Banton Biggies

“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

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.

Continue reading “Cardboard Architecture”

It is Cold Outside

Check out the main Banton site for things to do if you get bored.

Or You can chat in the our Yammer Group NLC-Banton-Biggies.

Banton it is cold outside!

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.