We are making some progress using our Makerspace to work on out Cardboard Automata, here is a video from last week:
Highlights of the Week 10 Mar 2023
The Biggies did a great job working with the primary 1 & 2s in our ‘makerspace’ this week. Last week they helped the wee one design a mythical creature and this week we got to tether to create cardboard versions. We shall makes these into 3D creatures in the next couple of weeks.
In maths we had a Scratch Challenge:
Josh did a great job, including working out how to use messaging to stop sprites deleting other sprites drawings:
We saw a different sort of shape with this triangle in the playground:
World Book Day
We did a whole lot of World Book Day related tasks yesterday. Including mashing up book titles to make our own handwriting blurbs for them and some blackout poetry.
Miro Inspired Art
We have been looking at some art by Joan Miró and are planning to make some Miró inspired sculpture. We started by trying some pictures inspired by Miró’s work.
Highlights of the week, seismographs & science
We have had a busy week this week. Highlights for me included our work on Earthquakes. The children did some research to find out the basic facts and yesterday made some model seismographs to explore how these instruments works.
Learning about Earthquakes
We used our research skills to find how about earthquakes.
States of Matter
Mr Wevling started a new science topic, looking at the different states of matter.
The Biggies at Strathclyde Park
The Primary Sevens are visiting Strathclyde park every day this week, for some outdoor learning with Strathclyde Park Outdoor Education Programme.
Here is a collection of short ‘videos’ of the adventures. The playlist will be added to each day.
Monday Outdoors at Strathclyde day 1
Tuesday More Bows & Boats
Tuesday Strathclyde Archery & Climbing
Wednesday Strathclyde Park Bushcraft
Thursday Team Building
Friday: Bikes & Orienteering
Scale Model Dens
Last year, the class went out to the playground and measures lots of the den building materials:
This year we took these measurements, scaled them down by a factor of 10 and then made scale models of dens.
the class also made scale models of themselves at the same scale as the dens.
The children then made wee videos of their learning using iMovie or clips.
Model Montage
Show You Scale Models
Dens- scaled models
Scaled Model Dens
There are a couple of videos still to be finished and we will add these to the playlist when done.
Banton Biggies Podcast Episode 7
One on our podcast the class has just posted a new episode. The first this session.
The class worked really hard and independently on creating this.
From scripting when we hard a brilliant literacy session, class showed iron concentration, talking, listening and editing for flow. Working on expression and talking for an audience.
And recording.
to making musical ‘stings’ and editing the audio.
And finally Publishing.
Christmas Engineering Challenge
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)
reindeer 1
Reindeer 2
Reindeer 3
reindeer 4
reindeer 5
Christmas Engineering Challenge Part 1
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…
