Tag Archives: Outdoor Learning
Outdoor Learning
As much as we are enjoying this beautiful sunny weather, we are very aware of how much water we need to give to our crops outside.
Heather and Kasey have been working hard daily to keep our foods well watered. Look at how much they have grown! Almost ready for picking 🙂
Outdoor Learning
This week we planted some beetroot, carrots, parsnips and spinach. They should grow in a few weeks so that we can prepare and eat them
Our potatoes, rhubarb, onions and leeks are growing nicely. We checked them over and took away any weeds that were growing.
Grid References
Today we created a grid that showed Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. – Heather
We used people to show direction and movement. – Sophia
We learned about compass points and looked at how the sun helped us to see which direction we were facing. – Lewis
In our grid we used letters and numbers to show the x and y axes. – Holli
Position & Movement
We have been learning about positional language and how we can use clear instructions to help us move from one place to another. We worked with a partner to use directional and positional language to instruct each other how to successfully reach another point of the playground. We had to carry out quarter turns, half turns, full turns, take forward steps and side steps. Our instructions had to be very clear as to which direction we had to take. We used language like clockwise, anti-clockwise, forward, back, to the side and stop.
It was a lot of fun!
Outdoor Learning
Today we planted rhubarb. We will nurture it and watch it grow then in a couple of weeks should be able to eat it.
We checked on our onions and leeks.
An experiment we did showed the onions we grew in class had very small roots but long stalks, where the ones we grew outside have very small tips but huge long roots. This helped us to see the difference sunlight makes when growing onions.
Outdoor Learning
Today we planted onions in pots that will be moved into the planters when the roots grow to give them the best start.
We can’t wait to add them to our soup mix with all the other vegetables we plan to grow.
Growing Herbs and Vegetables
We have been growing herbs and vegetables in the classroom, and today we replanted them into pots that will allow them to grow separately.
We replanted leeks and lemon coriander. Both of which we hope to use in cooking when fully grown.
Making a Wormery
We had to weed the beds and gather leaves then put them into a big sack until it was almost full. We then added worms and mixed them into the leaves and weeds, then close it over tightly to keep the worms warm and safe.
As long as the worms are happy they will help to make soil that will fertilize our herbs and vegetables.
Kitted Out for Outdoor Learning
Check out how fabulous we look in our new jackets and wellies. These have been kindly donated by NLC and we are very grateful as they will help to keep us clean(ish) when we are learning in the outdoor environment.
