Banton Buddies

This term we have started a new topic, all about the human body! We are very excited to learn how our bodies work looking at our bones, organs and senses.
Last week was the Mexican holiday -el Día de los Muertos, The Day of the Dead, when families gather in colourful costumes to celebrate and remember their loved ones. We loved creating moving skeletons in the deigns that are seen during el Día de los Muertos. We also investigated why we have a skeleton.

Homework Table November

Homework should be completed by Monday each week. Please bring your homework jotters and folders in every Monday, so I can hand out any materials needed for that week. Take a picture of your homework tasks and upload them to the assignment section on teams for that assigned week. We will also have time in class on Monday to upload these if needed. If there are any problems, please let me know. Enjoy!

Last Friday was our spooky Halloween party in school. We all had an amazing time playing in the games and we even won splat the pumpkin! Don’t we all look amazing?

We had lots of fun painting our own landscapes!

We have been learning all about our right to the proper health care, clean water, nutritious food and and a safe environment.  We then crated our own definition of what being healthy means to us.

As part of our topic, we have been learning about natural disasters. We were thinking about the impacts they can have on people and on the land. We learned that buildings need to be stabile to survive an earthquake. As part of our learning, we

became engineers and had lots of fun designing and creating our own buildings that a could survive an earthquake – the table shaking!

This term we have been enjoying regularly visiting the school library and picking new books to read. We have loved sharing our books with our friends and having the opportunity to read for enjoyment. We have even been exploring reading in some weird places!

During October, we have been learning about how we can keep our bodies healthy. In PE we have been learning about the importance of fitness. We have had lots of fun creating and leading our own warm ups for our peers. We have also been challenging ourselves doing circuit courses and fitness workouts. These were hard work! We now know why and how our hearts beat faster and our breathing increases when we exercise.

This week is Maths Week Scotland! We are learning all about the importance of maths is our everyday lives.

In class we have explored how maths can make art. As part of our homework this week, we are trying to create some of our own masterpieces using maths.

https://www.mathsweek.scot/news/maths-makes-art

Last week we had our first outdoor learning day of the new school year. We loved taking our learning outside and exploring.

In maths we have been learning different addition and subtraction strategies. On Wednesday we practiced different strategies such as, using a number line, using doubles and adding multiples of 10 & 100 to decimal numbers, with chalk. We took photos on our iPads of our amazing work.

We have been exploring all the different places where we can read outside of the classroom. Some of us even took reading to an upside down level!

In September we have also been learning about what it means to be safe in Health and Wellbeing. Through this we have been thinking about the how we can keep ourselves and others safe during PE. We have been learning about the importance of warming up and cooling down our bodies when we participating in sport. We have even been leading our own warm ups for the class.