Author: Miss O'Neill

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We have been learning about the life and works of Robert Burns. Some of the facts we discovered are that Robert Burns was the oldest out of his 6 brothers and sisters. He was married to Jean Armour and he had 12 children. We also found out that Burns died on 21st July 1796, he died when he was only 37. On the day of his funeral his 12th child was born. We have also learned the poem Bonnie Jean, Robert Burns wrote this when he met Jean. We learned about figurative language which is when a story writer or poet writes something but they dont fully explain it. We also had to transalate a full verse of scots from Bonnie Jean into english.

In maths we are learning about finance with Miss Gillaspie. We learned how to use an ATM (automated teller machine). ATMs are used to get money and see your account ballence.

P7 Shared Homework Jan2015

In primary 7 have had a busy week back! We were all very tired at the time, but we are still trying our best to learn as much as possible. We’ve planned Scottish afternoon and are finding out what part we have got and are trying to learn our lines of by heart. We have enjoyed listening to people practising their accents. We also liked that Miss O’Neill has put a bit of comedy into our Scottish afternoon and we will have a laugh performing it!!!!!

We have also be learning about the historical Jacobites and this is the focus for our personal projects this month.

This week we were recount writing about our amazing Christmas holiday.  We had to write about our three favourite highlights of the break.  At first we had to do an introduction to tell the reader what it was we were talking about.  At the end we wrote our conclusion to summarise what happened.

This week  Miss Gillespie came back.  Miss Gillespie is staying in our class until the Easter break, we had her before the Christmas holidays but she just came back on Wednesday!

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In class we have been doing science experiments. Our topic is natural disasters so we have been learning about volcanoes. We did the experiment on how to erupt our own volcanoes. We used a plastic bottle with no water in it, scrap paper, plasticene, glitter, 250ml of vinegar, a funnel and 3 tablespoons of baking powder. All of the class got to put in the vinegar and baking powder. We started by covering the plastic bottle with scrap paper and then covered with plasticene. We added glitter to make it look like lava flowing out and then we put in the vinegar and baking powder. Miss O’Neil took videos of the volcanoes exploding. We really enjoyed this experiment and hope to do it again.

For science we planted daffodils and crocus bulbs we did this for an experiment by the Edina trust and was  also done in school’s from Scotland England and Wales. The experiment was to find out if global warming is effecting our seasons.

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We filled our pots half way up with soil and put our daffodils in them. We filled it up more and put our crocus bulbs in. We now measure the rainfall and temperature and send it off to the Edina trust.

Last week we were having an art week. Primary 7 were focusing on an artist called Louis Comfort Tiffany. We learned that he invented a glass called ‘Favril’, it is a type of glass that whatever way you look at it, it is a different colour. We made some our selves with tissue paper it was really fun.

We have been learning about volcanoes for our topic. We watched some videos to learn more about them. We learned that you can get different types of volcanoes. Some of them are active, dormant and extinct. We were put into four stations and we had different tasks, and we will share our learning next week. The things we had to do were make a power point on the ring of fine and tectonic plates,  make a poster and search for facts.