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IDL evidence HWB

 

The Asteroids did a super job of using potatoes to make and mash and create a potato autumnal hedgehog.

We all tried peeling our potatoes and chopping them into small pieces ready to cook. We also helped peel a carrot and then the teachers chopped them into small pieces to make eyes and noses. Next job was to chop our sausages into small pieces to make hedgehog prickles. We all enjoyed this job the best and some of us couldn’t resist a wee taste! 🙂

We used our mashers to mash the potato and enjoyed seeing the potato squeeze through the different shapes in the mashers!

When the mash was ready, we helped make a hedgehog shape then began to arrange our sausage slices to make prickles. Last job was to pop on the chopped carrot eyes and noses. Job done!

Don’t they look great? 

Some of us were confident individuals and tried them. Yum! The sausages were by far the favourite part.

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Eco Friendly Pumpkins – Waste management

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As part of our Eco targets and Globals Goals this year, we took on the challenge of making Eco friendly pumpkins.  We had great fun carving our pumpkins and creating autumnal artwork with them. We then decided to turn our pumkins into bird feeders.

It is good fun carving pumpkins but we are really  wasting food if they are just left to rot.  By filling them with bird seed we are helping to reduce our food waste footprint whilst also feeding the birds that visit our sensory garden.

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50 Things – Story Time

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The Sungazers have enjoyed listening to a variety of stories outdoors over the last couple of months.  The have experienced story time in the summer sun whilst sitting together on the grass as well as story time sitting on our picnic benches during the nicer autumnal weather.

They have also explored stories using props such as sensory materials and puppets and enjoyed sharing books with their friends.

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50 Things – Autumn Art

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The Sungazers enjoyed carving pumpkins as part of our Halloween activities this week.  They then enjoyed exploring the sensory garden, collecting lots of autumnal materials to decorate their pumpkins.  Everyone was really engaged in this activity and designed wonderful autumnal pumpkin creations!

 

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Celebrating Diwali

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The Asteroids celebrated Diwali this morning – the Festival of Lights.

We practised the Diwali Makaton sign and learned about the different things people do to celebrate Diwali. One of these being creating a Rangoli to place at their front doors. These are very colourful and we made our very own using different shapes, pom poms and glitter. We even threaded some beads to make tassels for it! We enjoyed celebrating light over darkness by having our own sensory light experience inthe classroom.

Well done, Asteroids!

 

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Favourite Weather Pictograph – IDL – Mathematics

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We used a spray for rain, fan and ribbons for wind and a torch for sunshine to discuss the weather. Afterwards we chose our favourite type of weather using symbols. There was no real preference for any type of weather among the class.

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Diwali

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We were busy doing Diwali activities today. We watched a powerpoint to tell us all about the ‘Festival of Light’ then afterwards made salt dough and used this to create diva lamps. They have yet to be dried and painted but they’re looking good already. We watched Diwali videos and made colourful Rangoli pattern window decorations which looked wonderful with the sun shining through them.

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RME Diwali

We have been learning about Diwali the Hindu festival of lights. The Bluebells enjoyed a sensory story where we explored sensory props and took part in role play to learn about the celebration. In the Bluebells the children were confident individuals following instructions to make diva lamps. We were successful learners when we created rangoli patterns using different art materials including rice, sand and paint. Mehndi patterns are a traditional Hindu hand decoration we used crayons to create our own. A massive congratulations to the Bluebells who won the rangoli competition.

 

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Global Goal 2 – Zero Hunger

This term we have been learning about Global Goal 2 – Zero Hunger.

We discussed how we could do our part to help with zero hunger.  Is there anything we can grow at home to help with meals.  We explored the process of growing our own vegetables and create a  poster of the vegetables we can grow at home.

We were successful learners in starting the growth of some carrots and radish, our spinach didn’t quite work. We are all very happy and proud that we managed to get some food growing.

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Climate Change Conference

All school in East Ayrshire took part in a Climate Change Conference.  The Transition and Oak class had their own Climate Change Conference.

We had lots of successful learners and effective contributors throughout the full day.  We meet virtually to discuss our day and enjoyed sharing a video on climate change.  We had an action and got stuck straight into bringing our action plan to life.

Work will continue over the next few weeks and preparations are under way for our whole school assembly on how Willowbank are going to do their bit to help towards climate change.

We looked at energy, waste and the natural environment.  The oak class were responsible for making new bright attractive posters for each classroom within the school.  These are to remind everyone about turning off all electrical devices when not in use.

Our classes enjoy walking outings, so we are proposing that on each class walking outing, we take part in a ‘clean up my community’ by litter picking whilst out our walks.

Willowbank will be making use of old materials and turning them into a festive decoration surprise, that can used again each year.

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