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.
Junior Leaders
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
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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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BBC big bird watch 2018
BBC big bird watch Primary 4-7
One day we went to participate in the BBC big bird watch so we went round Banton not right round so we went past every single house but we did go round the majority of the village. Mr Carter was here because he helps us with the nature sort of stuff at our school. We went round after lunch time it took us a while.
We seen loads of birds like
• Blackbirds
• Robins
• Blue tits
• Street pigeons
• Collared dove
• Starlings
• Jackdaws
• Chaffinch
• Crow
• House sparrows
• Rooks
• Carrion crows
• Wood pigeons
There was 109 different birds we spotted the most common birds we spotted were starlings and jackdaws it was quite fun some people had binoculars with them like people took shots of Mr. Johnson’s and Mr. Carter also had some and me too. It was a amazing time for some of us but some people moaned about how sour there feet and legs were.
you can read about some of the birds we see in Banton Birds.
By Emma
Blaeberry Mou
The Biggies have been making some animations of “Blaeberry Mou” a poem in Scots by William Soutar.
Listen out for Fulton’s playing of the chanter!
Blaeberry Mou
The flitterin faces come doun the brae
And the baskets gowd and green;
And nane but a blindie wud speer the day
Whaur a’ the bairns hae been.
The lift is blue, and the hills are blue,
And the lochan in atween;
But nane sae blue as the blaeberry mou’
That needna tell whaur it’s been.
William Soutar
