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The Daisies class enjoyed today’s purple themed activities. We had some purple coloured snacks at the snack table, watched a few cartoon clips of purple characters including Barney the Dinosaur and made a lavender craft.
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The Daisies class loved exploring todays snow in the playground. We made a snowman and used fruit and party hats to create a face and had a snowball fight!
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The Daisies class have been participating in lots of penguin themed activities this week focusing on our LGBT book “And Tango Makes Three”.
We have completed worksheets showing the life cycle of a penguin, completed literacy and numeracy activities linked to penguins, made fingerprint penguin pictures and made penguin paper plate crafts.
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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!
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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.
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The Daisies class enjoyed participating in some Valentines themed activities. We found cartoon characters hidden around the room and had to sort them into loved up couples. We found 12 coloured hearts that were hidden around the room.
We completed a 1-10 number sequencing worksheet and paired the halved love heart dominoes.
Finally, we completed some Kandinsky style heart paintings.
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The boys in the Daisies class are loving our new gymnastics term at PE. Over the last 2 weeks, we have enjoyed developing our balancing skills using balance beams, benches, stepping stones etc. We have also worked on our core by using the exercise balls and peanuts.
We enjoyed comparing our toys and games to those of children in medieval times.
We were confident individuals participating in different games including ring toss, hide and seek, and bean bag toss with our peers.
