The Week before this the primary Sevens headed off with Mrs Rae, some Chapelgreen pupils and two Chapelgreen teachers, Mrs Sava and Ms Carline. Here are some reports:
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Outdoor Learning Day June 2023
We started the day by going to the woods to gather a bit of firewood and different things to test as tinder.
The woods have changed quite a lot since our last visit, the grass & bracken is a lot higher. Down by the Gladstone we saw a woodpecker and later on a frog.
Back in school we tried different items as tinder with our flies and steels. not much success. The only thing that really caught was some bog cotton we had picked on our previous visit.
Next we mixed up some dough to cook over the fire later on in the day.
We then explored a new App Seek by iNaturalist , which helped us identify plants and animals in the school grounds.
In the afternoon we rolled out out dough and wound it round some twigs, while the dough was rising we set up the fire pit.
Some marshmallows might have been toasted too.
Earth Day 2023
The Biggies are studying John Muir this term, so that filtered right in with Earth Day 2023.
The day before we had visited Dow’s wood. There we collected natural sights and sounds with our iPads and pencils.
On Friday in class we made composite images of our photos writing & drawing, click on a thumbnail to expand and see all the details:
We also made photos with the text from our favourite John Muir Quotes:
And later on we made some art, could you guess which quote inspired which piece of art:
The Biggies at Strathclyde Park
The Primary Sevens are visiting Strathclyde park every day this week, for some outdoor learning with Strathclyde Park Outdoor Education Programme.
Here is a collection of short ‘videos’ of the adventures. The playlist will be added to each day.
Monday Outdoors at Strathclyde day 1
Tuesday More Bows & Boats
Tuesday Strathclyde Archery & Climbing
Wednesday Strathclyde Park Bushcraft
Thursday Team Building
Friday: Bikes & Orienteering
Scale Model Dens
Last year, the class went out to the playground and measures lots of the den building materials:
This year we took these measurements, scaled them down by a factor of 10 and then made scale models of dens.
the class also made scale models of themselves at the same scale as the dens.
The children then made wee videos of their learning using iMovie or clips.
Model Montage
Show You Scale Models
Dens- scaled models
Scaled Model Dens
There are a couple of videos still to be finished and we will add these to the playlist when done.
Outdoor learning Day November 2022
On Wednesday the Biggies had one of our outdoor learning days. We started with a treasure hunt to find words to treasure. We will share some of the words later on.
Then we worked on some measure for maths. We were measuring some of the pallets, tarps and other things we use for den building.
Finally we split into teams and built some dens. We ere working on our playing, leadership, communication, problem solving and practical skills.
A few days ago we as a class went out side and practiced using adjectives, nouns and verbs and how we did that was we described autumn on coloured paper basically to make a short poem.
For maths we done measuring and how we that was we brought out all of the different things in the shed and got partners to measure them in meter and centimetres.
Hazel
Yesterday it was our outdoor day. We stared the day off by doing some literacy, at literacy we we got some pieces of paper, the thing on the front would show what ever we see that is in that category, adjective, noun or verb. Wwe would write on the back. A the end we made leaf drawings. put those word in it.
Then for maths we had gathered all the Palettes and tarps, we went in groups and we had to measure those items. after lunch we used all of those Items to make a den and the den which was the best won.
Josh
On Wednesday it was an out door leaning day and when we were doing maths we put out the pallets, planks and tadpoles we measured them and took a photo to show the measurements of the pallets, plank and tarpaulins. Alex
Wild Flower Seeding
Last week we took the next step in our Bee Hotel Project and planted the Bee Buffets with wild flower seeds. We will see what comes up in the spring.
We might try and make the hotel itself even more welcoming to insects as some will be wanting somewhere cosy to bed down for the winter.
thanks to the Rotary Club of Kilsyth for all their help with the project.
Busy Biggies, Moving a Ton
Last session the biggies made a bee hotel and started making small gardens to act as a bee cafe.
Last week we had a ton of soil delivered to fill up our gardens. Despite the rain The biggies got down to work this afternoon and moved the ton of soil into the gardens.
Today in school we when outside and put down the little wooden gardens.
We set the up got a wheelbarrow, 2 shovels and buckets then started.
Mr Johnston took off the cover of the soil and turn after turn children got to scoop soil into people’s buckets.
It started raining no child cared but Mr Johnston did, with the buckets we had full of soil we dumped in the little wooden gardens and filled them up, We filled up all three little wooden gardens to the top. In the end we were all muddy and wet.
Olivia Rose
This afternoon we continued on our project with the Kilsyth rotary club. After lunch we came into the class and sat down like normal. After that we had to get suited and booted (as some people would say.)
After we got ‘suited and booted,’ we headed outside to finally take the tarp away from the massive ton of dirt. We adventured the playground getting buckets and shovels for the bug buffets (as it was named.)
Charlie
Today we put soil into our buckets and filed them up . We did it to help climate and bees were going to plant wild flowers in the buckets for the Bees to eat the-pollen soon . The soil vanished after we put all the soil in them.
Alex
This afternoon me and my class last year made collars for bee restaurants. There was 3 groups when we did this 2 of the groups just did grass and trees and 1 group did bees in space. But last year the soil didn’t come in time so we had to fill them up today. We all took shots of filling the buckets. When we were finished filling the buckets we poured them in to the collars. When we came inside we had to wash up and take our water proofs off.
Elise
We got a delivery of a ton of soil, an actual ton, and we filled up the bee buffets that the Biggies made last year. We will plant wild flowers in them so the bees can collect the pollen.
Rory
This afternoon me and my classmates where making bee restaurants. Last year some of the people from this class made a bee hotel and they painted planks of wood to make the bee restaurants. So then the soil got delivered a few days ago. Then today we filled buckets up with soil and when we finished filling them up we poured them in to the collars and then when we where finished we washed our hands and then took our water proofs off.
Mia
Outdoor Learning Day with the Biggies
Today the whole school had an outdoor learning day. The Biggies:
Went to Dow’s Wood, we collected a hoard of words to use later, had a treasure hunt and collected some kindling.
Next we prepared the fire pit, reminding ourselves about the safety rules and chopped some kindling with great care.
After that we read some of the playground poems we wrote last week to the rest of the class.
In the afternoon we made a fire and cooked some marshmallows.
Finally we went to help primary 1 & 2 to tour the village and take photos of some of the important places in Banton.
No photos of the fire pit or the preparation:(
Playground Poets
These poems were written on a sunny morning in the playground.
We tried to describe what we saw and what was happening as clearly as possible without adjective or adverbs.
