Ms Meechan – Page 2 – Banton Bairns

Thank you, Mrs Jordan!

Wow! The month of November has completely flown by for the Banton Bairns! We have so much to tell you about…

On Wednesday, we said goodbye to Mrs Jordan who had been a part of our class for the last six weeks. We did so many exciting things with her, it’s hard to know where to start! In maths, we learned how to measure length, weight and capacity. We learned about keeping our bodies healthy and got to sample lots of different healthy snacks. We discussed ways to stay safe when crossing the road and demonstrated them for each other. We loved doing science experiments with Mrs Jordan and now know what it takes to be real ‘little scientists’. In RME, we explored the ways that people from different religions celebrate the arrival of a new baby. We also had lots of fun during our outdoor learning day this week; our fairy dens looked fantastic 🧚 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♂️ Thank you Mrs Jordan, we loved having you as part of our class!

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Christmas Fayre; we really hope you like your new calendars and Christmas baubles. We look forward to seeing you at the Christmas show! 🎅 🎄⛄️

Outdoor Learning – Take 2!

After our first attempt at an outdoor learning day turned out to be a bit of a washout, Primary 1/2 were very excited to spend some time learning in the fresh air today!

We did a search for words beginning with ‘p’, made our common words with leaves, sticks and twigs and did a special maths number hunt. A big thank you to our P7 friends who set up the hunt for us, you did a great job!

We have been learning about different types of musical instruments and how to make different rhythms with them. We used lots of different outdoor materials to make our own instruments and made lots of lovely music with them. For art, we gave our little hedgehog friends back their spikes 🦔 before ending the day tidying up our playground with a super helpful litter pick!

Check out all the fun we had in our video below:

Making Music – Pitch

Primary 1\2 have been learning about sounds this week. We talked about making sounds that are quiet and sounds that are loud – we were VERY good at making loud sounds! 😀

Sammy the Snake taught us about changing pitch. Then we explored some musical instruments and found out how to make high sounds and low sounds with them. We had lots of fun and look forward to using the instruments again soon 🎶

Welcome!

Wow! What a fantastic first few days we’ve had in Primary 1/2! Our big P2’s got to welcome 5 new P1’s into our classroom and have been enjoying showing them around the school and the playground. We’ve had plenty of time to play and explore with lots of new friendships being made along the way.

We also got to spend some time with our P7 buddies who came to our classroom to help us with the messy business of making play dough! We have been reading the book ‘Hot Dog’ by Mark Sperring and used our play dough to make hot dogs for our very own hot dog shop. Yum! 🌭🌭🌭

All children in the world have rights and we have been learning about what this means and the kind of rights that we have. Next week, we will create a class charter to record some of the rights that we think are important for our classroom. We’ve already made some beautiful flowers to decorate our charter 🌸 🌺 🌸

Have a look at our photos to see what we’ve been up to 🙂

End of Term Fun!

Primary 1/2 have been having lots of fun with learning in the last few weeks of term. From taste testing to litter picking, outdoor learning to baking and even making our own ice cream, it’s fair to say that we have packed lots of fantastic experiences into Term 4. Check out our video on YouTube to see what we’ve been doing 🙂

What We’ve Been Up To…

Primary 1/2 have been super, duper busy since we came back from our Easter holidays!

We had a lovely time celebrating the King’s coronation! Our friends in the Biggies came to help us make empire biscuits. It was very hard not to eat them straight away as they looked so yummy! We managed to wait until the afternoon then we tucked into lots of tasty treats at our coronation party. We even modelled the fancy crowns we made for ourselves!

The whole school had an exciting day when we got on a bus that took us all the way to the Forth Bridge Education Centre! We learned all about the amazing bridges we could see and then worked as part of a team to build our own bridges. Our bridges were strong enough to hold lots of cars! Well, toy cars but we did only have paper and sticky tape to build them…

In maths, we were introduced to some little friends; the BeeBots! BeeBots really like it when you give them directions to follow! We had to think carefully about whether we wanted them to go forwards or backwards, left or right and even clockwise or anti-clockwise. We had some minor crashes but thankfully no BeeBots were harmed!

We have been learning all about our five senses this term. We have been using our ears to do good listening and follow instructions. We also talked about the way that sound travels in waves when we made our own telephones so we could talk to our friends. We also did a fun smell test where we had to guess what the smell was; there was no peeking allowed! We found lots of smells that we liked and one or two that we weren’t so keen on! Next step; taste testing! 🙂

Have a look at what we’ve been up to in our new video:

Fluffy Friends!

We had some very exciting guests at Banton School on Friday as we celebrated Earth Day. Evie introduced us to six friendly little lambs who were ready for their breakfast! We were all very happy to take a turn feeding them; we loved to see their little tails wagging ☺️

A big thank you to Mr and Mrs Marshall for bringing their lambs to visit us and to little Olivia for making sure we all behaved ourselves 😉 We had a lovely morning with you!

Later on in the day we learned about the importance of recycling by reading about a superhero called ‘Michael Recycle’ ♻️ In the afternoon, we went litter picking in our playground. We couldn’t believe how much rubbish we found! We know how important it is to keep our playground tidy and will always make sure to put our litter in the bin.

Shapes and Patterns

Over the last couple of weeks, P1/2 have been busy exploring 2D shapes, 3D objects, tiling and patterns. We’ve explored our classroom and school grounds on the hunt for as many shapes as we could find. We then sorted some 3D objects into groups depending on their properties and also had a great time creating our own tiling and repeating patterns. Have a look at what we’ve been up to in our video 🟢🟦🔺🟢🟦🔺🟢🟦🔺

Pancakes!

The Banton Bairns had a fantastic afternoon making pancakes with our friends The Biggies! We got to practise our measuring skills before mixing our pancake batter until it was lovely and smooth. The Biggies cooked our pancakes in a hot pan and helped us choose our pancake toppings when it was time to eat. Thank you Biggies! Our pancakes were really yummy!

Watch us make our pancakes here –

Busy Bees 🐝

The Banton Bairns have been very busy recently! We’ve been designing and building rockets, measuring, baking scones, having outdoor learning fun with the Biggies and celebrating Burns’ Day! Watch our video to see what we’ve been up to!

A great big thank you to the Biggies for all their help planning our outdoor learning activities! You are the best big friends we could ask for ☺️