As part of the 50 Things to do in the Outdoors, the Transition class learned about geese and their flight formations. We spent some time outside with our eyes to the sky looking for them. Hopefully we will see more over the coming weeks!
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Diwali
As part of our preparations to celebrate Diwali on Monday, the Transition class chose and designed their own Rangoli. They were all Effective Contributors
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Responsible Citizen – Eco Captain
Our Eco captain was hard at work in his post. He was a Responsible Citizen wheeling the recycling boxes round and ensuring that each item went into the correct bin.
The Transition class had a wonderful Climate Change Conference day on Thursday. We joined with Oak class online to discover what Climate Change is. We then shared some tasks to do throughout the day to help prevent Climate change. Transition class were responsible for issuing an Energy Audit using our literacy and numeracy skills. We also discovered the food miles involved in our lunches using our numeracy skills. Our last task was to prompt upcycling where we made some templates for a forthcoming whole school project. We met again in the afternoon to share our progress with Oak class. What a fun and busy day.
Delivering our Energy Audit
Online with our Oak friends
Placing food miles on our number line
Creating our Energy Audit
Starting our Upcycling project
Discovering food miles using Google Maps
Upcycling
More Google Maps
Continuing their excellent healthy eating work, the Transition class were Confident Individuals when working hard to discover the names and sources of different meats. The answers were spread out round the class and there was lots of discussion and fun to try and match meat to the correct animal!
As part of the Healthy Eating unit, the Transition class were all Effective Contributors when they worked together to discover where common fruits and vegetables grow. The class had to chose different fruits or vegetable and match them to trees, bushes, vines or under the ground. The class completed the task and their own sheets. Well done!
The Transition class were Successful Learners when they completed some more work on their class book. Before the October holiday the class used tea to stain some fake fur to represent the first time we meet Iorek the bear and he is working in a factory. The class compared their dried fur to original fur to confirm it looked dirty enough! They added it to their physical description sheet where they had coloured Iorek using warm and cold colours.
We also looked at Lyra’s physical description and discovered that she wears denim and can be quite grubby. We got some old jeans and matched them to the character Lyra in our story.
The Transition class were Successful Learners when working on their SQA topic Recognising Character in Fiction. They class worked on physical descriptions of Iorek the Bear from ‘His Dark Materials’. The class noticed that fur (fake of course) that we had was too clean compared to Iorek when we meet him for the first time. The class had lots of fun staining the fur with tea.
The Transition class were hard at work planning their Healthy Cooking SQA class for after the October Break. They were all Confident Individuals when they chose a local product (Eggs) and selected a local producer. They then identified healthy and non-healthy ways of preparing them. After the holidays the class will prepare the eggs in different ways for a photo shoot.
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Effective Contributors – Harvest
It was Harvest this week in Transition class. The class were Effective Contributors during assembly where they joined in with songs with musical instruments. They also took care and focussed well making scarecrow faces. Pupils folded paper before cutting out hats, noses and eyes they added a little straw for effect!
