Last week we went to John Muir`s birthplace in Dunbar to learn more about his life. All the primary five pupils are doing a John Muir Award, we are conserving the Law by helping to redirect the path up the Law because it is being eroded and we will be making podcasts with information about the Brithonic Iron Age people for tourists to download.
Before we visited the birthplace we learned about his life by making a timeline of his life and we learned about his inventions and that he was a conservatinist and environmentalist.
When we got there we learned lots of new things like lots of his books were published after he died and that he worked at a newspaper, he started the Sierra Club and lots of other things.
By Charlotte and Chloe P5B
Visit to the John Muir birthplace was very fun and lots of facts to find out and could learn in lots of different ways. You could be active by moving to sit on the chair that gave you a shock. By Matthew
Glenn
when 5a and 5/6 went to the john muirs birth place it was fun and interesting we learnt lots of facts
I really enjoyed the john muir birth place because there was 3 floors and even computer games with facts and by the way it was so fun.
When we went to the John Muir Birthplace it was really fun . I learned a lot of things that I didn’t know before we left like when John’s two daughters were born. There were three floors and every floor had different things in it. The third floor had two timelines in it and the second floor had wooden squares in it that had pictures on one side and a fact to match the picture on the other side. It was really fun and I really enjoyed it. I hope we can go again.
P5 went to Dunbar the town where John Muir was born. We went to the John Muir’s birthplace and I these are the things I learnt while we were there
1. John invented a chair that if you sat on that chair for long enough it would shoot a pistol
2. When he was two he moved to the house next door.
3. He was born in Dunbar 1838
The John Muir birthplace was a really good visit. Thanks to all parents who helped including bus driver and teachers. I learnt a lot of things in there.
Here are some things I learnt,
1. John Muir dug a well at 19 feet in Wisconsin.
2. He moved to America aged 11.
3. He said Dunbar was his favourite playground
4. He invented a chair that scared unwanted guests away
5. He was blinded in a factory in Canada.
They were just some of the few things I learned
i loved it so party ! On floor 1 was so cool!!!!!!!!!!! so get down ther the place is in dunbar i lernd somuch when we went !! Floor 2 i liked too but floor 1 was my fave beacause i loved the borown cher that made a noise when some one sat onit . Floor 3 was good because it had aome interactiv games.
I really enjoyed the John Muir birthplace visit I thought it was really interesting and factual.
I learned a ton of stuff and I loved the 1st floor the best.
Andrew 5a
I learned a lot of things from the John Muir Birthplace. Before we went we did a project on him. I learned almost as much about him in one day than in the whole project. The whole museum was giant! It was really informative and interesting.
I liked john muirs birthplace because we learnt a lot of stuff and there was computer things there. There were three rooms. Two rooms had computers the middle room was the smallest room. But the middle room had a telly! The middle room didn’t need a computer if it had a telly. I liked the top room the best because you learnt a lot about John muir.
The visit from Ali sparks was AMAZING. She was really inspiring she was also really funny. Here first book out was a 5 book series called shape shifter I’ve not read it yet but I really want to it sound amazing. It actually took Ali Sparks a while to get shape shifter out. Ali made Mrs Macniven try to draw a telli tubbie by just explaining the telli tubbie it didn’t turn out very well.
The visit to the John Muir birthplace was really good we all found out really interesting facts about him.
Catriona 5A
All of p5 went to John Muir’s birth place there was three floors. On the top floor there were computers. On the middle floor there is a little corner where you can read books, a wooden board with squares that you can flip over and a step you can stand on to see information. On the bottom floor there was lots of pictures and information on what he made.
We went to John muirs birthplace in Dunbar to learn more about John muir .It was very exiting to be in his house I would recommend you to go John muir is a very important person .here are three things I learnt there 1.he was a enviromentlist2.John muir died of pneumonia3.he died in 1914.
Visiting john muirs birthplace was really fun because i learned alot of things that i have never knew about before!!! Im not sure which was my favourite floor because they where all so interesting!! My favourite fact i learned was definatly the one what says john muir danced the highland fling all night on top of a mountain to stop him getting freezed to death!!!!
We went to John Muirs birthplace because it was for our john muir reading challenge. Three things which I found out there was that he got blind in both eyes, he had two daughters called Wanda and Helen and lastly he camped with president Rosevelt.
It was very interesting and I learned a lot of facts about his life which ranged from the day he was born to the day he died. You could play a game about making an eco-house and a about making an eco-part of land. I learned that he wrote over 500 articles for a newspaper. He even had some of his books published after he died. It was amazing.
We went to the Jhon Muir birthplace so we could learn a lot more about his life.I never knew how thick the whip they where hit with was until I got there and another thing I didnt know is that john and his friends liked to play with gun powder also he invented a noisy chair so when you sit on it it makes anoise to scare away unwanted visitors.
We went to John Muir’s birth place because we have been learning alot about John Muir lately and so Mrs Jack took some p5s from her class and 5b and I found out that John’s dad Daniel Muir ran a shop. It was not just him living in a hous there was three floors there was John’s family on one floor and another family on the and a family on the top he was he helped make Yosemite a national park and he had two daughters Wanda and Helen.
We visted John Muir Birth Place in Dubar because we had to learn more things about him to actually know what he did.I learned he really hurt his eye and was blind for a few years and that he worked in the newspaper for a few years and some of the books he wrote got published after he died.
John Muir Birthplace
We visited because we had been learning about him this term and last. John moved next door because they did not have much room, He died of pneumonia.
P5 visited John Muir’s birthplace to learn more about John and how and where he lived. Three things that I learned that I did not know before were… he danced the highland fling all night to stop himself from freezing to death, he and his wife Louie were a very good match, he died in the Los Angela’s hospital of pneumonia.
We visited it because we are doing the John Muir reading award and we learned a lot about him in school and we went there to learn even more. I learned that when John was 2 and a half he moved next door to the John Muir’s Birthplace, and when he was in America, San Francisco and explored he forested and was a shepherd and hated it because the sheep ate the flowers and John loved the flowers and nature. That there was two fireplaces and one was small and one was big and the big one was used for the cooking at making to stew or dinner.
My class visited the John Muir Birthplace to learn all about John Muir.
Three things I learnt before I went…
1. John was born in Dunbar in 1838
2.John was a Environmentalist.
3.John died of pneumonia in 1914 in Los Angelos.
Primary 5 went to John Muirs birthplace because it is part of our John Muir award. Three things I learned when I was there were John Muir died in 1914 of pneumonia in Los Angeles Hospital, he invented a chair that if you sat on too long a pistol would shoot the bottom of the chair to give you a fright, when he was two he moved to the house next door!