Banton Buddies

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.

Please click on the link below and pick one of the spelling tasks to complete for homework this week.

These tasks should be completed in your homework jotters and will be uploaded to teams during class time on Thursday.

Fun Spelling Tasks

On Tuesday morning p3/4/5 went on a class trip to the woods. As part of our topic this term we have been learning all about Scotland’s landscape and famous landmarks. We were all very excited, especially after the horrible rain cancelled our trip on Friday. We found lots of interesting things in the woods, meet lots of little creepy crawly friends and even saw the fairy lands! We loved using our magnifying tubs to collect and examine what we found. What a great morning!

We have been learning about our rights and began working on our class charter. We decided that our charter would be an underwater theme, where we would become scuba divers! We voted as a class and decided that our top 3 rights for our charter would be:

Article 3- All adults should do what is best for you

Article 24- You have the right to a clean and safe environment

Article 42 – You have the right to know your rights!

We were all very excited to get back to school after a long summer and meet our new teacher! We have had a great first month back and most of us have loved exploring our new classroom. We started in August by having a hard think what our goals could be for this year . Everyone is very determined to try their very best to achieve these goals by June.