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During our IDL theme “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, the Bluebells class have looked closely at the weather. Today, the class had a challenge to see if they could read and recognise any weather words. They used the SMARTboard and matched the word to the picture and then had to sort the jumbled up letters to create the words sun, snow, rain, wind and cloud. Miss Gemmell was very impressed with our reading skills!
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The Bluebells class enjoyed a spooky science experiment. We submerged chicken bones in vinegar and left them for a few days. When they came out, we were amazed that the chicken bones had became soft and bendable!
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The Bluebells class have enjoyed watching a few clips of “Funny Bones” during Halloween week. We decided to create our own funny bones skeletons and really enjoyed doing this!
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On Friday afternoon, the Bluebells class enjoyed moving around the infant classes and enjoying a range of spooky Halloween activities. We explored a spooky sensory carpet and many sensory trays where we had to find insects, rats and bats!
We also made spooky Halloween biscuits and had fun dooking for apples!
We got to choose whether we wanted to make a ghost or cat craft and finally enjoyed playing spooky bowling, pin the nose on the witch and pin the eye on the monster!
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The Bluebells class loved our visit from the Singing Hands ladies. We sang lots of songs including Baby Shark, If You’re Happy and You Know It and You Cannae Shove yer Granny Aff a Bus.
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The Bluebells class loved carving our Halloween pumpkin. As a class, we brainstormed some ideas of what we could carve into our class pumpkin and finally agreed on a ghost. We all enjoyed exploring what was inside the pumpkin, some pupils choosing to do this using a spoon or some being brave enough to scoop the pumpkin seeds out using their hands.
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The Bluebells class enjoyed making bat cupcakes during our cookery session. We also used dairylea triangles to create ghosts! We had great fun!
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The Bluebells class gathered information from all of the pupils and staff in Willowbank school. We went round all the classes and asked everyone what their favourite weather was.
We counted our findings and put these on 3 charts. One showing the Infant corridor’s favourite, one showing the Middle Primary’s favourite and one showing the Secondary Department’s favourite.
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The Bluebells class enjoyed learning more about scarecrows this week. We loved acting out the Dingle Dangle scarecrow song and enjoyed assembling our very own scarecrow heads.
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The Bluebells class loved our visit to Kilmarnock Pets at Home. We had to be very quiet when we were visiting as we did not want to scare the animals. We met a few dogs that had been in for their haircuts and also loved seeing bunnies, guinea pigs, rats and lots of fish!
