Tag: outdoor learning

5A Numeracy/ Outdoor Learning

Time/Angles/Fractions:

This morning 5A took their learning outdoors! Some of us were using our knowledge of time to complete a treasure hunt!

Ruari said: “We had to find the different questions around the playground and we had to answer the time question correctly and then crack the code!”

Alice said “I enjoyed trying to crack the code! There were some tricky questions but I still managed to find the correct code!”

Some of us were using what we have been learning about Angles and Direction and creating numbers and pictures with different materials and marking the angles with cubes!

Timothy said: “I liked the task to create a picture and mark the angles. We created a house and then a monster and used cubes to show acute, obtuse, right, straight and reflex angles.”

Some of us were using chalk and natural materials to show different fractions! Conor said: “I liked doing active fraction work. I drew shapes with chalk and then  put natural materials inside different parts to show the fraction.”

Well Done 5A! 👍

P5d – Scottish Art Outdoors!

Last week, in the outdoor classroom, we were collecting natural materials to create pictures.

We worked in teams of four and we got to choose a picture to create.  We talked about what we had learned in our Scottish History topic and in our groups, we decided what picture to make.

“We decided to make a highland cow because it is one of Scotland’s most famous animals.” Daouia  “We used grass, stones and bark. We used grass for the inside because it looked a bit like hair.” Maya    “I liked doing this because it was fun and we got to pick our own group members.” Cloda 

 

“We wanted to make Nessy the Lochness monster because it is one of Scotland’s most famous creatures. We thought it looked great at the end because we added in a tail and finns.  We also used stones and bark to put a Scottish flag in the middle.” Finn, Joseph, Daniel and Lyle 

“We wanted to make a Scottish flag because it is quite important in history.” Matthew   “We collected bark, grass, stones and sticks and made our flags using these materials.” Brodie  “At the beginning we just used sticks and stones but it didn’t look that good so we decided to get bark to try and make it look better.” Ethan 

Well done P5d.  You worked very hard, in your teams, to create Scottish images.

P5d – Angles all around us!

We have been learning how to identify and classify angles using the terms: acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex.

We have been investigating angles in the environment and classifying them using appropriate mathematical vocabulary.

Today, we took our learning outdoors and searched for angles in our school environment.  We recorded our findings on worksheets and discussed the properties of the objects.

“We were looking for angles in the outdoor classroom. We found right angles, acute and obtuse angles. We did find some reflex angles in the tyre.  We worked in pairs. We recorded what we had found on a worksheet on clipboards.  We also discovered that there are angles in between our arms and legs.”   Shay & Rocco

“We liked looking for angles outside because we didn’t know that there were so many angles all around us.  It was more fun than doing indoor work.  We found lots of right angles but not a lot of reflex angles.”  Lucy McG & Mirin

Excellent Effort today P5d! Well done 🙂

Learning Lots in P5d!

P5d have had a fun filled week  with lots of active learning.

STEM: 

We have been learning about chemical changes. This week, we did a fantastic experiment to show how chemical reactions happen. We followed the scientific method to prove when one or more substance reacts together it makes a different substance.

Outdoor Learning Day: 

Yesterday was Outdoor Learning day.  We planted lettuce and garlic chives. First, we put some compost into trays. Then, we sprinkled some of the seeds into the tray.  After that, we put some more compost on top and gave them a drink of water.

We have put them in our classroom windows and we are going to water them every day.  They need sunlight and water to grow. When they start growing we are going to each take a little bit home in our own pots. We are planning to recycle pots from home.

Good ideas for these pots include big yoghurt pots, butter cartons, ice cream cartons or bottles cut in half. We are also going to bring a bottle to school, so that we can water the lettuce in class.  When our seeds have grown, we are looking forward to eating them.

“I liked doing this because we are going to get to eat it when it grows. It was fun to measure how much compost we needed.” (Ethan)

“I liked it because we can make things out of what we grow.” (Laibah)

“I would love to grow tomatoes and basil so that we could make soup, pizza or pasta.” (Cara, Lewis & Lucas)

“I think potatoes would be great to grow because I like them and we could make chips, wedges or crisps.” (Lucy, Finn & Lewis)

“We could maybe grow strawberries.” (Joseph)

“We could make carrot soup if we grew carrots.” (Brodie)

Maths: 

We have been working really hard this week at maths. We have been learning about fractions. We can recognise equivalent fractions, simplify and order fractions. We can also find quantities of a fraction. We have had lots of fun with big materials and games as well as recording our work in a jotter.

Well done P5d on another hectic week! 🙂

Primary 5A

We have had such a busy week back after the October holiday!

STEM

This week in Science, we were learning about chemical changes through a Halloween themed lesson using pumpkins. We started by writing a hypothesis and predicting what we thought would happen when we mixed different substances together and then poured them into our pumpkins.

Some of us thought that the pumpkin would explode and some of us thought it might even change colour!

We found that when the reactants were mixed together, it created a chemical reaction causing the mixture to bubble up and overflow from the pumpkin! We had so much fun!

Outdoor Learning

We were creating beautiful artwork using natural materials in outdoor learning! Have a look below:

PE

We started basketball in PE today and loved practising their skills in the Mugga! We had a go at shooting as well.

 

Another busy week in P5d

Primary 5d have been very busy active this week.

STEM: 

This week, they planned, designed and constructed a model using KNEX.  There were some wonderfully inventive and ambitious structures.  Well done P5!

         

PE: 

P5d have been enjoying having the sports leaders from St.Ninians down working with them.  This week they were working on fitness and basketball.

Outdoor Learning: 

P5 have been learning all about China.  They were particularly interested in the Great Wall of China, which they researched and found out facts about.

Today, they used sticks, blocks, wood, stones and chalk to recreate their own Great Walls.

They had great fun in the sun 🙂 Well done P5d!

Another busy and productive week in P5d.

Have a lovely October break everyone!

P5d Outdoor Learning

Despite the bad weather, P5d persevered and went outdoors this week to do some Maths work.

Last week, we went to the Chesnut garden and collected sticks and other materials that were lying around the ground. Before we went out, we discussed what we might need to look out for.

This week, we went to the outdoor classroom and created symmetrical pictures and patterns using these shapes.

We also used our knowledge of 3D and 2D shapes to create models and pictures of shapes.

We worked in teams of 5 or 6 to read our brief and then collaborate to create our ideas.

Well done P5d. You worked very hard as a team and enjoyed your learning outdoors.  🙂

Check out what Primary 5a have been doing this week!

It is the end of another busy week in Primary 5a! We have enjoyed our second week of swimming lessons and have been enjoying a range of activities as part of Maths week!

Visitor

We were very lucky to have a special visitor today- local business owner Mrs Capaldi. She spoke to us about how important Maths is within everyday life, particularly when running a successful business.

Outdoor Learning

We have been learning in Numeracy about symmetry of shapes and coordinates. We created our own coordinate grids using bark and sticks.

Cillian said “We looked for different materials and we saw different types of plants. We used them to make the grid.”

Literacy

We have been focusing on developing characters to make our writing more interesting. We have been considering how we can make characters come to life. We had different stations. Some of us highlighted descriptive language by authors, some of us watched a video clip and took notes on the authors description while some of us created a life size character!

Christopher said: “We drew round Gavin and then created a huge character which we named and gave a personality to.”

 

Social Studies & Literacy 

We have been working in partners to research different aspects of Chinese culture as part of our topic. We have been note-taking and are in the process of creating a leaflet.

Eilish said: “We made a leaflet by first researching on the chromebooks information about China and then wrote down important information to include in our leaflet”.

VR Headsets

We loved trying out the VR headsets this afternoon!

Special Achievements 

Well Done to Orla for winning a trophy in Irish dancing! What an achievement!

Cameron visited the Emirates arena to watch professional tennis players training for their games this weekend. Cameron managed to get Jamie Murray to sign his top! Well Done Cameron.

 

Angles

Primary 4c have been exploring angles in their local environment. We went on an angle hunt to find as many angles as we could in the playground. We learned that a right angle is 90 degrees, an acute angle is smaller than 90 degrees and an obtuse angle is bigger than 90 degrees. We even used sticks to create our own angles. Look what we found.

Report a Glow concern
Cookie policy  Privacy policy

Glow Blogs uses cookies to enhance your experience on our service. By using this service or closing this message you consent to our use of those cookies. Please read our Cookie Policy.

Close