Macmerry p6/7

We have just acquired two new seats that will help us to enjoy looking at our Marsh Garden.

We enjoyed learning to climb at North Berwick Law.

We went to Levenhall and enjoyed an afternoon canoeing, sailing and kayaking.

We had great fun learning a dance routine with Carlos. It took us four weekly sessions to produce this dance.

YDance at Macmerry

Our classroom has turned into a museum about World War II. We have acquired ration books,
identity cards, bullets from aircrafts used during the war, photographs of relatives in uniform, a letter describing memories of the war from Aimee’s grandmother, newspapers celebrating the 50th anniversary of VE Day, a certificate given to every school child at the end of the war that states important dates during the war and asks the children to learn from the mistakes made and enjoy their new freedom, a model of a burnt building made by Cameron and his dad , a model of a rifle and a “safe” hand grenade!

We found this website very useful:
 http://holnet.org.uk/new/
Go to “History” and then “London at War 1939-1945.”

We paid 50p to play a game with a friend and 5p to buy a quiz about friendship from Ryan and Craig. We also made friendship bands and the whole school and several parents danced in the hall. All of the classes produced recipes for friendship. Our class made an acrostic. The money was sent to Save the Children. We collected £80.

Four of us attended the above event last Wednesday and were challenged to “Make a Difference.” We already have the Eco School Green Flag Award and our next step is to make a Sensory Garden. Cara had a good idea while making a vox pox. She thought that we could start a campaign to raise money for mature trees to block out the new Wimpey houses that have spoiled our view from the Marsh Garden area of our school. Don Ledingham visited our class last Thursday just as we were showing our peers the start of the podcast that we hope to produce in the next four weeks. He also presented eleven children with certificates for completing their Extreme Learning Projects.

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5.6.07

We attended the ICT/Enterprise Event today in Haddington and were awarded an oscar for Looking After the Environment. Don Ledingham presented certificates to Cara, Robyn and Murray. We had a problem yesterday as we could not remember where we had saved our vox pox so we were unable to add it to our film! We made an alternative vox pox yesterday afternoon but were disappointed to lose our prepared vox pox. At nine this morning we finally found our missing vox pox and saved it on to a memory stick hoping that we could attach our external hard drive to a power source and create a podcast before we were required to show our work. Karen Robertson and Elizabeth Cowan came to our aid and we produced the podcast underneath. We have learned a lesson the hard way. Make sure that you know where on the server you have saved work! We had great fun creating the podcast and will continue to update/add to it. All the others in our class have learned how to make a podcast and the children who attend the Computer Club are also making podcasts! The top podcast was our final version. We decided that we had added too many sound effects to the first podcast.