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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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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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We watched power points and discussed reasons why people might be hungry and needed to use Food Banks. We made a poster showing reasons which included poor crop yields due to pollution and drought. We did a science experiment where we grew two trays of cress, one watered by ordinary tap water and the other watered with a water and lemon juice mix which depicted acid rain. The seeds watered with acid rain developed poorly which showed how pollution can effect crop growth for farmers.
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The Comets enjoyed creating these shaving foam rain clouds. We gathered all of the items needed for the experiment using a list and listened to instructions carefully.
Before we started the children made predictions on what they thought might happen during the experiment. There were lots of discussion around the weather and what happens when real clouds get too full.
The children were all effective contributors and tidied up the equipment and their work stations afterwards.
Today we explored balance by building castle inspired towers using different materials.
We were successful learners and observed the towers wobbling, carefuly adjusting the pieces to make them balance again.
We had a lovely Christmas Jumper day in the Pine Room and Friday means ‘FRIYAY DISCO!’ and lots of MOVE.
Are you dancing?
Have Mustang will travel!
A lap of the room and back to the board to put on some good tunes – no more ‘Let it go’ or ‘Baby Shark’ PLEASE!!!
Now for some science, we were successful learners using bicarbonate of soda and vinegar in a zip lock bag to make growing snowman heads!
Waiting….
What cool outfits!
‘What are you having for lunch?’
We have a Santa in the Classroom and everyday as part of Numeracy we pop a balloon on his beard – our Countdown to Christmas!
We have been doing lots of Christmas Counting too here is a few favourites.
Ready to PARTY Pine Class! A wee game and lots of dancing – MOVE too!!!
Few Songs we are loving this week.
I Ho, Ho, Hope its Santa Claus
All I want for Christmas is you
Sensory Play or is it just messy play!!
Literacy – Some of the books from our Advent selection this week that we really enjoyed.
Santa’s Twelve Days of Christmas
The Unicorns are coming to Town
Santa and Joannie the Elf played us a wee visit all the way from the North Pole! Photos will be sent out.
Little bit of Craft.
We all had a fantastic time listening to Singing Hands.
Well have a fab weekend everyone.
We did a Christmas science experiment in class. It was called Santa’s magic milk. They were all able add glitter to the milk. Most pupils were able to use a dropper to add a small amount of food colouring and some pupils can pour the milk into a shallow dish.
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The Daisies class had great fun with our science experiment today. We decorated zip lock bags with snowmen faces. We added 3 teaspoons of baking soda to the centre of a piece of tissue paper and wrapped it up. We placed the tissue paper parcel in the bottom of the ziplock bag. Finally, we added a cup of vinegar and then had to be very quick to zip our bag up!
We observed the zip lock bag filling with air and puffing out. We absolutely loved this!
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The Stars class have created wonderful craft work to decorate the Willowbank atrium. We have made a colourful snowman wall display and lampshade angel. We have also decorated a wooden snowman as directed by the Transition class. We made tasty cheese and ham toasties at HE and learnt how to make an egg float at science time. We have also been practising hard for the Willowbank virtual Christmas showcase but these photo’s are ‘secret’ for the moment!
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We quickly learnt that a single strand of spaghetti is very weak and breaks easily. However, if you place them closely packed together they form a strong bond. They are stronger bundled together horizontally rather than vertically.
