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The Moonbeams class got the opportunity to visit the new sensory activity room in school. Mrs Feeney created this room to help pupils ease tension and preparing them to learn in the classroom.
Today, we explored slam balls, punch bags, weighted ropes, crash mats and sensory body sacks. We really enjoyed this and all chose a favourite activity.
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The Moonbeams class worked together to create a giant flag of Italy. Italy is our chosen country for the school’s ‘Around the World with Willowbank’ theme. We have been looking at places in Italy, learning about Italian foods and even learning some Italian songs.
The Snowdrops have been successful learners exploring the round, circle shape of a pizza. We went on a circle shape hunt around school and spotted lots of circle shapes! In class, we were making circle shapes from play doh, threading circle buttons, touching textured circle shapes and drawing circles on the smartboard. We even noticed our Willowbank School emblem has a big circle around it on the atrium floor – we held hands and sang a circle song around it. Great effective contributions to our activities from everyone!
The Sungazers were encouraged to grow, discover and learn in our outdoor sensory garden. The children carefully measured space for and planted French onions – Responsible Citizens.
We were all successful learners as we made and used a variety of number lines at maths streaming.
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The Moonbeams class enjoyed learning about a famous artist named Pablo Picasso. We looked at some of his famous work where he used shapes to make faces. We used a range of colourful shapes and created some funny faces. What do you think??
We have been having lots of fun exploring Mexico through our new theme. Today we listened to mariachi music, and played along with our own instruments.
We were effective contributors through playing along with our own instruments and were successful learners as we explored two new instruments- Guitars and Drums!
The Bluebells have been successfully learning about protecting our species for this years Earth day awareness. The pupils have been learning that Bees, Elephants, Whales and Giraffes are now endangered. We looked at videos about water pollution and the affect they are having on whales. The children made posters about these animals and selected their favourite one. They told the adults using words and AAC devices how they would feel if there were no more of these animals left.
The Stars class recycled batteries at Tesco’s and were ‘energy detectives’ where we checked that empty classes had remembered to turn off their lights, taps and computers. We built a dark den and read a book by torchlight. Snack time was held in the dark too. This showed us the importance of conserving energy and how difficult it would be without electricity.
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The Moonbeams class successfully made Earth style cupcakes during today’s baking session. We made a blue and green cake mix, mixed them together in the cupcake cases and watched them rise in the oven!
