The biggies have created some art inspired by the plant we found in Dow’s Wood. We are also starting to think about our harvest assembly which will be after the holidays.
Wild Harvest Art
Author: John Johnston
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Banton Flower Show 2017
Every year Banton Primary send their art to the Banton Flower show. Here are this years entries.
We Know Everything
Back in April the Biggies wrote poems for the Kilsyth Rotary Club competition. The Primary 7’s recited their’s at their leavers assembly last week and did a great job.
The competition winners were Callum, Fergie, Zara and Aaliyah, but I think they are all great.
Biggies Spring Watch
Last Wednesday we went down to Andrew Dows wood to see the different things about spring there were loads of animals and nature. Mr and Mrs Carter took us because they knew a lot more than we know about nature and animals. There was much to learn, about loads of parts in the woods. We learned about some birds and we heard more than we saw.
Emma
Insects
The insects we saw, there were butterflies. One species was orange tip. the difference between then are the males have the little bronze bit at the tip of their wings and the females have a light green bit under their wings. We saw dancing midges that do not bite but other midges will bite. We saw bees getting pollen.
Aaliyah
Flowers
We saw yellow gorse bush and it smelled like coconuts.
We also saw bluebells and butter cups and a king cup which is bigger than a butter cup and grows in the marsh.
We also saw violets and lots of lovely beeees!!!!!!
Collecting pollen and nectar. We saw cherry blossom.
Trees
We saw a tree that was giant it was in school woods. We got three people to stand around the tree and link arms and measure how long our arms together would be together and it came to about 5 meters. We then put our arm 45 degrees until it looked like we touched the top of the tree then we took about meter steps and how many steps we took it would be the height of the tree and we got 25 so the tree is about 25 meters high. It grows 2 cm a year. The trees we saw were beech trees, birch trees, Rowen trees , hawthorn trees and blossoming trees.
Zara & Islay
Birds
We heard loads of birds even some from Africa like the blackcap and chiffchaff. The reason why the blackcap is called this name is because it has Markings on its face like a blackcap on your head and it is the same with the chiffchaff it is called the chiffchaff because they make a noise that says chiffchaff. There was also a buzzard flying over the area scanning it for prey to eat. We also heard a great tit saying teacher.
Emily
Long Division in the Sun
Awe took advantage of the weather to get out and discuss how to solve long division calculations.
I a quick play with the newish clips app at lunch time, I hope the Biggies will be able to make better movies than this.
#RedNoseDay Animated Gifs
Scenes From Tam O’Shanter
Here is some of the children’s writing about the making of the movie, All 10 of the p6 & 7s were involved.
Kennings, we know about animals
Kennings are an old type of poetry, the word ‘ken’ is related, these poems tell you about how you ‘ken’ something.
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Personal Projects
For one hour a week the Biggies are working on their personal projects.
The World Must Be Coming to an End
The Banton Biggies have joined in with the World Must Be Coming To An End – #singalangtaethelangestsang project. This is trying to
Help create the langest Scots sang EVER!
Listen to the classic Scots children’s song, The World Must Be Coming To An End, and write a new verse with your class.
Click on the link below to listen to and read the verses the Biggies made up.
