The Tallest Class in Banton Primary
The Children rose to the NLC Learning Hub Christmas Engineering Challenge.
We posted an in progress report Christmas Engineering Challenge Part 1 last week.
We lost some time on Friday as no children were in school due to snow.
This week we finished off and have started to make movies of our reindeer. All of the groups managed all of the chilli challenges! Watch the movies to see how. (A couple more currently in production)
The NLC Learning Hub has issued a Christmas Engineering Challenge:
The biggies started work this morning. We are making Reindeer from Cardboard and hope to include movement, electrics & coding. It might take a while…
Most of the groups got a lot of their model finished this morning. We used our teamwork, creativity & problem solving skills. On group got on to the moving part:
By lunchtime we had made a lot of progress:
More to do…
We have had a busy week in the Biggies. The school show practise is well underway and the class are making great progress with expression and clarity.
On Monday half the class went off to the local Football Festival, the remaining children worked on construction of a Christmas tree. We will be decorating it and using some more makedo screws for cardboard construction.
On Wednesday we had a visit from Ms Cooper to help us with scientific enquiry. The class learned about using variables in experiments and mixed some alkali with acid to produce foam.
We have been starting to work on a new podcast for BBPOD. Today the class worked on their scripts. The atmosphere in the class was great. Everyone was really engaged with working with their partners, writing, editing and trying out the word. I am really looking forward to listing to this one.
Last week we had a visit from Balmalloch Digital Leaders. These primary seven children help pupils and teachers in Balmalloch with digital learning.
They wanted to learn a bit about how the Biggies have been using their micro:bit. The Biggies helped them through the setting up of their micro:bits with their iPads an we walked through making a Rock, Paper, Sissors game with them, like this:
We also demonstrated our micro:bit voting system. This is nearly working!
It was good fun working with pupils from another school and to share some of our skills.
Thanks to Mrs Grant for the header image in this post. As it was a dress down day you can’t tell which school the pupils come from.
Kindness makes us feel like this.
Last week was #AntiBullingWeek We took some ideas from the Anti-Bullying Alliance to discuss.
We were thinking about when people had been kind to us and how that made us feel.
On Wednesday the Biggies had one of our outdoor learning days. We started with a treasure hunt to find words to treasure. We will share some of the words later on.
Then we worked on some measure for maths. We were measuring some of the pallets, tarps and other things we use for den building.
Finally we split into teams and built some dens. We ere working on our playing, leadership, communication, problem solving and practical skills.
A few days ago we as a class went out side and practiced using adjectives, nouns and verbs and how we did that was we described autumn on coloured paper basically to make a short poem.
For maths we done measuring and how we that was we brought out all of the different things in the shed and got partners to measure them in meter and centimetres.
Hazel
Yesterday it was our outdoor day. We stared the day off by doing some literacy, at literacy we we got some pieces of paper, the thing on the front would show what ever we see that is in that category, adjective, noun or verb. Wwe would write on the back. A the end we made leaf drawings. put those word in it.
Then for maths we had gathered all the Palettes and tarps, we went in groups and we had to measure those items. after lunch we used all of those Items to make a den and the den which was the best won.
Josh
On Wednesday it was an out door leaning day and when we were doing maths we put out the pallets, planks and tadpoles we measured them and took a photo to show the measurements of the pallets, plank and tarpaulins. Alex
We have been learning a little about Remembrance Day
Earlier this week the Biggies followed this great video to make some beautiful poppies.
We have been collecting money for Poppy Scotland
Today we took some of the words we had found in the playground to the gym. This gave us a bit of space to spread out and play with nouns, verbs and adjective. We made colour coded adjective, now, verb phrases that were poetic, somewhat were silly and some that were just weird!
Watch this space to see our words blow in the wind…
Last week we took the next step in our Bee Hotel Project and planted the Bee Buffets with wild flower seeds. We will see what comes up in the spring.
We might try and make the hotel itself even more welcoming to insects as some will be wanting somewhere cosy to bed down for the winter.
thanks to the Rotary Club of Kilsyth for all their help with the project.
Before the Halloween party last Friday the Biggies got their photos taken against our green screen (A big bit of green cloth).
Today they remove the background from their pictures. They used Keynote to create a layered image with their picture on a suitable background. They then exported this to a jpeg image.
As well as creativity the class used their ICT skills. They are getting an understanding of layering and cropping, exporting images to a suitable format and beginning to understand using Creative commons images with attribution!
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