Category Archives: Social Studies

Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies

Sharing Memories

  On Thursday we had visitors from Montgomerie court come in to meet with Primary 4.

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We were able be share our memories together. p4-2-montgomerie-court-098

We brought in baby photos to share and the visitors brought pictures of their memories to share with us.

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We sang songs together and had a chance to share our memories in groups.

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“It was fun  and we learned what we looked like when we were younger” Andrew.

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“I enjoyed seeing everyone’s pictures” Jack

 

“I liked seeing the pictures they brought in from when they were at school, they were really cool and it was cool to see what the school was like when they were at school” Reid.p4-2-montgomerie-court-095

Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies

The National Museum of Rural Life

“We went to visit the Museum of Rural Life,. When we were there we went up to the farm and got to see all of the animals. There were pigs, cows, chickens, calves, horses, sheep and a cat.” Eva Munro

 

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We were split into groups and each went to a different activity:

The museum, the farm and a workshop.

 

 

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dscn0105 “I liked the museum because I liked looking at the tractors” Jaime

 

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” I liked going to the farm because we got to learn lots of facts about the animals, We learnt that cows have to get their horns taken off when they are young so they cant be hurt if they fight”. Sarah McNicol.

 

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“My favourite animals in the farm were the colourful pigs”. Anna McCoan

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“I liked the tractor ride it was fun!” Jackson

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“The most interesting part of our learning context has been going on our trip, it was fun going there because I have not been there in a long time and it was good going on the tractor ride and seeing animals”. Scott Fraser.

 

Social Studies, Technologies, Uncategorized

Creative K’NEX

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Primary 4 have been learning about farming machinery within their learning context this term.

We were set a challenge to build a tractor using K’nex.

We used a mixture of big K’nex and mini K’nex to make farming vehicles including tractors.

We were put in partners to work together.

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We all made a different type of tractor.

 

We had a design brief which gave us the criteria of the tractor. This included having to have a movable door on the tractor.

 

To start the challenge we drew a diagram in our jotters of the machine to help when we were creating our models.

We had to work together as a team in order to meet our success criteria.

We had to stick to the size set out in the design brief, this was challenging.

 

“I liked getting partnered with people we don’t normally work with” Heather.

‘It was fun when we got to see other peoples machines’ James.

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‘I like seeing if people had seeders, sprayers or a plough’ Anna McK.

‘It was fun making tractors with K’nex and its a really good thing to do as most people don’t get to do it and to work with other people’ Scott.

 

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‘It was fun because iv never done something like this in school before’.  Nico.

Expressive Arts, Social Studies

 

OUR LOCAL SHOPS

During technology, we worked in groups to plan and create our own local shop.

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Eva- “I enjoyed making the moving part. It was the door” Lily- “I enjoyed making candy and sticking it on”

We had success criteria that we had to follow. Our shop must have: a logo, catchy shop name and a moving part.

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Eloise- “We had to take ideas from everyone in the group to create our shop”