Our Book Club

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Most of the children in our class like to read, and so the people who do, formed a book club. We meet every Tuesday from 11:00am to 11:30am. We swap books and then the next week we tell the people about our likes and dislikes on that book.We have split the book club into two groups but sometimes we meet up as one.We usually read a paragraph of our favourite bits.You can take as many books as you want but you have got to keep track of who has your books. Then we ask anyone who wants our books and swap. Our clubs are called the Book Worms and in each club there is a Captain Worm. Jaydean is the captain of our club and Monica is the captain of the other.

This week we were all together and took pictures of our books and said our favourite parts then made them into a movie.You can see this on the blog. Soon we might start to fundraise so we can go shopping and buy books that the people in the club would like to read. If you borrow a book you have to put a sticky on it to say who it is. We have to get a variety of books because there are boys as well. Not just girly books . Not only we are just a book club but we write large stories. Maryam is the first to try this out and her story is fabulous.Here is a link to her wiki where you can read it.

Here is a video of some of us describing our favourite book, or reading an extract from it.

Bethany & Nina

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Darcie's Wish :)

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Darcie has been writing some great posts – you can click on her ‘weemee’ to take you to her blog

She wrote:

I keep having these moment where i want to write something but go to write and can’t think of anything! Some days i have good ideas and make long posts but others i am siting staring at the screen thinking of what to write. At first i thought great a blog, somewhere to put my thoughts and feelings and i had millions of things i thought about putting on but know i am stuck on what to write about lol! But like don’t get me wrong i love writing as you can maybe see but i just have these days where nothing comes to my head . Well i suppose this is an idea for a post! Haha!!!!!!

Then she wrote:

“Have you ever wished you could do something or be someone? Well i have and i would like to share it. When i was young i always wished that i was famous but now i realise that they are just normal people but just have more money, as they have been very successful.

But now my mind has changed as i am older. I wish that i could fly and be invisible. I know it sounds weird but if you think about it’s quite cool . Anyway i think it would be great to be invisible and be able to fly as you could go ANYWHERE (and i mean anywhere) in the world!

If you could, comment back and say what you wish you could do or someone you wish to be!”

What a great post … and thank you Darcie for inspiring me to write a post, too.

Click on the weemee below to take you there 🙂

I wonder if any other P7V’s have been struggling with what to write? Maybe Darcie is right … just go for it 🙂

Science, Engineering and Technology Fair

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Around 2000 Primary 7 children from all the Falkirk schools are taking part in this exciting event. It was our turn to go along on Friday this week.

The SET fair is supported by INEOS and is part of the My Future’s in Falkirk initiative. It was a very busy day:

Build a Bug Workshop

We became an electronic engineer for the day when we made our fully electronic Jitterbugs.

Wood Technology Workshop

Here we made our own kites

‘Who wants to be a Scientist?’ Workshop

Here we learned about the many exciting careers that can develop from taking science subjects in High School

K’Nex design challenge

Problem solving and team work were at the forefront of this activity. We were challenged to use the K’Nex kits to design and construct a distillation tower. We had to stick to the strict guidelines … and teachers were not allowed to help!

We captured some of the moments in this video:

February 'Voices of the World' Task

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Our February task for Voices of the World was to present the numbers 1 – 10 in our own language. We were also introduced to Photostory3 and managed to get it downloaded to one of our networked computers this week.

We had great fun with this task! We worked in small groups to come up with our number representations .. thank you AllStars for the idea 🙂

The groups had to come up with an ‘audio idea’ to accompany the visual representation of the numbers, and then we voted for the best one. Darren’s group had the most popular rap …. what do you think?

Googlevideo is sometimes not available in our schools, so we’ve made an alternative ……luckily our video is very short – so using photobucket was ok this time 🙂

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Primary 7V ARE Photographers!

March 5, 2008 User deactivated 2 Comments

The children of Primary 7V were let loose this week with our new Canon 350D digital camera. Their task was to photograph ‘the coolest things in school’. This is the focus of our new Photo-a-day challenge.

We used Photostory 3 to help make this video. Thank you Mrs Tonner from our Voices of the World project for introducing us to this great resource:)

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Wonderful Wiki Writing!

March 4, 2008 User deactivated 2 Comments

Miss Law asked Primary 7V to choose what they wanted to write about this week ……. and they came up with some great ideas!

Some P7’s decided that they wanted to share their writing on their wikis today. We didn’t have much time in the computer suite, but a small snippet of their writing is included below.

Click on their ‘weemees’ to be transported to their PBwiki spaces 🙂

Chloe is writing a playscript called ‘Mystery Book’. She’d love to see the finished script acted out!

Rebecca’s story is called ‘The Tunnel’. If you like a good mystery story, this one is for you 🙂

Nina’s writing piece entitled ‘Yesterday’ – brilliant title and great introduction!

Maryam’s ‘Evil Teacher’ epic ….. I’ve heard the whole thing – it’s scary!!

Bethany’s ‘Daisy in Candyland’ promises to be a great read 🙂

Some More Great P7V Blog Posts!

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Primary 7V have some great posts recently! For example, Anna posted:

I have decided to do a thing weekly called ‘quote of the day’! I will find some inspirational quotes from celebs or someone i know and post them.What do you think? Anyway here is my first one

‘Somewhere along the line i made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark side all the time.Now i look at everything i have and think how lucky i am’-Michelle Pfeiffer

And there’s more from Anna 🙂

Here is another really inspiring quote…

‘All your dreams come true,If you have the courage to pursue them’ -Walt Disney

You can visit Anna’s blog by clicking on her weemee

Ainsley has been blogging about her love of drawing…

“I just love to draw pictures , it’s really fun. I am quite good at drawing. Last night i drew Eyore , i tried to draw Winnie the pooh and piglet but that didn’t work out , i drew pluto , donald duck and daffy duck. I stuck some of my pictures on the wall in my bed room but i couldn’t put all of them up because i ran out of blue tack.”

You can visit Ainsley’s blog, too – just click on her weemee!

Hobbies!

March 1, 2008 User deactivated 5 Comments

Some of Primary 7V have been blogging about their hobbies. You can read their posts here. You can also click on their ‘Weemee’s’ to visit their individual blogs.

Bethany has been writing about her interest in drawing.

“Miss law is the student that is in our class at the moment and she is really cool! She has great ideas for work and likes to draw. We started up a drawing club when she came as she is such a brilliant drawer and we want her to help us and give us some tips! Its quite fun and sometimes people come out with some pretty good pieces of art work!”

She’s also considering taking up photography after our visit from John. She wrote:

“……even just having photography as a hobbie would be good, taking pictures of anything. I think that being a photographer would be quite expensive though so i dont know how much I would be willing to pay just for a hobbie!”

FraserM wrote a great post about his hobbies. He wrote:

“I have quite a lot of hobbies but my two favourite are probably guitar and football. Football is my favourite hobby. I play football at the park with my friends and I also play with a football team called Gairdoch United. I play defense and I don’t score many goals. I used to play up front and then midfield but now I play defense.

My other hobby is guitar. I’ve been playing for about five years. I play the guitar below.

Its a black statacaster. I got it last year for my birthday from my Uncle Andy, Auntie Fiona, and my two cousins Kirsten and Kieran.”

Rhiann loves to perform on the stage. She wrote:

“At the Falkirk childrens theatre that i’m in. We are doing Treasure Island. I auditioned for one of the principal parts but I got in the chorus instead. Oh well it doesn’t really matter if i’m not a principal. I could maybe try another time. Anyway i’m a sailor in the chorus which should be quite good because there is pirates as well as sailors in the chorus. I would rather be a sailor anyway because they are cleaner than pirates and i would say they are easier to play as a part. So i can’t wait to see the costumes and to do the show in April, it’s going to be great. In May there is a Big in Falkirk show they do every year so i’m going to be going to audition that and hope i get into it. I don’t know what show they are doing for it be it should be good. At christmas we are doing Oliver which is a really gd film so i can’t wait to audition for that either. All the shows that they are doing this year sound really gd and i hope i get a main part as one of them. lol I think The Falkirk childrens theatre is a gd theatre to go to. “

Sophie just loves Art. Everyone in class is always amazed by her wonderful pictures! She wrote:

“My hobbie is art. In art there are lots of different things to do such as drawing cutting sticking colouring and more.

The benefit of my hobbie is that I can hang my art work on the wall and make my house look nice. The person involved with my art work is my art teacher. You need equipment for art for example paint brushes, paper, scissors, glue and more. The best feature about art is the way in which you can express your feelings in a creative way. You could also sell your paintings for money.

I would recommend my hobby to others because no matter what skill level you are, you can make something fabulous and feel a real sense of acheivement!!”

We’d love to know what others do in their spare time. Leave a comment and let us know!

Transported Back in Time!

February 24, 2008 User deactivated 4 Comments

Primary 7V were transported back to 1941 when we visited Callendar House this week. We were divided into 2 groups. One group was evacuated, the other group examined real artifacts from WW2. We changed places so that we could experience both activities.

We learned such a lot, and we’d like to say a big thank you to the three ladies who made our visit so worthwhile.

One group was evacuated … it was quite an experience. The three videos below capture the tense atmosphere!

First of all we had to register and collect our Ration Books and Identity Cards.

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Next, we had to listen carefully as we were issued with our Gas Mask instructions.

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Finally, we arrived at our destination.

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Meanwhile, the other group examined artifacts from World War 2. This group had to wear gloves to help preserve the items. Everyone gave a short presentation about what they had discovered. The animoto video below captures some of the moments.

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Darcie has been writing some great posts – you can click on her ‘weemee’ to take you to her blog

She wrote:

Then she wrote:

What a great post … and thank you Darcie for inspiring me to write a post, too.

Click on the weemee below to take you there 🙂

I wonder if any other P7V’s have been struggling with what to write? Maybe Darcie is right … just go for it 🙂

Around 2000 Primary 7 children from all the Falkirk schools are taking part in this exciting event. It was our turn to go along on Friday this week.

The SET fair is supported by INEOS and is part of the My Future’s in Falkirk initiative. It was a very busy day:

Build a Bug Workshop

We became an electronic engineer for the day when we made our fully electronic Jitterbugs.

Wood Technology Workshop

Here we made our own kites

‘Who wants to be a Scientist?’ Workshop

Here we learned about the many exciting careers that can develop from taking science subjects in High School

K’Nex design challenge

Problem solving and team work were at the forefront of this activity. We were challenged to use the K’Nex kits to design and construct a distillation tower. We had to stick to the strict guidelines … and teachers were not allowed to help!

We captured some of the moments in this video:

Our February task for Voices of the World was to present the numbers 1 – 10 in our own language. We were also introduced to Photostory3 and managed to get it downloaded to one of our networked computers this week.

We had great fun with this task! We worked in small groups to come up with our number representations .. thank you AllStars for the idea 🙂

The groups had to come up with an ‘audio idea’ to accompany the visual representation of the numbers, and then we voted for the best one. Darren’s group had the most popular rap …. what do you think?

Googlevideo is sometimes not available in our schools, so we’ve made an alternative ……luckily our video is very short – so using photobucket was ok this time 🙂

The children of Primary 7V were let loose this week with our new Canon 350D digital camera. Their task was to photograph ‘the coolest things in school’. This is the focus of our new Photo-a-day challenge.

We used Photostory 3 to help make this video. Thank you Mrs Tonner from our Voices of the World project for introducing us to this great resource:)

Miss Law asked Primary 7V to choose what they wanted to write about this week ……. and they came up with some great ideas!

Some P7’s decided that they wanted to share their writing on their wikis today. We didn’t have much time in the computer suite, but a small snippet of their writing is included below.

Click on their ‘weemees’ to be transported to their PBwiki spaces 🙂

Chloe is writing a playscript called ‘Mystery Book’. She’d love to see the finished script acted out!

Rebecca’s story is called ‘The Tunnel’. If you like a good mystery story, this one is for you 🙂

Nina’s writing piece entitled ‘Yesterday’ – brilliant title and great introduction!

Maryam’s ‘Evil Teacher’ epic ….. I’ve heard the whole thing – it’s scary!!

Bethany’s ‘Daisy in Candyland’ promises to be a great read 🙂

Primary 7V have some great posts recently! For example, Anna posted:

And there’s more from Anna 🙂

You can visit Anna’s blog by clicking on her weemee

Ainsley has been blogging about her love of drawing…

You can visit Ainsley’s blog, too – just click on her weemee!

Some of Primary 7V have been blogging about their hobbies. You can read their posts here. You can also click on their ‘Weemee’s’ to visit their individual blogs.

Bethany has been writing about her interest in drawing.

She’s also considering taking up photography after our visit from John. She wrote:

FraserM wrote a great post about his hobbies. He wrote:

Rhiann loves to perform on the stage. She wrote:

Sophie just loves Art. Everyone in class is always amazed by her wonderful pictures! She wrote:

We’d love to know what others do in their spare time. Leave a comment and let us know!

Primary 7V were transported back to 1941 when we visited Callendar House this week. We were divided into 2 groups. One group was evacuated, the other group examined real artifacts from WW2. We changed places so that we could experience both activities.

We learned such a lot, and we’d like to say a big thank you to the three ladies who made our visit so worthwhile.

One group was evacuated … it was quite an experience. The three videos below capture the tense atmosphere!

First of all we had to register and collect our Ration Books and Identity Cards.

Next, we had to listen carefully as we were issued with our Gas Mask instructions.

Finally, we arrived at our destination.

Meanwhile, the other group examined artifacts from World War 2. This group had to wear gloves to help preserve the items. Everyone gave a short presentation about what they had discovered. The animoto video below captures some of the moments.

Facts we learned about becoming a writer – by Anna, Nina and Monica (photograph by Russell).

Proof Readers check your work, but they don’t read the book from ‘cover to cover’ in case they get too caught up in the story and miss any mistakes. So they start from the back of the book instead

It’s much easier to write a book now that we have computers. Before that, the writer used a typewriter and printed off the story and the printer had to re-type everything

You need to find somebody to publish your book

There are different ways of binding a book. Mr White’s newest book has the most expensive method. Cheaper, older methods can mean that the book falls apart easily

It takes about a year to write a book but the book Mr White is writing this year may only take a few months as it as not as long as his others

He has written loads of books and has a previous one coming out.This one will be about a mystery story and it sounds quite good.It is set in Grangemouth,Falkirk and is a story about a murder

He also in his spare time writes for The Times. He has wrote a set of books all about Falkirk Football Club throughout the ages. His set of books started of with Volume 1 and is still writing the other sequels

His two books the 50th anniversary and the Big book of lists are both ringbinders.You can see them on our class blog!(the post down below)

We would like to thank Mr White for coming and telling us about his book.It was an interesting talk and we learned loads.

Mr White came to talk to us today about his job as a writer. His books are about the history of Falkirk Football Club Players …… ‘The Brockville Bairns’!

It’s really exciting, because he left us 3 signed copies of his latest book. We’re going to have a competition to determine the lucky winners!!

He also left copies of 2 earlier books written by him – all the books he left for us are pictured below.

He took the time to sign the books for us 🙂

The books tell the story of Falkirk Football Club.

Nina, Anna and Monica are going to write a post about what they learned today.

It will appear on here soon 😀

Yesterday, John told us about a photograph he was glad to have taken. He explained how he happened to be in a position to be able to capture the moment.

Isn’t it great!!!!

P7V are on holiday today … but the teachers have to work 🙁

…… It wasn’t ALL bad, though, because John’s mum is a teacher in our school and she told me that he has his own website where more of his pictures are displayed. You can visit it HERE.

John has offered to come back and give us some more tips on how to take a good photograph. Meanwhile, you can look out for some of the pictures taken by P7V yesterday when we went outside to experiment with our new fancy camera!

We’ll post some on our Photo-a-Day blog soon 😀

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John came to school to talk to us about photography. Last session’s primary 7 class met John when he helped us with our Photo-a-Day project.

This year’s P7’s are going to re-start this project – and we’re in the process of electing photographers, writers and editors.

Some P7’s have been blogging about John’s visit. Anna wrote:

Courtney also put on a blog post. She wrote:

‘Hi today we had John in. he was talking about Photos as he is a photographer – he was nice and i was really interested as i Kinda want t be one when i’m older. I have learned sooo much …..’

He gave is a copy of a photograph he’s particularly proud of … we’ll post it tomorrow – it’s super!!