Archive for January, 2007
Creepy Crawlies
Lesson 15 - 31/01/2007
We made ourselves magicians today! We designed our own small beasties or animals and cut them out of card before taping a small paperclip underneath. We could then put our cut-outs on another piece of card with a magnet underneath. By moving the magnet our creepy crawlie moved on its own - [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2007 under school.
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Making Our Own Magnets
Lesson 14 - 30/01/2007
We made our own magnets today out of paper clips. Firstly we had to straighten out the paper clip and blue tac it down onto our desk. Then we had to move a magnet through the air close to the paper clip taking care always to move the magnet in the same [...]
Posted: January 30th, 2007 under school.
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Can Sorter
Lesson 13 - 29/01/2007
We started learning about magnets today and lots of us had brought some in to help with our experiments. Firstly we learned that magnets have different ends. These are called poles - one is North and the other is South. We could feel a strong force between two magnets when we brought [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2007 under school.
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Address To A Haggis
The nursery have been celebrating Burns Day
Yum Haggis
Hmmm Haggis……..
Posted: January 29th, 2007 under school.
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Forces - Review
Lesson 12 - 26/01/2007
No experiments today - boo! Because we were half way through our Forces project Mr Cain decided to have a review of what we had covered so far. We all went over our personal learning plans to make sure we had understood what we were supposed to have learned. Then we had [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2007 under school.
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Snailie, Snailie on the wall…
A lovely little Scots poem for Burns Night! Just click where it says Audio MP3 to listen:
Poem
Photo by whiskymac.
Posted: January 25th, 2007 under Enterprise, school.
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New school Choir
Miss MacDonald has started an after school choir for P4-P7 and I strongly recommend it as I have been to it. Please bring in a form and at least try it out.
Signed Matthew weekly blog diary assistant
Posted: January 25th, 2007 under school.
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Making Puppets
P7 have been making Japenese Puppets for 2 weeks now and the shape of them are really taking place. On the first week of the puppets we started off with a balloon. We added paper mache to the balloon and after that we kept on putting it on top of the balloon until was [...]
Posted: January 25th, 2007 under school.
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Rabbie Burns Assembly
Today the whole school including the nursery have been at the Rabbie Burns Assembly, every class contributed to the wonderful time we had there. There was dancing, singing, poetry, Scots word and more!
Of course this was all in favour of our national poet, Robert Burns.
Signed Matthew blog diary assistant
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Posted: January 25th, 2007 under school.
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Deep Sea Diver 2
Lesson 11 - 24/01/07
Following on from where we left off yesterday, we finished our divers by adding a small amount of blu-tack to their feet, so that they just floated in a bucket of water. If we added too much they sank to the bottom.
Then came the fun part! We filled up 2 litre drinks [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2007 under school.
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Information Literacy
We are researching a famous person in Scottish history.We looked in books to find someone. We made a mind map to plan our ideas. Eilidh
Examples of our plans
research plan p5
Posted: January 24th, 2007 under school.
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Deep Sea Diver 1
Lesson 10 - 23/1/2007
Over the next two lessons we are going to see how changing something’s density makes it float or sink. We are going to do this by making a deep sea diver!
Today we made the diver by cutting a shape out of bacofoil tins. His oxygen tank was made from a bendy straw [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2007 under school.
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Floating and Sinking
Lesson 9 - 22/01/07
In this lesson we got to splash about. We had brought items from home, some we thought would float and some we thought would sink. In our groups we talked about all the items we had brought in and made our predictions - which would float and which would sink. Then came the [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2007 under school.
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Back to School
[ February 15, 2007; 8:50 am; ]
Posted: January 22nd, 2007 under school.
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In service Day 4
[ February 14, 2007; ]
Posted: January 22nd, 2007 under school.
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Staff and pupil break
[ February 9, 2007; 12:30 pm; ]
Posted: January 22nd, 2007 under school.
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School Board Meeting
[ February 8, 2007; 7:00 pm; ]
Posted: January 22nd, 2007 under school.
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P2 Basic Moves After School Club
[ January 25, 2007; 3:05 pm to 4:00 pm. ]
Posted: January 22nd, 2007 under school.
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Bouncy Investigation
Lesson 8 - 19/1/2007
Following the investigation Mr Cain showed us the other day on stretching, today we were able to devise our own investigation into bouncing. We had brought in a selection of different balls and the aim of our investigation was to place them in order of ‘bouncyness’. In our teams we worked out [...]
Posted: January 19th, 2007 under school.
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Movement Book 2
Lesson 7 - 17/1/2007
We’ve been outside today! We braved the cold weather to go out into the school grounds to see if we could find anything that would stretch, swing or bounce. As Mr Cain told us “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing!”. We found some good examples and when we got back [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2007 under school.
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