Lexi the lemur has recently been in Primary 3/4 and trashed the classroom. We were all very shocked to see what had happened on Monday morning.  She had left a letter behind explaining that we need to appreciate resources from the rainforest more, such as paper.  Lexi challenged us to a ‘No Paper Day’.  Here is what the classroom looked like!

We successfully managed to complete a no paper day by using no new paper.  Primary 3/4 still used books in reading, however we completed reading tasks on whiteboards and through discussion.  We had active maths stations which focused on times table practise.  On Monday we also had Aberdeen football coaching and M&M production of ‘Treasure Island’ in the afternoon.

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Today we have been writing detailed descriptions of new animal discoveries from the rainforest.  We have been thinking carefully about wow words to engage the reader and some of us have been using a thesaurus to uplevel our writing by finding synonyms.  Everyone has assessed their writing with their partner and has highlighted the words  in their description that they think are exciting.

We created these animals in IDL last week by considering how animals have adapted to environments.  Primary 3/4 have thought carefully about which layer of the rainforest the animal lives and how the animal has adapted to their habitat.  Some of the creatures have wings for flying high in the emergent and canopy layer or they are able to camouflage on the forest floor. We have been busy using our imagination!