Tag: Social studies

Languages Week Scotland

To celebrate Language Week Scotland we have been inspired by the movie Encanto to learn some Spanish words. Some boys in girls in the class already knew some Spanish words and taught them to us too!

Some boys and girls in the class also enjoyed teaching us how to say hello in a language they speak at home. Thank you boys and girls!

We also learned about the meaning of valuing diversity in our community and enjoyed exploring and discussing everyone in the class’ culture. We are looking forward to continuing to learn about Valuing diversity in Barrhead.

Inspired by The Madrigals in Encanto we thought about how we could use a gift to help others. We created an imaginative diary entry. We also designed a door to reflect our chosen gifts. Here are our star writers! Although everyone in the class did so well, it was a hard choice!

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on February 3, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags Health and Wellbeing, IDL, Languages Week Scotland, Literacy and English, Social studies, Writing

COP26 Note Taking

We have been learning to take notes using bullet points. Today we watched a video clip about COP 26 and discussed what we already know about it. We took notes about we found out.

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on September 27, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags Literacy and English, Social studies

Reporters for the day!

We have been learning about reporting the news! We wrote newspaper reports and then we used what we learned about John Shanks’ death to create a script for a news report. We enjoyed playing around with green screen app on the iPads to make it look like we were inside the factory in 1895. We also discovered the very first moving picture was created in 1895!

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on September 15, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags Social studies

The History of Barrhead: The Shanks Family

We have been learning about influential figures in history who shaped Barrhead. We are researching John Shanks. Lots of boys and girls have done their own research at home and have been sharing it with the class this week. Thank you so much for all your hard work boys and girls! Lots of children have discovered that their grans, grandpas, great grans and great grandpas worked for Shanks & Co.

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on September 10, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags Social studies

Social Studies

We have been learning about our local environment and people who help us in our community.

We have been talking about people who help us in our family’s and drawing amazing family portraits. The boys and girls have presented excellent solo talks on their family, if you have not completed this homework there is still time to bring in a photograph or picture from home!

We have been investigating emergency services and how they can help us. We have watched video clips, played games on the ipads today we wrote a story with a beginning, middle and end about an emergency. All the children created an excellent story about an emergency vehicle coming to the rescue!

Next week the pupils have decided they would like to build a model of an emergency vehicle. We would love your help! If you could send in any recycling such as; any sized boxes and washed out plastic bottles. Thank you!

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on March 13, 2020March 13, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags Social studies

Social Studies

MThe boys and girls in Primary 1 enjoyed sharing their experiences of a special event, they brought in lots of special things from a special event to show and tell to their class. We discussed lots of Christmas experiences as it’s advent.

We decided to plan a special event, our Christmas Party. We created a mind map of all the things we needed.

Today we followed our plan and our event was a hug success!

First we made lots of decorations. Then to begin we had a disco in the gym hall, followed by party games (pass the parcel, musical statues, musical bumps and musical chaired). We had party snacks and popped Christmas crackers! Final we got a special present.

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on December 21, 2019December 21, 2019Categories UncategorizedTags Christmas, Social studies

Christmas in the past

For homework pupils have been asked to bring in a picture or an item from a Christmas in the past.

Emmie kicked off our presentations today, bringing her teddy from her first Christmas. What a special thing to share with the class, she spoke confidently in front of her class and answered some very interested questions her class asked her. Well done! We are all looking forward to lots more!

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on December 8, 2019December 8, 2019Categories UncategorizedTags Literacy and English, Social studies

Dinosaurs 🦕

Our questions led us to finding out about carnivores and herbivores. Excellent investigation skills boys and girls!

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on September 16, 2019September 18, 2019Categories UncategorizedTags Social studies

Dinosaurs!

We discussed the following experience and outcome;

I am aware that different types of evidence can help me to find out about the past.
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Some boys and girls thought dinosaurs were something we could explore from the past, we all agreed that was a fantastic context to explore different types of evidence to find out about the past.

We made a mind map of all the things we want to learn about dinosaurs.

We are really looking forward to finding out about dinosaurs!

Author gw17kennedyclaire@glowPosted on September 12, 2019Categories UncategorizedTags Social studies