Banton Biggies

Home Learning Week 1 Make a timetable.

Hi Biggies,
I hope you are all settling into a routine, keeping safe and having some fun.

Please read this over with your parents, grandparents or whoever is looking after you in the day. Take your time read it carefully.

This week I would like you to do one thing. Make a timetable add it to your e-Portfolio.

Plan how you are going to spend your days. The picture with this post is just one idea, you may organise your day quite differently. You could also make your look nicer than mine😉

I do think you need to have some Literacy, spelling, reading and writing, some maths, some creative activity and some exercise. Please work with your parents or whoever is looking after you on this.

Of course you don’t need to keep to your timetable every day but it is a good idea to have one.

Your Learning Intention is: I can create timetables for different purposes, e.g. parties, school trips and events

Success Criteria:

Create a timetable
Have slots for literacy, maths, exercise and fun.

Once you have your timetable post it to your e-Portfolio. Take a picture if you can or just write it out.

If you have trouble getting onto your e-Portfolio let me know and I’ll try and help.

You can email me or let us know in Teams if you like, some people are chatting there already.
We have also had a few e-Portfolio posts, well done to those people. I’ve put links in the Team chat.

I am also putting some nice, I think, photos in Teams, Jess added a drawing in progress and Aaron has just posted a bird photo. Please do the same. It doesn’t need to be to do with School work.

Please talk to your parents or whoever is caring for you about what you are doing, they will be able to help.

I hope to see you soon, and you are keeping safe and having fun.

Cheers

Mr Johnston

Break the bank

Not sure if this will work. Here’s us playing a maths game.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zbteuue0nk9slcg/20200323_134956.mp4?dl=0

Home Learning

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General Home Learning For the Biggies

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Blogging Tips

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e-mail a voice memo

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Previous Weeks

Playground Photography

The weather is still lovely. We took advantage by going out for a photography session this morning. We tried to be creative in different ways.

Playground Poetry

We have only half a class today, but the sun is shining so we went out and wrote some poems. We wrote some lunes and kennings to describe some of the signs of spring.

Read the poems

Cardboard Engineers part 3

Most of the Biggies have now finished their marvellous machines. They took the basic cams and added some artistic flair.

Some of the class needs to go to the Kilsyth Academy Maths competition this morning so they need a wee bit more time to finish (now added to the video).

We also took some short videos on the machines in action.

Cardboard Engineers part 2

We now have some moving machines, hopefully get them all running and make them beautiful this afternoon.

The Biggies are spending the day tinkering and engineering. Already we have used our maths skills, measuring, dividing and knowing about the properties of shape; Our problem solving; practical skills and helping each other when two hands are not enough. Our next steps will involve more problem solving and practical skills to get our cams and cam folders sorted and finally we will use some creative thinking to finish our models off.

Highlights of the week 28 Feb 2020

The main highlight of my week was the Sharing of Learning for Parents on Thursday. The class made me really proud. Even though we only rehearsed this week, they did a brilliant job, speaking clearly, dancing and singing well. For a wee school Banton makes a lot of noise.

We shared our news films about the Scottish Wars of Independence. For a first try at a large project using iMovie and a green screen the class did really well. Better than their research or ICT skills was the way the pupils worked together. Last weeks, mind-maps show the skills we used (I’ll add more to that post next week)

The movie turned out to be a bit big to show on the blog but I think the parents enjoyed watching.

At maths time the pupils continue to astonish me with their mental maths. Some of the p4 and 5s in particular really aim high. All of the pupils are really making progress with their number talks and explain how they ‘do’ mental maths.

We are looking forward to World Book day next week.

Movie Skills

We have been working hard on creating news programs for some of the main events in the Scottish Wars of independence.

This has involve, research, writing, finding images and audio to use (and attributing those), filming against a green screen and editing. We think we have used many different categories of skill.

Today we took a break and made some mindmaps of some of the skills we used. We used the Kilsyth Academy Skills Framework to help us thing about these skills.

There are a few more to finish and add to the gallery above…