ABL
Activity-based learning
ABL stands for Activity Based Learning. Once a week, the children will have the chance to take part in a range of practical activities to help them explore their term topics.
Food
Year 3 enjoyed their food-themed ABL in Term 3. Activities included:
- Food safety memory card game
- Drawing food art based on the artist Guiseppe Arcimboldo
- Design a healthy eating poster
- Create fruit and vegetables out of different materials
- Role play at the Ballinderry Bites cafe!
- Making amounts and calculating change at the M&S shop
- Making words from the Eatwell Plate out of letter block
- Design a menu for a restaurant
School's Cool
For our 'School's Cool' topic, ABL activities included:
- Making words about school out of letter blocks
- Designing a school brochure
- Role play at the school stationary shop
- Designing a school uniform
- Constructing a school out of junk materials
- Building a school bus out of Lego
- Designing a pencil case out of different materials
- Recording a video message as a child from schools in the past on the Chatterpix app
Weather ABL
This term's weather activity stations include:
- Making weather sounds with percussion instruments
- Recording a weather forecast
- Making weather words
- Weather Beebot
- Building a weatherproof roof!
- Making a pinwheel
- Creating 2D shape weather symbols
- Designing a weather poster on the PicCollage app
