Category Archives: OUR CLASS COMMUNITY!
A Fantastic Welcome Back!
We returned to school today after our Easter break to find the most wonderful surprise! Our friends Mrs P and the AllStars have sent us a beautiful book all about Australia …. and the card is fantastic, too!
We contacted them a few weeks ago and asked for some advice about our new topic, ‘Australia’. They gave us some great ideas and now we’ve set up a wiki and we’re going to write our own ‘Online Book’ based on the tips they gave us about what aspects to study. You can keep tabs on our progress by visiting our wiki Here. Thank you, too, to Mr Upton and the miniLegends for the links they sent us. They are going to be very useful.
We’re really looking forward to getting started on this, and we’d love to hear what you think. We’ll post regular updates on our individual blogs as well! We’d especially like to hear comments from anyone in Australia – what a great opportunity we have here to link our two cultures.
Many, many thanks again to Mrs P and the AllStars 🙂
We Were Evacuated! – and We Learned Lots About WW2
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Recently we went on a trip to find out more about life during WW2. We were split into 2 groups. One group was ‘evacuated’ – they really got a feel of what it must have been like … it was scary!
The other group went into a room and looked at real artifacts from the war. They talked about what they had found out.
The groups then swapped over …. it was great!
We took a short video of part of our visit. In it, we are just about to go and get the train to our destination in the countryside. When we got there, a man introduced us to the lady who had agreed to let us live with her. She wasn’t happy with the small amount of money she was given to feed us. She hoped we were very fond of cabbage soup!
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Australia – Here We Come!
Next term, we’re going to be learning all about Australia. We contacted some of our Australian ‘blogging’ friends for some advice.
Mr Upton and the mini Legends sent us this email.
Hi Everyone
I’m the teacher of the Year 3 miniLegends in South Australia. We go to
Glenelg School which is in probably the most famous beach of Adelaide. I
see you are studying Australia – we brainstormed this morning about
different aspects you might like to research. My class were going to leave
some comments and suggestions – I don’t know if that happened. Probably
most of them just said “your blog is really cool” … because it is 🙂
Might I suggest using a couple of websites as springboards to your learning
Check out this excellent site by Jackie Miers
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/
and the equally wonderful one by Sue Lemmer
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/suel/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page – and don’t forget to search
Wikipedia
You’re the stars, may your wishes come true
Cheers, Al (sometimes they call me Mr Upton)
Our ’07 AllStars’ friends from Sydney gave us this advice
Hello Carronshore,
How exciting that you are studying Australia. Here are some ideas to get you started – we will have another think later and get back to you!
Settlement – who & when
Landmarks
Australian Aborigines
Aussie slang
Aussie animals
Celebrations
Can’t wait to see your Aboriginal Artworks.
We are studying “Identity” this year too.
What do you know about Australia already?
AllStars
We don’t know vey much yet ….. but all this advice is just great. We’ll be making a start in a couple of weeks and we’ll post regularly about all the things we learn!
Our Primary One Pupils Loved Our Easter Stories!
Thomas had the children’s full attention as he read them his Easter Bunny story ….. even Sean and Marc look engrossed!!
Sophie really enjoyed sharing her story – all eyes were on her as she told her tale!
Adam, Danni and Jamie had great fun involving the ‘wee ones’ actively as they became great ‘Story Tellers’.
After the story telling session, the Primary One pupils told us how much they had enjoyed the experience …. and the Primary Seven pupils really appreciated their great audience!!
Easter Bunny Stories!
Today we decided to write Easter Bunny tales for our Primary 1 pupils. We are going to visit them tomorrow and read them our stories. We hope they like them (we’ll let you know)!
Jeanan and lisa wrote one called King Bouncer.
Ryan and Sophie wrote a tale called The Easter Bunny.
Maybe you’ll enjoy them, too ….. let us know (and don’t forget to check out all our classmates’ Easter Bunny stories as well!).
Stars and Wishes
Today in class, we began to self assess our recent pieces of writing. We gave ourselves 2 stars………….2 good things about our writing
…… and 1 wish ………. something we thought we could improve.
Unfortunately, the computers began to ‘freeze’ and we had to give up! We’ll try again tomorrow ……… meanwhile, why don’t you visit Marc and Nicola’s blogs because they were lucky and managed to put on their posts before this began to happen.
Thank you to Lisa for suggesting we read our writing ‘through the eyes of a geovisitor’ ….. great idea! 🙂
Finding Time!
It’s been a while since we’ve used our PBwiki writing spaces, but today we managed to find the time to write on our pages.
Thomas wrote about his hobby on his personal writing page.
Jeanan wrote about a girl who was always up to mischief on her imaginative writing page
We didn’t have time to finish because we all went out for football.
It would be great if anyone could find the time to read anything on our writing spaces and give us an audience for our writing by leaving a comment!
Goodbye Miss Goodsir – and thank you!
We had a party this afternoon to say goodbye and thank you to Miss Goodsir. She has been in our class for over two months now and she taught us lots of new things. She’s going back to university for a few weeks and then she’ll qualify as a teacher. We think she’ll be a great teacher! We took more pictures at our party and we’re going to put them on our individual blogs tomorrow in a Bubbleshare slideshow.
Our WW2 Topic Update!
Next week we are going to visit Callendar House in Falkirk as part of our WW2 topic. We have access to our videos again, so we’ll try to put one on here to show a ‘snippet’ of what happens – we’ve heard it’s good fun!
We have also been asked to give a short individual talk on an aspect of WW2 that has been studied in class. We are going to put a comment on our individual blogs when we’ve decided on a talk. We’ll let you know when we’ve done this by leaving a ‘sticky note’.
You can check our progress by clicking here!
Video Problems!
Our ‘Google’ Videos have been blocked at school and I’m looking for alternative ways of showing them on our class blog. This method seems to work on our Photoaday blog, but it doesn’t look the same on here (and last time it wasn’t visible in school anyway!)
I wonder if others can view it?
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A Bit About The Brazilian Rainforest … and some other stuff!
We had a visitor in school yesterday and she told us lots of interesting things she had seen on her visits to the Brazilian Rainforest (press the little ‘go’ arrow on the left-hand side to start the presentation … no-one knows the age of the old lady in the slideshow … even the villagers had no idea. They do not ‘count’ ages ).
You can find out more by visiting Lisa’s Blog. Other people in the class have been up-dating their new blogs, too … check out Mark’s Blog for some more info on our interesting visitor yesterday.
In fact, why not check out all our new individual Blogs … please encourage us by leaving comments.
Thank you to David from East Lothian for helping us set up these Blogs – we’re really looking forward to making them interesting for our readers.
Educational Mobile Phones!!
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We looked at the lgshine phone and brainstormed educational uses! There were LOADS – so we were allowed to bring in our own phones, too! Maybe we will be able to use them in class soon!
lgshine phone and brainstormed all the educational uses we could think of. We were even allowed to bring in our own phones to examine as well! We found loads of great tools that we’d love to be allowed to use in class. We made these posters to show some of our findings.
Mrs V got the idea from this blog.
Lunar Eclipse
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Even More Poetry Winners!
Two of our nursery pupils were not available when the ‘winners’ photo was taken. We’ve added them here – don’t they look proud?!
Carronshore Won!!…. and thanks to our special visitor!
Here are all the poetry ‘Stars’! Well done to them all! Well done, too, to all the pupils from Carron Primary ……. it was a very close contest. Our trophy will look great in the entrance hall this year. We are all feeling very proud!!
John came in to school this morning and gave us some great ‘hints and tips’ for taking and editing our photographs. He even took the time to take some pictures of our poetry winners with his professional camera. We’ll put some on here when we get them. He was very helpful and taught us a lot of really cool stuff …… he’s going to come back again in a few weeks to give us even more advice – thank you John (Mrs Summers’ son).
Lg Shine – A Podcast
Lisa interviewed Danni and Jeanan to find out their views on the new lg shine phone (the ‘podcast’ icon doesn’t work, so please click on the text instead).
Check back soon to view our persuasive posters ….. can we persuade you that the lg phone is worth having?
Click the link below to listen to the podcast.
shine-podcast.mp3
Scottish Poetry Competition
Our Scottish Poetry Competition is on Wednesday evening! Some of the pupils in Primary 7 have been chosen to represent Carronshore. Please watch our videos and tell us what you think!
Please be patient while it loads ….. and if it ‘sticks’ a bit, just push the wee arrow back to let it ‘catch up’! (poem number 3 will be added shortly)
Not sure how to leave a comment? Just leave us a sticky note! Press here
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Sploder Games!
Well done to Stuart and Liam from primary 7S for managing to make a great game for us all to enjoy on Sploder. You can have a go, too! Just follow this link here
LG Photos!
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We used our new lg shine camera today to take some pictures around the school ….. check them out – they’re great – and we don’t even know very much about taking photos!
Next week John is coming in to school to talk to us about taking pictures for our new Photo a Day for Schools project. We’re going to show him our new camera phone!
Some First Impressions! Girls and Boys!
LG SHINE – initial thoughts
Nicola said,
’21/2/07
Hello, yesterday we all saw the new phone called lg shine. The first impression I thought of was it was so shiny.
Its scroll is really cool because I don’t think there is another phone with a scroll like that. Its ringtones are really cool because you can get a whole load of new ones. It has groovy wallpaper that you can get to make the phone even cooler. I hope I can get that phone.’
Thomas said :
The LG Shine is a good phone and it is very good looking. It is the next best phone after the Chocolate and it has a built in MP3 player. It has a camera, it does videos and much, much more. So get your self an LG Shine today and experience its greatfulness. When the screen is off it is like a mirror which is good for girls putting on make up or something.
Building Our Anderson Shelters
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A Very Exciting Week!
We’ve had a VERY exciting, ‘action – packed’ week at school!
On Tuesday, we interviewed Councillor Martin and found out all about how he helps Carronshore. We recorded the interview on our mp3 player and will put it on here soon.
On Friday, we interviewed Mary Devine, Falkirk Council’s Curriculum Support Manager. She is very nice and we made this video.
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On Friday, we also went out on our weekly walk. We took some pictures for our ‘Photo A Day For Schools’ project. It’s a very exciting project where lots of schools from all over the world take pictures each day of a certain aspect of school life. This was the first week of the project and the theme was ‘in between lessons’. We took pictures each day and uploaded them on to our new flickr page. (click on the red words to take you there)
This is is on our weekly walk. We chose this picture for the project. you can read all about it on the Photo A Day Blog which has taken the place of our School News Blog …… there was not enough time to do both! The Primary 7 pupils are running the photo a day blog themselves. Please pay them a visit and leave some comments on their photos. You can get there by clicking on the Photo A Day page above.
Our World War 2 Topic
We are learning about what life was like during World War 2. We are going to make Anderson Shelters. Miss Goodsir and Mrs Vass asked us to choose our equipment and we will make them next week. Miss Goodsir has been saving up ‘junk’ material for us to use!
We tried to find an Anderson Shelter near our school, but there doesn’t seem to be any. If anyone knows of one locally, it would be great if you could leave a comment!
Friday Catch Up!
It has been absolutely beautiful weather here today! Mrs Vass, Miss Goodsir and Mrs Underhill decided that we should all go for a walk before lunch. It was so enjoyable that we are going to try to do this every Friday. We were all ready for lunch when we returned!
