Our warm up game today helped develop our word creating skills using vowels, consonants and golden question marks. We got into teams and collected stones with letters on them to work together making long words and short words. It was great when we picked golden question marks as they could be any letter we wanted! Team work was really important and all of us worked well on this task.
Next we used ‘Sammy snakes’ (who misbehaved a bit while Mrs Kelly held them! ) to help us work on our estimation skills. Finally we went exploring in the forest to find trees of all different heights and practised estimating just how tall they were.
click on this link to hear some estimation in action:
video of estimating
“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!
We started off today producing a magnificent whole class symmetrical creation! Isn’t it amazing? Such attention to detail. Everyone really enjoyed taking part in producing it.
We continued using our time outdoors by selecting and observing our chosen leaves before taking time to record our observations using our fabulous hi tech clip boards 😊 We then took part in some activities to test our recording skills and learned a lot discussing with each other what we had done well and what we could work on.
We spent some time outside collecting leaves and making patterns with them on the grass, but the weather just got a little too blustery, so we decided to bring our leaves inside to continue making some beautiful patterns.
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