Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Stars class made mars bar cake which we sold in school for Macmillan Day. There was only one piece left………….and that didn’t last long back in class! We are proud to say we made £9.90 to donate to the appeal. We participated in Friday afternoon activities. We iced biscuits, created a colourful cupcake picture, made a fizzing green volcano and enjoyed sensory handling. A great afternoon was had by all.
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The Bluebells class enjoyed a science activity related to our “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” theme. We managed to make rain clouds in a jar using water, shaving foam and blue food colouring. It was lots of fun!
The Stars class have had a good ‘Play on the longest day’ week. We created nature’s crowns, painted with natural paint brushes, did leaf printing, had a picnic in the garden, planted peas and green beans, did number work, had a colour treasure hunt, played on the playground equipment and had story time. We had a busy and enjoyable week.
The Stars class have planted vegetable plants in the school garden. We have planted peas, courgettes, pumpkins, carrots, onions and potatoes. We keep them well watered and hope we will have a healthy crop of vegetables to harvest after the holidays.
We have been enjoying the nice weather and have been taking parts in water play.
We were Successful Learners and explored the properties of water by moving and pouring water from one container into another. We also enjoyed applying our maths skills to count how many jugs of water it took to fill a fish bowl.
As we have had such lovely weather we decided to make ice cream in bag – which worked really well.
Continuing with our Australian theme we have been making koala art work with newsprint.
Being responsible citizens we have been making sure that our garden area has been well ‘hydrated’ and our plants are looking good.
We had a fantastic summer trip to the Science Centre today. Lots of exhibits to explore and we visited a ‘Fun With Forces’ workshop where we worked with magnets and rockets. Our sociable lunch was pretty good too.
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The Moonbeams class participated in a science experiment where we tried to turn ice into a rainbow. We used coarse salt to create craters in the giant ice bars and then sprinkled with food colouring in the colours of the rainbow.
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The Moonbeams class have enjoyed observing changes over the week to our eggs during our science experiment.
On Monday we put raw eggs into jars of vinegar and left them overnight. The next day, the eggs were left without their shell!
We put half of the eggs into jars of water which grew over the next few days as they observed the water.
The other half were put in jars of golden syrup. The syrup caused them to shrink and shrivel up. Here are our results!
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The Moonbeams class enjoyed an Easter themed science experiment. We boiled eggs and drew faces on them so that they looked like Humpty Dumpty!
We tried to make a safe cushion for Humpty Dumpty so that when he fell, he would not break. We used sugar, cotton balls, rice, lego, tissues and bubble wrap to try and make the bag safe.
The cotton balls, rice and sugar were the best cushions!
