Today we were learning about arrays so we went outside and made arrays using items from nature.
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Snow!
P3MG were enjoying the snow this week. We set ourselves a challenge to work in groups of 3 to see who could make the biggest snow ball. We’d forgotten to take out any measuring implements so we had to compare the biggest ones to decide who won.
Day 2, we remembered some string so we were able to measure the height and circumference of some big snowballs.
We also enjoyed some free play in the snow; throwing snowballs, building snowmen and tunnels, and standing under a tree whilst someone shook it to make it snow on us.
Back in the classroom we wrote a poem about snow:
I am
sky swirling
flakes falling
trees rustling
hedgehogs hiding
smiles beaming
shovels scraping
windscreens freezing
feet crunching
cheeks pinking
eyelashes glittering
children shivering
balls flying
gloves patting
fingers freezing
boots squelching
I am snow.
P1M
Our learning journey so far…
We have been busy bees!
We have been learning all about numbers to 20
We have been learning all about the sky. We were super scientists and did the Rainbow Walking Water Experiment.
We had lots of fun at our Forest School Bonfire!
P1M
Kippenrait Glen!
On Monday of last week Primary 7 visited Kippenrait Glen (or the Darn Walk) as part of their John Muir Award.
We left at 9.30am to begin the 20minute walk to the Glen, we had to be well prepared with our lunches and sensible clothing and shoes for the day! It was a pretty soggy day so most of us had wellies or walking boots and waterproofs to keep dry!
We made our first stop at the very start of the walk just off the golf course where we stopped to do some activities on Lichen and Tree classification, we used flow charts to identify the different characteristics of the tree to find out what they were!
We then walked on for another 20minutes or so until we made it to a big field. There we completed the majority of our activities, things like…
Eau D’Outdoors – where we created our own perfumes from the leaves, berries and scents of the outdoors.
I Can See A Rainbow – we found a variety of different coloured objects in the field and woods of the colours of the rainbow!
Tree Measuring – we used the strategies we had learned last week to measure the height and girth of the trees in the field and recorded this in our books, we found a variety of different trees and heights.
Senses Alphabet – we used our senses to find something from each letter of the alphabet… Not sure anyone managed to find x and z though!
We also looked at activities with mirrors and looking at the world from a different point of view,
Afterwards it was time for lunch and we were lucky enough to be able to eat it outside!
The final activity we completed after lunch was visiting the Robert Louis Stevenson cave. In groups we entered the cave and thought about words we could use to describe it ready for some imaginative writing this week.
We arrived back at school at 2.20pm, tired and muddy after our busy day!
P7 Outdoor Learning
Primary 7 have started working towards their John Muir Awards. As part of this award our P7 learners are starting to learn about their local area, for this we will be visiting Kippenrait Glen (the Darn Walk). Yesterday we had to take our learning outdoors to practise some of the activities we will be completing when we visit the Glen next week!
We worked with Mr Gall to measure the height of trees with just a pencil, measuring tape and a friend, Miss May helped us to use touch to explore some of the plants we have in our school playground and Mrs Hislop taught us to use our other senses – sight, smell and sound to complete a senses alphabet looking at the sights, sound and smells of our local environment!
We are looking forward to taking our learning to the Glen next week!
RHET Foodie Workshop
Today P7H did an exciting workshop with Sarah from RHET. First we went outside to the planters to harvest some of our vegetables. We had to pick one onion, four leaves of red and yellow chard and some peas per pair.
Next we took our harvest into the kitchen and started to make our coleslaw. We were split up into pairs and one person had to wash and prepare the chard, squeezed lemon juice, and added oil, cinnamon and herbs, whilst the others grated carrots, washed and chopped onions, ripped mint and added yoghurt and honey.
At the end we mixed both partners ingredients together to get our coleslaw.
Bhayleigh “It tasted so yummy!”
Oscar “Making it was fun and it was tasty.”
Harry “I started crying because of the onions.”
Carys “I tried new foods.”
Dan “It tasted like Santa giving you a hug.”
Emma “I didn’t know chard was thing, now I like the taste.”
