Tag: outdoor learning

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 19^th 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