Month: May 2017
Building on our Learning
This week we have been really building on our learning from the weeks before.
We got some excellent news this week, our camera trap film won in the category learning & progression! Our prize is a brand new camera trap of our own! We are very excited as it means we can try and attract different animals into our garden. We would love to get more mammals like hedgehogs, foxes and deer. We are also thinking about how to attract reptiles and amphibians!
We welcomed our new p1s for their second visit. They enjoyed a scavenger hunt and planting some sunflower seeds.
This week we have been finding out about electrical circuits to add light to our lighthouse models. Check out our video below and watch out next week for the results of our experiments.
We have been practicing hard for our Highland Games this weeks challenge was the 3 legged race. It was quite tricky especially if your partner is smaller than you! But we were determined and we kept going (and laughing!)
May/June newsletter
Lighthouse Engineering & Outdoor Fun!
We have been developing our engineering skills this week by designing, building and testing our own lighthouse models.
We have been using estimation, measure, problem solving, team work, and identifying good materials. It took a lot of persevering. We tested the lighthouses against the rain (watering can), wind (cardboard), waves (tray of water) You can see the results in our videos. The most successful lighthouses had good foundations either rocks, sand or water.
We spent almost all of Thursday outdoors for outdoorlearning day! We explored directions, angles and wrote stories too! We finished off the day with a game of tennis.
Another highlight of our week was meeting our new P1s! We loved showing them around and introducing ourselves.
The Wee Robbie
We loved taking part in the Wee Robbie yesterday! Check out this short film https://youtu.be/CLrfs9wDrbI We think the Daily Mile has definitely helped with our fitness, we were all determined to keep going even when it felt difficult.
We have ben using our maths skills to measure up our planting areas, Freya had a great idea that instead of buying seeds we could ask people to send in any spare ones they had and we have had loads in already!
We have had more collagraph fun, this time we thought about the feedback we gave ourselves and tried to make improvements. We are going to enter these prints into the Fortingall Art Competition.
As part of our Little Lighthouse project we have been thinking about the history of lighthouses. We were also finding out about Grace Darling. Erin, Jago and Enzo put together this news report! https://youtu.be/Su-J_juGRjQ
P1 and P2 did some very dramatic drawings of the rescue to help them tell her story.
Cool week
This week we were making prints of lighthouses out of foam, ink and a plate. We stuck the foam on the plate and then we rolled ink on the foam then we put paper over it an gave it a rub. Next we peeled it off the paper. It is called a collagraph.
We started creating characters for our new books and we made our first paragraph with our characteristics in it.
P5s started kayaking at loch Tay with Kenmore school it was very scary and fun, next week we are capsizing. We are looking forward to it.
P5s went right angel hunting!
p1,2,3,4 were doing positions and movement
We have finished our plans for the term, we will change things as we go if we need to.
We have sent our Camera Trap competition entry away – fingers crossed! We really loved the project and seeing what animals visit the garden.
We have been using the Daily Mile to practise for the Wee Robbie next week!
