We had a great time, here is what some of the class thought:
First we did a warmup called traffic lights, Chris had 3 cones a green cone, an orange cone, and a red cone. When he held up the green cone we were to dribble about, but we were to keep the ball close and have control over it, Chris calls this penguin taps. If Chris held up the orange cone we were to do this motion called toe taps, a toe tap is when you tap the ball with the tip of your feet one after the other. If Chris held up the red card we are to hold it still and sit on the ball
Chloe
The second game was hungry hippos. We had to dribble a ball Back to our team and to get the ball we had to high five a partner and go on my team was Jason and Juliet we won 2 times in a row.
Noah
I got better at dribbling the ball the session was really fun I like the football training a lot because it was very fun.
Jason
At that lesson I got a bit better at football. I didn’t really learn anything as far as I can remember. I felt competitive in the session and I really liked it. I had a lovely day yesterday in school and I enjoyed the session so much.
Thank you Clyde football club for coming to Banton.
Gene
Lastly we played football we split into teams then to. Then we started Calum was great he would find away to get the ball of you every time. It was 1&1 it was great
Tony
Finally we played a game of football the opposite team got a point then I got the ball under every ones legs and Jason got it in the goal.
I learned some new games practiced and got better at dribbling the ball. It was really fun and I really enjoyed it.
We are trying to visit the woods at least once a month this session for some outdoor learning.
The weather today was drizzle with some windy spells. So it was rain-suits on.
This morning we headed to the woods. We putted on waterproof clothing and went. Leaves were falling down on the way to the woods. Different colours of leaves. When we entered the woods it was muddy, filled with leaves and sticks. We were on a scavenger hunt looking for many different things. We had a list. After a certain point we stopped and had a break. We wrote interesting poems and heard them. They were nice. Near the end we did something about natural disasters. We had to save stick people affected by a flood and make a shelter for them. Then we headed back for lunch and on the way I found a big leaf.
Alexia
It was quite muddy and beautiful leaves where falling on the ground and our faces.
Lexi
As we travelled through the paths we had a bit of a scavenger hunt, this was supposed to lead to making some art at the end of the morning but we ran out of time.
Poems of all sorts
We stopped at the big rock pile among the oak trees and talked about different forms of poems. This included a couple of types we had not written before. Then the children found some quiet spots and did some writing.
We gathered back at the rocks and read the poem out as loud as we could over an increasing wind.
Tanka snow Snow White soft cold Falling with the wind Covering the wild grass No ears to listen to birds
Tony
Oh! look a crow look! look! What ?what happened CRASH!!!!!!!!
Calum
Look what I found A fish swimming I wonder if a cat will find it? MUNCH!!!!!
Noah
The woods – acrostic poem
The woods is a place of beauty Having fun in all weather sun, rain, snow, rain Everyone finds one thing to remember about the woods
With friends or family Old and young Old and young in joy it Days go bye and the woods changes So go to the woods
Juliet
Look what I found poem Look what I found a A stick Moss and shaped Next to the rocks I wonder if it will break?
Billie
Look what I found? A rock Staying still Sitting on the grass Wow! It looks amazing
Xander
Tanka Leaves Multicoloured, thin, wavy Sailing off trees No eyes to see where they’re going
Look at what I found Look what I found Moss Growing and sitting still On top of old cranky rocks Will it ever stop?
Alexia
Look what I found Moss Growing and still On a old tree Does the tree like it?
Lexi
Concrete Poems Juliet
Stick People in Danger
After the poetry session we had some snacks, being careful with our litter then headed over to School Wood.
We have been learning about Natural Disasters in class, when we got to School Wood we found some tiny stick people who had been flooded out of their homes. The Biggies were challenged to create some shelters the right size. Some of the refugee sticks got together others made solo efforts.
We discussed the features that the class had created to help the sticks have warmth and shelter.
We also built dens for two refugees and we could team up with other people. (The refugees are fake small sticks). Our class built dens for them because a flood hit their homes. We needed to build dens that were flood proof, wind proof, safe, warm and some other things for them. We did all of this in this paragraph because our topic is natural disasters.
Gene
But the thing I liked the most was building houses for the little people also known as refugees who were in a flood. We did it because our topic was natural disasters. They were made of wood they were also tiny. We had to build them a house it was hard I had 4 sticks. I also put-put walls on it and added I fire place, a bed, and an umbrella to keep their fire wood dry.
Today was a focus day at Banton Primary. We are looking at some of our Eco Schools Action Plan targets around litter.
We started the day by litter picking around the community and in Dow’s Wood. Banton is a very tidy place and we did not get too much litter!
Back in class we weighed the litter from different groups and categorised it into different types. We used numbers on our iPads to analyse and make graphs of the results.
The winning group was Juliet, Alexia & Robert. They found 41 pieces of litter weighing 450 grams.
We also read the stories of Litterbug Doug and Michael Recycle to our p1-3 pals.
In the afternoon we finished our graphs, started designing super hero logos for a litter battling super hero.
Finally we presented what we had been doing to the rest of the school. We had an enjoyable busy day that was a break from our usual program.
On Monday the Biggies spent a morning in Dow’s wood.
We looked around for autumn colours, measured the ages of some oak and beech trees, kept our eyes peeled for plants and creatures we could put in a food chain. We also had time for quiet writing and drawing.
We saw an owl going through the trees, found spider web galore and walked a couple of miles. We covered some maths, literacy, our IDL topic about Food Webs and more. Lots of learning & fresh air.
RosehipsLooking up through the oak trees.Raindrops on grasstiny fungiA garden spiderA Hazel Nut
Pupil thoughts
I enjoyed everything and I don’t have a favourite because I found everything very enjoyable. I had a lovely trip to Dow’s wood that day and I would love to go again. I learned about the size of an oak and another tree that I forgot its name. I drew, wrote, had my snack and a lot more.
Gene
I liked most of the stuff that we did, the measuring trees were a bit hard though. It was hard because we had not tall people (we were all small) We had a small paper notebook with us and we did activities in it like we made a colour list, we measured trees as you know, we wrote on blank pieces of paper you could do, a story, a poem, a picture poem. All that sort of stuff we also drew. We also had to find 3 interesting and cool leaves.
Chloe
Autumn Colours
I learned how different trees spread their seeds. For example a Hawthorn tree spreads its seeds through animals eating them. I enjoyed walking where the old train track used to be because there was a really good view of trees and there was so many colours. We did some measuring of trees, writing and some art work of things we could see.
I really loved it because I enjoyed how we did our colour list and we measured the trees. We collected 3 leaves and we stopped for snack time. We sat in a quiet space and we wrote and drew. Then we went back to school just in time for lunch.
We walked talked and sat on rocks. We also wrote and did more walking and drew.
Writing & Drawing in the Woods
Some Food Chains
Back in class we though a bit about food chains & webs.
The first thing we did was Photoblitzer. At it’s core, photoblitzer is a website that Mr. Johnston gave all of us. The web page had a small list of photo ideas, then we had twenty minutes to take pictures going along with the list.
Nathaniel
Capture the flag
Next we had a game of capture the flag in the playground. This is a new game for the Biggies and went down really well. Lots of running, laughing and thinking.
After our photo blitz challenge we did a game of capture the flag, I had never played it before but it was really fun. Mr. Johnston split us into two teams team red, & team yellow. My group started off as team yellow, my team had me, Olivia, Lexi, Alexia, Rory & Tony. In the first round most of them came sprinting and I tug Juliet, Harry, & then Xander. Team yellow won the first round
Chloe
Dow’s Wood
After the interval we headed down to Dow’s Wood. We started by searching the wood for new creatures to add to our collection at the Banton Beasties. This is a new site that well will make public soon. We found quite a few interesting ones and a few more got away.
One Beastie was not very welcome. We were attacked by swarms of midges. This made our other activity in the woods more difficult than usual, we stopped to spend some time writing and drawing. It is a credit to the Biggies that they got some done!
In the woods, a thick tree canopy shades mossy rocks.
In the woods, big blue flys lurk uncatchable.
In the woods, midges bite continuously and with no mercy.
In the woods, ferns are everywhere.
In the woods, there is no escape from midges.
Juliet
King of the Forrest
For he is king of the forest
He has a centurion of bugs
For he is king of the forest
There’s a smile on everyone’s mug
For he is king of the forest
He cares for the children
For he is king of the forest
He has a crown of ferns
Placed on by a hern
Nathaniel
The Nature Poem
Deep down in the woods,
Through the lush leafy forest
At the heart of the woodland,
This is how it starts.
Xander
Pendulum Painting
We constructed some painting pendulums in the playground in the afternoon. This was messy but fun and gave some interesting results. The next day we took our art, edited it in Snapseed to boost the colours. We then but it on a virtual gallery wall and added ourselves as a visitor.
We celebrated Earth Day a little early on Friday last week. We went to Dow’s Wood. We went firstly to see what sort of living creatures we could find. We also spent some time just sitting quietly by ourselves drawing or writing. The idea was to spend some time appreciating the world around us.
Creatures
We found a variety of invertebrates, in the undergrowth and under logs and rocks.
We are building up a collection of creatures we can see in Banton. We will classify these and find out about their lifecycles.
Drawing & writing
Deep in the heart of the forest, lied an oak tree. This tree however, was different from all the others. Not tall or with fine bark or posture. Instead covered with disease. One of the oldest trees you’d think would be colossal compared to the others, not short and plump, even surrounding trees, far younger, would be taller. It was widened with deformed bark that form a distance, looked soft and fluffy, however when touched was solid. At the bottom was kale-green coloured moss, this feature however was ordinary among oaks, unlike deformed bark.
Rory
Tae Mother Nature, I like the wee beasties you hide Tae Mother Nature, I like the wind you blow fae other countries Tae Mother Nature, I like the moss it’s like a cushion Tae Mother Nature, make the tree go high and the breeze go low
Some of the Biggies headed down to Dow’s Wood for a picnic lunch today. We had a relaxing time eating in the woods dappled with sunshine. Food was eaten, trees climbed. A woodpecker drummed around us in the treetops.
The Biggies took part in the school outdoor learning day yesterday. The weather was unrelentingly wet! We got on our waterproofs and took part in a full program.
We started by preparing a fire and making some sticks to toast marshmallows. Next we worked on our maths making circle paterns in the playground. after the interval we got the fire goign and helped our wee pals from Primary !-2 to make s’mores.
After lunch we cleaned up the Bee Cafes and cut and planted some willow whips.
I really liked yesterday it was really fun . I liked the fire pit with the p1,2s and planting the wild flowers I did not like how wet it was because we had to draw circles with a piece of string.
Lexi
I thought it was really fun but soaking wet. I loved the fire pit and the marshmallow. I liked playing the games with the little ones I had so much fun. It was fun watching matheo eat his s’mores like he does with his sandwich. I didn’t necessarily liked making the circles it was challenging but instead I made a monkey with Lexi.
Alexia
Yesterday was a fun and exciting day, our class got split up and we taught the wee ones how to make s’mores safely, we partnered up and used home made compasses to draw circles and we done some gardening, I enjoyed planting the wildflowers and I also enjoyed the fire pit, I enjoyed leading games with my peers and I enjoyed explaining the games to the wee ones. Yesterday I think I used the skills, Leadership, Communication, Planning and Organising and much more. I liked being outside for the day and it was really fun to do those different activities all day, outside.
Olivia
I enjoyed everything. Apart from the tired legs and soaking things of course. Another thing I didn’t enjoy about is the fact I couldn’t finish the gigantic circle. But I feel brilliant about the good comments of the dry s’mores we roasted over the fire. The planting was very enjoyable, especially the bug saving. I found an adorable centipede. I hope the willows grow nicely.
Nathaniel
I Liked doing games with the wee ones & making s’mores with them. I Also liked spending time with them, planting the willow trees was a little hard because of the shovel but I liked it. I Really liked making the wild flower beds with Alex & Lexi I thought it was really fun. I liked being partners with Faith for the circle art and the rest of the day!
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