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We chose a snowman design then drew round our hands to make felt handprints. We cut out and glittered snowflakes, used paper doilies and cotton wool pads to form the body and used pipe cleaners for the nose and hat. We made a colourful pom pom for the hat. Didn’t it turn out well?
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The Stars Class made ‘spinning’ poppies which we used to embellish a Remembrance poster for the classroom door. We made tasty iced poppy biscuits, split pin poppies as well as stopping for a 1 minute silence. We talked about why people buy and wear poppies.
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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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The Stars class enjoyed many Macmillan day activities. We made Percy Pig cakes, took Percy photo’s, made pig masks, decorated a large cake and had sensory water and foam play. A happy, fun filled, day.
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We made butterfly cakes to celebrate our success at prizegiving. They were really tasty. We also had a great time at the Singing Hands Beach Party. We dressed up and enjoyed singing, dancing, actions and afterwards, ice lollies! Fantastic Day.
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We had a fantastic Superhero Day celebrating MOVE. We enjoyed superhero cupcakes and created masks. We played games using the Captain America shields we made yesterday and enjoyed a super villain game. We danced, did exercises and watched the MOVE video which showcased all the great MOVE activities we do at Willowbank. A very happy day.
The whole Stars class were delighted to be back together again this week, especially as it involved Red Nose Day. We did lots of activities including making faces, icing biscuits, creating superhero masks, playing promethean board games and doing a red volcano experiment. We even enjoyed a red nose and spoon relay race! We had great fun.
Although St. Andrew’s Day is not until Monday the Stars Class have been successful learners and effective contributors this week by learning about him. We made St. Andrew’s flags, enjoyed Scottish sensory handling and did some Scottish dancing. We used broccoli florets to print thistle pictures and enjoyed a Scottish taste and try. Singing Hands visited virtually today. We had great fun!
Hi Everyone. Hope all is well with you. All the Stars class ladies are doing fine and enjoyed the sunshine this weekend. 
This week is POLO (Power Off Learn Outside) Week at Willowbank so we thought you might like to do some of the activities we’d be doing at school.
CD Wind Spinners Ornament
You will need – old CD, string or ribbon, PVA glue, sequins, buttons, glitter, scissors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-lk66d2m4
Mrs Chisholm made spinners with her daughter Evie. Aren’t they good?
Garden Treasure Hunt
Collect……..
5 stones
8 pegs
2 gardening gloves
6 weeds
1 trowel
3 plant pots
7 daisies
9 twigs
4 leaves
10 buttercups
Write the number beside the bundle of things you’ve collected using twigs, chalk or painted on the slabs with a paintbrush and water.
Also – Make a circle from stones
Make a triangle from twigs
Leaf Name
Write your name from some of the things you’ve collected or write with chalk. Get your family to write their names too.
Mrs Logan was busy with her children writing their names. Looks like they want to be in the Stars class too!
Paper Plane Challenge
Make and decorate some paper planes with your family. Who’s plane can fly the farthest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ReNKZiZNc
Mrs Westerman made some paper planes with her wee grandson, Liam. They used pages from his colouring book. Liam had great fun flying his planes.
We hope you choose to do some of these activities. Remember to send us your comments or photos. We’d love to hear how you are getting on.
Have Fun! Keep Safe! 
Hi everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the good weather. 
Tuesday 2nd June should have been our Sports Day. Willowbank staff have been very busy filming and taking photographs of races you could try. The Stars class ladies had a ‘dressing up’ race. Hope you enjoy it!
This week we thought we could have our own wee sports day at home with a few races and a picnic. It would be nice to make some butterfly cakes for your picnic but if you can’t get the ingredients why not make some sandwiches instead. You could cut them into fancy shapes.
BUTTERFLY CAKE RECIPE 
100g butter, softened
100g caster sugar
2 large eggs
100g self raising flour
1 level teaspoon
baking powder
ICING – 175g butter, softened
350g sifted icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
INSTRUCTIONS –
** Don’t worry if you can’t find any icing sugar in the shops to make buttercream icing. A spoonful of jam or lemon curd in the centre will work just as well.
RACES
If you don’t see any races/activities you want to do on the Willowbank video then maybe you could consider welly throwing (who throws their welly nearest to the target – the target could be a teatowel), water race (fill a basin with water, scoop up a cup of water at a time and run with it over to an empty bowl. Who can collect the most amount of water in 1 minute), ball/balloon catch (how many times can you catch a balloon or ball in 1 minute) or fill the bucket (transfer small objects from one bucket to another. First finished is the winner.) I’m sure someone from your family could help you with your races.
PICNIC
Sit on a rug in the garden, if you can, and enjoy your butterfly cakes and some juice with your family or you could sit at a picnic table. Maybe use a colourful tablecloth. Listen for the birds. Mrs Gardner has blackbirds nesting in her garden and they are very chirpy!
WE’RE ALL GOING ON A BEAR HUNT
Enjoy listening to this story on You Tube. Try and do all the actions and say the sounds if you can. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL36gMrHJaI
If you have fun doing some of these activities then send us a comment or a photo. We’d love to hear from you.
Have Fun! Stay Safe!
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