Primary 5 L/W Class Blog

Some of the Primary 7 pupils are spending long weekend at Ardeonaig.

Marc has put a couple of posts on his individual blog to let us know how things are going. You can see his posts on his blog - just click on the link

Marc’s Blog

Well done Marc …. where are the pictures? :))

 Elizabeth visited our school. Her mum works here.

We are learning about life in Australia. You can visit our wiki individual pages here. We’ll put all the ideas in our group pages soon.

 Two short videos. We interviewed Neil, then he played his digiridoo for us.

It was great -thank you, Neil!!

Today we all said farewell to Kayleigh. This is her last week at school …

she’s off to Australia next week! We’ll really miss her, but it’s fantastic

that she can keep in touch by posting her adventures on her individual

blog. She’s already made friends over there because we are in touch

with the  AllStars

Check out the comments

she’s been receiving! She’s going to a different part of Australia (they’re in Sydney, she’s off to Perth), but maybe they’ll meet up sometime - who knows!

Mrs V made some Anzac biscuits and even some Lamington cakes.

We found the recipes for  them here   …. They were yummy!!

Anzac Biscuits

Traditional biscuits baked by anxious wives and mothers during World War I, packed in food parcels, and sent to the Australian soldiers in the trenches.

INGREDIENTS
1 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup desiccated coconut
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar
125g (4oz) butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda, 1 tablespoon water

Preheat oven to 300F (150C)

Mix oats, flour, sugar and coconut together.
Melt syrup and butter together.
Mix soda with boiling water and add to melted butter and syrup.
Add to dry ingredients.
Place 1 tablespoonfuls of mixture on greased tray (allow room for spreading).
Bake for 20 minutes.
Loosen while warm, cool on trays.
(makes about 35)

Earlier in the day, Neil (Mrs Green’s son) came to school and played the Digiridoo for us …. the videos are uploading now and will be on here soon!

Miss Burton brought in her digiridoo to show us because we’re learning about Australia. James and Rachael are holding it. It looks (and sounds) super! Ryan and Sophie interviewed her to find out more. You can listen to the podcast below.

 Please click on the name below ….. and it will take you to another window. Press the little arrow to begin the podcast.

Ms Burton

Recently we’ve found ourselves mentioned in some very influential blogs!

David Gilmour from East Lothian Council had this to say on his blog.

We’d like to thank him for his great support - he helped us set up our individual blogs and he’s always there to help when we need it (we’ll need to email him again, though …. but this time it’s to tell him that we’re Carronshore Primary and not Carronvale Primary !)

We’ve also had a mention on Ewan McIntosh’s blog. He’s always got great ideas about  new ‘blogging tools’ like bubbleshare and pbwikis. Mrs V has learned loads from reading his blog regularly  ….. but we’ll need to email him too, to tell him that the competition winners were chosen before the individual blogs were set up

The ‘judges’ came to our school and spoke to the pupils about our class blog and our wikis. A few weeks later, we received an email to say we’d won a prize - but we didn’t know what it was until the  ICT fair!

Here we are with our prize - all looking very proud!