It is Schools’ Week at Logan Botanic Gardens! Leswalt Primary ventured there today. Read the fabulous blog reports below to find out more…
Logan Gardens Trip by P1-4
P1-4 enjoyed a fun morning at Logan Gardens with ranger Kate. Our activity was called The Teddy Bear’s Picnic and we had to take along with us our favourite stuffed toys. We learned about something called S.W.A.F. This stood for Shelter, Water, Air and Food, all the things our bears needed for survival. We then enjoyed some fun activities using our senses including Musical Trees, a Rainbow Nature Search and building an island for our bears to live on.
Logan Gardens Trip by Hamish McGregor
This morning, the whole of Leswalt Primary went to Logan Botanic Gardens. The P5-7 class found out about the Science of Plants (Botany). We started by learning about the different parts of a flower (stem, stamen, pollen, stigma) and the class did a roleplay of the lifecycle of a plant – I dressed up as a bee! After this, we were handed out hand lenses and we looked really closely at plants, petals, flowers and leaves. The lenses made each thing 10x bigger! We did lots of other fun activities too like; wearing blue or red lens glasses to see the plants as birds or bees do; hiding raisins as a squirrel would and pretending to be flying seeds for seed dispersal. It was a really fun and enjoyable trip!
Logan Gardens Trip by Alfie Baker
Today our whole school went on a bus to Logan Gardens. When we got there, we lined up and a leader took us to find out about the life cycle of a plant. The wee ones had a teddy bear’s picnic. We got to use hand lenses to magnify plants and bugs – we could even see the tiny hairs on flowers! We saw two geese (the mum and dad) and seven goslings walking about the gardens and swimming on the pond. For lunch, we sat on a big tarpaulin and ate our packed lunches and chatted. We headed back to school after a lovely morning.
