have looked closely at the fairtrade logo and enjoyed drawing and colouring our own on the SMARTboard. We also used fairtrade chocolate to make chocolate crispy cakes. We shared them with all of our friends in the Infant Corridor. They were yummy!
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The Bluebells class enjoyed today’s Valentines themed science activity. We used loveheart sweeties and placed them in different liquids. We enjoyed watching what happened! Some fizzed up and some remained the same.
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The Bluebells class enjoyed making Valentines cards this week. We made one to send home to our families and also made one for a friend in school. We posted them in the school postbox and were delighted to receive some cards this morning!
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The Bluebells class went on a walk to our local Scotmid shop. We had a challenge to find items that had the fairtrade logo on their packaging.
Next week, we are leading a Fairtrade Fortnight assembly so we have been looking closely at the logo.
We managed to find fairtrade chocolate bars, tea bags and sugar in Scotmid.
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The Bluebells class enjoyed meeting Oscar, a Hungarian vizsla today. He was only 10 months old and we had great fun playing with him. He was very soft and friendly!
