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Mud snails

Mud snails 🐌

Bug life came in to speak with us and spoke about mud snails. There going to leave us some mud snails to look after for them to grow up to adult snails to increase the population.

Buglife explained what there about, mud snails are rare and there only 7 ponds in Scotland where they live.

⁃ Activity 1) Colour a snail in and put a fact on it’s shell then name them.
⁃ Activity 2) Match snails by there adult and there baby snail.
⁃ Activity 3) Word-search things to do with mud snails and colour 3 bugs/insects in.

“Lost Words” Poems

We have been reading some of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane. We wrote acrostics poems of our own. Click the thumbnails to see bigger versions.

Buzzard Emily

Bramble Zara

Robin Aaron

Bramble Emma

Sycamore Jessicia

Badger Rylan

Magpie Rhea

Bulfinch Aaliyah

Frog – Fulton

Robin Jack

Millipede Max

Magpie Alana

Starling Heather

Grass Jonah

Gorse Islay

Oak Tree Colin

Badger Hannah

Update: We had a nice comment on Twitter from Robert Macfarlane

What a bursting, vibrant Bramble spell Zara has written, John! Full of all those ripe verbs. Beautiful to read aloud and taste on the tongue. please send her my congratulations on her work.

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) May 4, 2018

and:

And – just followed your blog link to see some more of the spells. Amazing work! Look @JackieMorrisArt at the spells these children are casting…

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) May 4, 2018

Abacus maths- Zara and Emma

We learned how to multiply on an abacus with 1 and 2 digit numbers. We watched a video online and practised until we figured out how to do it. After we told the class how to do it then we went round some maths groups. Then planned our own video explaining how to multiply with 1 and 2 digit numbers.

Cardboard Architecture

Plans taking shape

Inside the Box

Getting

Cut with care

Getting Messy

Coming together

Built 1

Built 2

Built 3

Sharing the Learning

Sharing the Learning

Click on the thumbnails above to see bigger versions of the photos.

The Biggies did a wonderful job creating fantastic architecture with cardboard, no sellotape, no glue. Here are some of the things they wrote about the lesson in their e-Portfolios.

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Scottish day

On Thursday in class we were doing lots of Scottish things and the parent came in and watched us do them and even got to join in if they wanted to.
There were 4 different groups all doing Scottish things.

One group was doing a poem called Scotland small it about although Scotland may be small it’s got so many nice plants in it and they had to find out facts about the plant and then draw it and put it on the Banton biggies they are all there.

Scotland Small?

Another group was doing an animation on the poem blaeberry mou it’s about kids eating blae berry’s and they have blue all around the face.

Blaeberry Mou

Another group was doing posters on deer out of the poem my hearts in the highlands and ther is 2 different types of deer there is red deer and roe deer.

The last group was doing painting they were painting W Scottish mountains using a wash.

How World War 1 Started

The Biggies looked at how trouble starts in the playground and how World War 1 started.

World War 1 Questions

Before we started our World War One topic, the Biggies had some great questions.

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We are also thinking of different ways to take notes.

Snow pictures

I took some pictures on this very snowy day!

Halloween party

On Friday the 27th of October Banton Primary had a Halloween party. At lunchtime most people went home and got ready. By the time everyone arrived we started the party with a parade everyone was all dressed differently.

Firstly we played monster freeze. Some people were really good a staying still and the teacher scared you and tried to make you move. Aaron won monster freeze. Then we played pass the pumpkin primary 1 and 2 were a group primary 3 and 4 were a group and 5 and 6 and 7 were a group we had to pass the pumpkin and if it landed on you you were out and the last person won.

After playing some games we needed some juice and something to eat so we went and grabbed stuff and sat down for a bit during that time some people had photos taking. The photos had a frame round the people inside the frame. After our food and drinks.

Then got food and had a karaoke. We also got told who won prizes. Max won it for the best karaoke singer. Rhea won a prize for the most beautiful witch. Islay won it for the most cheeky outfit. Caelen won it for the class topic one because he was the gruffallo. Grace won it for the best homemade costume she was a mouse in a mouse trap.

We played wrap the mummy so we got put into six different groups we got 4 toilet rolls and wrapped the people so they looked like mummy’s the 4th group won the game but they deserved it. It was really funny and messy.