Birdwatch

We did our birdwatch on Monday and saw lots of a small variety of birds. Everyone worked well together to record the results on the counting chart and the binoculars were passed around for everyone to have a go. We saw a couple of flocks of birds so had to guess at how many birds were in the flock! We logged our results on the RSPB website and were able to make a chart with the 5 types of bird we saw most of. The chart was unable to be copied on to the blog so we had to take a picture of the screen - apologies for the blurry photo.

Not included on the chart are the sparrows and starlings that we spotted.

 

Library Van

On Thursday the Library Van came to the school. All classes get the chance to borrow books and they stay in school until the next visit. We spent some time enjoying these books together in class.

    

Feeding the birds

We put our bird feeders outside before we do our birdwatch. We hung some of them around the trim track and Conrad kindly helped us to hang some from the eves outside the classroom. We hope that this will invite birds to come and visit, and give us more to count on Monday. 

Bird feeders

We are going to take part in the Big School's Bird Watch and more information on this can be found on the RSPB website. By following a set of instructions, we recycled juice cartons to make bird feeders to encourage different birds to come and visit the school grounds, helping us to add as many birds to our bird watch 

as we can when we come to it next week. 

Once the paint has dried we will hang the bird feeders up outside. 

For writing this week, we will have a go at writing our own 

sets of instructions on how to make a bird feeder.

Odd and Even

We are learning about odd and even numbers. We have been sorting playing cards into odd and even piles and using counters to work out if a number can shared evenly or not. We have also been practising a rhyme to help us remember which numbers are odd and which numbers are even.

Bird research

For our flight topic, everyone chose a bird that they would like to find out more about. We discussed what kinds of things we wanted to know. The Primary 6 class kindly helped us to use the internet to help us choose a picture to print and find some information about our birds. We wanted to find out the bird's wingspan, what it eats, what its beak is like and where it lives. Thank you to Primary 6 for their help! 

Wingspans

For our flight topic we have been learning about what wingspan means, and have been finding out the wingspan of different kinds of birds. We had a go at working in groups to measure each other's arm spans.