This is a little video telling you about function machines that me and Islay made. We used iMovie to do just about all of our editing, we used Lego movie to take the photos.
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
Rugby festival
Today we went to the rugby festival at st Patrick’s primary school. There was lots of schools there like chapel green, Banton primary, st Patrick’s and more.
Firstly we got split into Banton 1 and Banton 2 we were only allowed seven people in each team so some people had to be back up people. The field that we were playing on was so much bigger than we were used to. Both teams had 2 rounds so we had 4 games between us. We went up against other schools and had lots of fun and I think we did very well scoring tries.
Junior Leaders
This afternoon we were in the playground with primary 1, 2 and 3.
As junior leaders we had to remember NEDS.
Name, explain, demonstrate and safety.
We organised games for the younger children.
Reviewing Poetry from WAB
We have been reading the 5M Poetry Anthology . Their school in in Beijing in China!
Please read my class’s poetry and comment below. Inspired, in part, by @MichaelRosenYes @moses_brian @Jack_Prelutsky Spike Milligan and Lewis Carroll. (Some of these kids were beginner English in August) @WAB_LIVE https://t.co/E6rmQcgg4t
— Mr M (@athole) March 31, 2018
Click on the images to read our reviews.
Contour art
We made contour art. We looked at maps and there were lines they are contour lines they tell you how steep the mountain is. The closer the lines are the steeper.
when we were painting them we had a look at contrast colours.
Rugby
For the last couple of weeks on a Monday we have been getting rugby a rugby coach has been coming in to do it with us.
When we first started everyone was dropping the ball and couldn’t catch it. Now we can do a full game of touch rugby it did take a lot of practise but now everyone understands the rules. Sometimes we play a game where we get split into teams and the first team to get 7 passes without dropping it wins. During that the other team try’s to get the ball whilst it’s in the air. It is so different from what we started like and what we are like now.
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
Sharing the Learning
Sharing the Learning
Sharing the Learning
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.
