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the final week of john muir

Miss Russell — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:39:13 +0000

hiya am eirinn and am cerys we are going to tell you about the final week about john muir.Heres cerys heey am cerys well we have been doing john muir for a long time and have too end it this week sometime.We have learned loads about the nature and his inventer things he made like the chair and all that stuff ..we drew the trees he knew about and that ..back too eirinn …. heey its eirinn well as you know its time for the p5s to start packing for p6 so we will have to stop doing john muir we have done lots of things for john we have had lots of vists from the ranger we have went to the john muir birth place and made a timeline of his life out in our area

Thank you for reading cerys and eirinn

Hedgerow Trip

Miss Russell — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:36:31 +0000

Yesterday our class went on a trip.It was a hedgerow trip. We had a ranger called Roger. He did one really interesting thing. He got a big white mat and laid it on the ground under a sticking out branch and the branch was an oak branch. He told us oak trees are the most popular for bugs to live in so he shook the branch and a shield bug fell on to the mat and lots of little flies. Well thats it for now.

Bye bye

By Becky and Elle xxx

Ranger talk!

Miss Russell — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:40:53 +0000

On Monday the 13th we had a visitor called Roger the ranger. He brought stuffed animals with him but they didn’t killl them himself , they were found dead . They stuffed the animals and they have a metal skeloton and replaced the eyes because they rot away so they were glass eyes. There was a shrew,fox,red squirrel,grey squirrel,badger,otter,rabbit,weasel and stoat. It was really interesting.

.By Alistair Maclachlan and Tyler Berg

Trip to John Muir’s Birthplace

Miss Russell — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:22:49 +0000

On Tuesday p5RB went to Dunbar to see John Muir’s Birthplace and it was good fun for all the class. We got to see a statue of John Muir dressed up in a suit. There were different activities in the the birthplace, you got put into groups of 3′s. Up the stairs you learned about John’s life. On the second floor there was a window to the house next door where he and his sisters lived and played schoochers on top of the roof. On the bottom floor there was a chair that made a gun noise and a bit about his family. There was also more about John at school when he was getting the belt at school and from his mother and father . Some people got set a challenge to find out a bit about Johns life. I had to find out how old he was when he went to America. I found out he was 10 years old, he had his 11th birthday on the boat.

Connor and Alex

JOHN MUIR TRIP

Miss Russell — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:14:21 +0000

WE’RE GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT WE DID AT JOHN MUIR’S BIRTH PLACE . WE GOT THE BUS AT 10 PAST 9 AND WE ARRIVED AT 9;40 WHEN WE WALKED TO THE BIRTHPLACE WE HAD TO TO SIT IN A ROOM AND PERSON CALLED DAVID SAID WHAT WE HAD TO DO THEN WE GOT SPLIT UP INTO 3 GROUPS. THEN THE 1ST GROUP WENT TO THE TOP FLOOR , 2ND GROUP WENT TO THE MIDDLE FLOOR AND THE 3RD GROUP WENT TO THE BOTTOM FLOOR. WE CHANGED FLOORS EVRY 20 MINS . AT 11;30 WE WENT TO HAVE OUR SNACK THEN WE DID A MIND MAP ABOUT WHAT WE HAD LEARNED UNTIL 12;00 O’ CLOCK , THEN WE WENT TO THE BUS AND IT WAS LUNCH TIME WHEN WE GOT INTO SCHOOL.

KEITH AND TAYLOR

John Muir Trip

Miss Russell — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:54:01 +0000

I think the trip was really fun because I did everything Pauline and David asked us to do. They told us all about John Muir. I drew a picture of a stone and I also watched a tv programme about him. We moved to different stations up and down the museum. I saw where John’s second home was through the window to next door.

Robbie Downie

John Muir Journal Award Day 2

Miss Russell — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:27:10 +0000

Yesterday afternoon our yeargroup got set a challenge to make a John Muir time line.We were put into groups of twos and threes and got a piece of paper that had a date and what he did that year. Me and Taylor got the part in 1895 when John Muir travels to Europe and visits Dunbar where he got brought up. You could only use pencil, paint ,charcoal or crayons and it could only be in black and white. You got a panel for your drawing and you got a border for the date and what he was did.It was decorated with nature and little details of John Muir’s life.

You can see our timeline in the P5 area. We think it looks great.

John Muir Journal Day 1

Miss Russell — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:32:24 +0000

We are going to tell you about our new topic.

Our new topic is about John Muir and we are going to tell you about what p5P and p5RB have been doing this week.

We have been out and about in the playground planting a hedgerow for the insects, birds and small animals to keep away from the birds of prey. Abby will now tell you what everyone was up to on Tuesday.

On Tuesday the two classes went out to the p7 area so we could plant the hedgrow .We had to measure where we had to put the plant and then we got a shovel to dig out the grass. Some people had to wear gloves because they had a holly bush. After we dug the hole we put the plant in and put the grass and soil back in and tapped it.

Abby and Cara

Tree Planting

Miss Russell — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:53:55 +0000

All of our class were out planting trees yesterday and we got help from Mrs Cormack and Mrs Park.

Amy and Christina

We all got a shovel and a plant . First we had to measure so that we knew where to put the plant. Then we dug a small hole and put the grass to the side of the hole and then we put the plant to the side of the hole. Then put the grass and the soil and packed it in to the hole either with our hand or the shovel. Some of us done two or three.Then when we had planted all of the plants we all sat doneon the grass and looked at what we had done.We where all proud of what we had done.

Abby Houliston

John Muir’s Childhood

Miss Russell — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:50:33 +0000

We are going to talk about John Muir and his life . John Muir was born in Dunbar in 1838. He moved to America with his family when he was a boy and grew up on a farm in Wisconsin. He loved living by the sea and on a farm by nature. John’s parents could not afford to send him to school so John taught himself to read and write getting up at dawn to do his lessons before he worked on the farm all day. He eventually went to university.

Keith & Niamh & Tyler.