Welcome back!
We enjoyed sharing our holiday news with each other after our October break.
This week we completed our Chinese inspired dragon art with Miss Campbell.
In Outdoor Learning, we added our ideas to our LEAF Challenge action plan, then headed outside to estimated the height and age of trees in the playground.
- First we turned our back to the tree we had chosen. Then we bent forward and looked between our legs to see the tree. We then walked forward until we could see the tip of the tree between our legs.
2. Then we measured from our partner’s feet to the tree trunk with a metre stick or a trundle wheel.
3. Then we measured the length of the person’s leg that had walked from the tree to where they could see the tip of the tree between their legs.
4. Finally, we added the distance from the tree to the length of our partner’s leg to give us an estimated height of the tree.
Some of us estimated the age of trees by measuring the circumference of the tree and dividing this number by 2.5, as trees grow an average of 2.5cm in diameter every year.
