The Tallest Class in Banton Primary
On Thursday the primary sixes for both p6-7 & p4-5-6 went down to the woods.
We were going to do a little Earth Day prep, but also to play games and read and write poems.
It was quite cold to be sitting long so we warmed up with running around game. All the children really all concentrated on writing and drawing in their tiny notebooks.
Yesterday was bright and sunny, so we go to work decorating the wall of the Banton Bee Cafe.
All the groups went with a bee theme, but one group chose to do Bees in Space!
By the end of the day we had made good progress, and will start the other sides soon.
In the afternoon the Biggies made a fire, despite some rain and we cooked some pancakes!
The class are getting pretty good and cutting kindling and keeping safe.
The Biggies went down to the woods this morning.
It is beginning to get a little more spring like, we noticed daffodils, hawthorn leaves and hazel catkins and buds.
We saw a buzzard hunting and heard and then saw a Woodpecker high in a tree.
We collected some nouns, verbs and adjective for later use and we also picked quite a lot of material for our bee hotel.
Today some of the class started working on our raised flower beds that will be planted with wildflowers for the occupants of our, yet to be built, bee hotel.
The Class did a great job with hardly any paint on clothes. They also wrote some notes for their e-portfolio, I’ve put some of these below.
This term we have been learning about bees so the Kilsyth rotary club reached out and they had a big chat with us about bees and gave us information about what bees like. Tthey wanted to make a bee hotel with us and we are also making some wild flower planters and the look amazing.
Josh
We are going to “bee” building a bee hotel, but it can also be for other bugs and flies an wasps.
We are getting help for the bee hotel from the Kilsyth Rotary Club. For this We need items with many holes in them like bricks, leaves, straw/grass, sticks, wood, slates, lots of wood, logs, moss and lots of other natural objects and un-natural objects to.
Hollie
The next time they came they talked to us about what flowers would be suitable to plant they said that our Bee hotel would be for other small creatures. Like moths and flys and unfortunately wasps. When they left they gave us something called collars. Not a dog collars they were big wooden planks the opened up into a square shape.
Ben
So today we got these six wood planks and they bend and turn into a squares, and we got six of them, we painted them with white primer paint. So our teacher told two students to get one plank outside, and he showed us how to paint it carefully.
Alfred
Once we’ve done that we will fill it with soil and wild flower seeds. Soon we will be making the bee hotel but we need to get sticks, stones,log extra. We will use that to make the hotel. People will be bringing stuff in for the hotel suck as bricks with holes, bamboo and other stuff. Once it’s done we will look at it and leave.
Hazel
The next step is for the collars to dry then put designs on them then let them dry and get varnished dried yet again and then be made into raised beds for wild flowers to a-tracked bees and not that welcome but wasps next we will build the actual hotel which may “bee” a challenge but we can manage it I’m sure because I’m “bee-ing” positive.
Hollie
We still need to get some things for the bee hotel like tomorrow we are going to go to the woods and collect some stuff for the bee hotel like sticks and other things. We haven’t started to build the bee hotel yet but the bee people will be coming back after the Easter holidays to build the bee hotel with us. Some people will be bringing some stuff in like bamboo and bricks with holes in it.
Rhuaridh
We have been sent out to our homes and soon other places to collect items and other materials that bees and insects can fit through, for example a brick (the brick would have to possess holes within itself to be accepted and put into use.)
Charlie
In the afternoon the class did a bit of design work and started transferring their designs to the pained collars.
Given the weather the Biggies took a bit of time to take some photos of the snow clinging to the branches in the playground. They then edited them in snapseed to dramatic effect.
On Thursday, the day before our eco focus day we headed down to the MUGA and park to pick up litter. It looks like or hard work earlier had paid off. We found much less litter.
A short week in the biggies, but we managed to have a bit of maths fun with an outdoor tables challenge and some tarsia puzzles. We also worked on collaborative problem solving with diagrams.
If you would like to try some simple multiplication and division tarsia, you could try these ones, print them out and mix them up:
The biggies has a sporty week:
On Monday we practised our junior leaders routines. We will lead activities with p1-3 very soon.
On Wednesday we had a visit from Active Schools Julie and a Rugby Scotland Coach. We had a great time play some rugby based activities.
We also did some group work on Climate Change:
We finished the week by meeting up with the Primary 1-3 and sharing the Autumn zines we made last week.
After our visit to Dow’s Wood this morning, the Biggies made some wee zines to share with p1-2-3.
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