P2/3 carried out a litter pick after playtime on Friday 19 June for Glenmanor’s Eco Day of Action. They worked in trios using gloves and a litter picker to collect the litter. The Janitor thought there wasn’t much litter to be found but P2/3 searched high and low and found a whole carrier bag full! Well done boys and girls! Here are some photographs.
1. Get a pot.
2. Add soil.
3. Place the bean in the soil making sure the split part of the bean is at the top of the soil.
4. Add water.
5. Sit in the sunlight and water every day.
If you take good care of your plants they will grow really tall.
P2/3 have enjoyed taking care of their plants and helping Mrs Ewart to find the sunlight.
P2/3 shared their ideas for their favourite sandwich. You will not be surprised to hear that ‘chocolate spread’ was very popular! As we are a Health Promoting School though, pupils came up with alternatives such as banana sandwiches, jam, ham and cheese. Everyone had to spread and/or cut their ingredients and then enjoy eating them. On our second visit to the Learning Kitchen last week, a number of pupils decided to be ‘extra healthy’ and add some salad to their sandwiches. Please have a look at the photograph gallery below. Someone has been very adventurous and made a jam and banana sandwich with tomatoes! Can you see who it is?
P2/3 were in the Learning Kitchen this week and enjoyed working with the colourful vegetables that can be used in a salad. They used a cutting technique called ‘the claw’ to help them cut their vegetables safely. As well as learning to cut safely, this experience gave children the opportunity to taste the different vegetables. To make this fun, each child made their own colourful, rainbow salad face and then with a little mayo, they started to crunch away. If you like eating nachos and dipping them into salsa, why don’t you add a few crunchy vegetables to dip?
P2/3 had a fabulous time when they visited Dumfries House in March. They were exploring what plants needed to grow and how to recycle some food waste by making a compost bottle. The grounds of Dumfries House are quite spectacular and would be a great place to explore the outdoors with your family. There is a great adventure play park too. Here are some photographs to show you what fun we had.
Primary 2/3 welcomed their visitors today and they were excited to share their learning. We have been learning about what a plant needs to grow and we have been demonstrating this by taking care of the beans we planted.
We were learning indoors and outdoors today as groups of children and their visitors explored our amazing sensory garden. One of the tasks was to use your senses to record what they could see, hear, touch and smell in the garden. Another task was to search for shapes in the garden. Back in the classroom we were making our own plant pots from newspaper. It was tricky but fun! We then planted a sunflower seed in this. We enjoyed looking at sunflowers and drawing the beautiful flower. We have some great artists in P2/3. It is great to look after our environment so we also reused materials to make a ‘rot pot’ otherwise known as a compost bottle. We showed our knowledge of looking after a plant by sorting words into two columns, what a plant needs and parts of a plant.
Some of our visitors also shared their knowledge with us about planting and where the sunflowers came from. Do you know?
We hope you enjoy looking at some of our picture and reading the comments that the children shared after the event.
“It was fun to go outside to look for things in the garden. When I came back in I planted a sunflower seed.” Chloe
“I enjoyed doing the cut and stick with my mum. It was good having her to help me.” Rocco
“I liked it when Danielle came in to help me and Cole make the compost bottle.” Caolan
“I like picking the grass for the compost bottle and that my gran came in to help me.” James
“My favourite activity was drawing the sunflower because I like drawing. I was happy to see my gran.” Katie
“I liked the cutting out the words and putting them on the sheet.” Aaron
“I liked making the compost bottle with my mum. We worked together and poured the water in. I liked making my own pot too.” Sienna
“I went out into the garden looking for things with my family. My mum was frightened when she saw the spiders.” Emma
“I was happy that my mum and my wee brother came. I liked making the compost bottle. Alisha
“I went outside with Mrs Ewart and I saw a slug. It was moving really slow next to the yellow plant.” Gerrard
“I liked my mum coming to help me do my work. We cut the grass in the garden. I gave my mum an invitation to come.” Aiden
“I counted lots of squares outside. I found 65. I saw rectangles, the flower beds and the drain. There was a slug and two spiders.” Jack
“I liked today because my mummy came and my wee sister. We went outside to cut the grass for the compost bottles.” Bekah
“I was happy because my mum came to help me. The compost bottle was fun and I liked spraying the water into it. I liked planting the seed and can’t wait to take it home.” Cole
Where you a visitor in our classroom today?
Why don’t you tell us what you enjoyed?
