Outdoor Learning – Our Local Beach

Our term 4 topic is “Sea and Seashore.”  P2’s 3 key questions are:

  1. What living things do we find at the seashore?
  2. Where in sea do different creatures live?
  3. Who keeps us safe at the seashore?

We started by remembering our road safety rules that we learned when we were the JRSO’s for the school in Term 2 as part of pupil leadership. We lead the walk to the beach safely. Today we were learning what we find on the seashore at the stoney beach, we were particularly interested in different shapes, patterns, sizes of shells and stones. We were trying to find Grotti Buckies but we did not have any luck today. Some of us were aware of litter on the beach and began to discuss with our peers and our teachers the impact of litter in the sea.

Pupil Voice:

“This is a nice shell, it has a straight pattern”

“This rock has a smiley face on it”

“Rubbish is not good for the beach, I have picked up plastic, I will put it in the bin”

“This is called a rock pool, my dad and me found a crab in one of these once”.

Meta-skills: When we got back to class we washed our sea treasures and will have them in our play provision. We discussed what meta-skills we were using. Children felt they were using their– Collaborating, Focusing, Leading, Curiosity skills.

Outdoor Learning – Numeracy

We have been learning how to collect information/data using tally charts and how to display our data in bar graphs and pictograms.

P2 suggested our next survey be to gather data about the colour of cars coming down the Sound Brae. P2 really enjoyed this experience:

Pupil Voice:

“Silver was the most popular car, I have 34 tallies”

”Blue cars were the least, I only saw 4”

”I forgot to use a diagonal line for 5 so I have taken one off the end and put it diagonally… I have 9 red cars in total”.

P2 shared their data with each other, discussing the most frequent, least, any differences and some were counting in 5s to total their information. We added our data to bar graphs, using multiples of 2 as our number topic with Ms Mitchell is counting on 2s we were applying our skills from her maths into data handling.

We’re a moving on to chance and uncertainty as our next numeracy topic with Mrs Sjoberg.

IDL – Topic Learning

This term our topic has been ‘Festivals and Celebrations’ we asked the pupils what they wanted to learn, they asked to learn about celebrations people have and the kind of beliefs they have, learners also wanted to know if we have the same beliefs.

We learned about remembrance day, birthdays, Diwali, Hannukah and Christmas. Here is a picture of our topic wall:

Our drawing club book has been ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson. We have enjoyed every moment of drawing and writing about stickman, we have made a winter Stickman display and today we had a movie morning watching the BBC Stickman.

The last photo is our ‘Learning Journey Wall’ – the children choose photos to add and we decided to add some pupil voice quotes this term to tell the story of our learning.

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