On Wednesday 23rd April we attended the John Muir Festival along with P3. It was a celebration of John Muir's approach of experiencing the great outdoors. It was also to commerate his birth which was on Monday 21st April, 1838 and the opening of the new John Muir Way.
The festival took place on a section of the new John Muir Way, stretching 134 miles from Dunbar, his birth place, to Helensburgh on the West Coast of Scotland.
We walked for a mile along the Edinburgh Canal before taking part in a selection of activities where we observed and documented the sights and sounds around us. It was a very successful and enjoyable morning and a great way for us to kick start our work for the Explorer John Muir Award which we hope to complete before the summer term.
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| Walking a mile in John Muir's shoes |
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| Walking a mile on the new John Muir Way |
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| John Muir shares his love for nature as we walk |
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| Creating seed bombs |
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| Mixing the seeds with the soil |
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| Moudling it in to a ball to create the seed bomb |
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| Catapulting the seed bombs in to the prepared soil |
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| Shooting the seed bombs |
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| John Muir talks about one of his inventions |
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| It was a water clock |
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| 10 minutes to record all that we can see around us |
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| Time to draw what we see above us in the sky |
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| Lots of different shapes and figures were spotted |
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| Thinking of different ways we can move |
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| Finally a centipede was created through movement |
