Primary 7v Class Blog

 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!

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!!

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!).

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!

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!

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.

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!

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?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.mux.am/D8B6E96F011166345BD2114801E12F6D.mp4

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.

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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.