Blog by Tag: outdoor learning
Mini-Beast Hunt!
In Herons this week, we were learning about mini-beasts and their habitats, We went on a hunt to see what we could find and where we could find them!!
What mini-beasts did you find? What conditions were their habitats? What is your favourite mini-beast?
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Active Maths
Every Friday afternoon we do active Maths. last week we took our fraction work outside.
What did you enjoy about active Maths?
Category: Herons
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We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo!
Herons really enjoyed their visit to Blackpool Zoo last week. They went to see many different types of animals to look at their features and habitats.
What was your favourite part of the trip? What is your favourite animal at Blackpool Zoo and why?
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Our new outdoor area
The Ducklings have enjoyed watching the builders constructing our new outdoor area. They have then been imitating what the builders have been doing!
Category: Ducklings
Bug Hotel
As part of science week, the children in Herons were asked if they would work with the other KS1 classes to help create a bug hotel for our bugs to shelter them. They have made a super start. We cannot wait to show you what it looks like when it is finished.
What did you enjoy the most…
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Brilliant Birds
As part of science week this week, Herons were set a challenge to see if they coulld make a nest as good as birds can. They could only use outdoor materials to help them. They worked together to build a nest to see if it could hold their class bird Squarky.
Did you complete the challenge?…
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*Doves are Investigative Readers
Doves are investigative readers because they search for clues in the text. They also make predictions and search for the meaning of words they don't know by looking them up in a dictionary.
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*A Volcanic Eruption
On Wednesday 24th January, the children investigated what happens during a volcanic eruption and why. We used a fizzy bottle of lemonade to demonstrate the build up of pressure in the magma chamber and re-created an eruption by shaking the lemonade and unscrewing the bottle top. We discussed that…
Category: Doves
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*Doves navigate using angles and degree turns
Today, the children have navigated a partner to reach a goal. They had to use directions including quarter, half and full turns and their corresponding angles. The children really enjoyed 'programming' their partner to reach their destination whilst avoiding obstacles.
Category: Doves
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Making Bird Feeders
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We have been helping the birds in our garden to survive the winter by making bird feeders for them. We have used all the fir cones that we collected in autumn.
Category: Ducklings
Finding different ways to make a total
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The Ducklings have been using their addition skills to explore different ways to make a particular total such as 10 or 5.
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Problem Solving Day in Herons
Today was maths problem solving day and we loved it in Herons class.
We had to solve the problem of sorting out the natural materials outside into a pictogram. We sorted out the leaves, bark, twigs and stones.
We also had the problem of interpreting our data from our tally chart. We needed…
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