We enjoyed a great warm up game today involving consonants, vowels and golden question marks. What great fun we had creating lots of words giggling and laughing the whole time too. 😂
After that we used ‘Sammy snakes’ to help us learn a bit more about estimating before taking our Sammy snakes exploring in our outdoor area searching for items that measure 1 metre.
“Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to make time outdoors part of every child’s day. On two days of action each year, teachers take children outdoors to play and learn.”
We are so fortunate here in Mearns that part of our school improvement plan is encouraging teachers to take children out EVERY day!
Today we had a marvellous time observing and recording details about leaves that we found. We took part in some activities to help us understand the importance of recording clearly and observing closely.
We then enjoyed working in teams to produce some really creative symmetrical patterns. What a lot of learning went on as we worked together, chatting and excitedly creating them.
The weather held us back a bit today as we learned more about reading maps, using keys and orienteering, but we still had lots of fun! 😊
After the soggy map work, we created some amazing patterns using the array of beautifully coloured leaves we found at the back of the pitch.
We discovered some leaves which had what we think are little caterpillar eggs on them too. What an interesting and surprising discovery.
We are so pleased with our pressed flowers. After only two weeks in our hi tech flower presses the results were superb. What an interesting time we had this morning looking at our flowers and leaves on the light box.
This morning we were challenged to collect six number stones to create three two digit numbers giving the highest total possible.
What marvellous discussions we had throughout the challenge as well as on the way back to class! We are certainly sharpening up our mental maths and problem solving skills in primary 4.
After that we designed and made some really cool outdoor hi tech clipboards and headed out to collect some leaves and flowers to press over the October break.
What a super day for some outdoor maths today! After a fun warm up game revising place value we moved on to investigating the properties of 2D shapes and well as learning about obtuse, acute and right angles.
We also created some marvellous shapes and patterns by joining others together and using the materials in interesting ways.
What a glorious morning we had as we learned about alliteration while playing an orienteering game.
We also had fun using the orienteering punches and working in pairs following instructions and finding markers in the grass.
This was all after a great warm up practising lots of mental maths strategies.
Our main learning today involved using maps to find and match numbers and words on our different courses. We also learned how to describe routes and record routes using positional language.
Despite the heavy rain we enjoyed a fabulous morning outside playing some listening games and learning all about how to collect and organise different materials to represent different things on a map.
Here we are organising ourselves into a square to start off our lesson and here are some of our maps….fortunately we got some photos before they blew away!
