Saturday, December 16, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Back on Track!
We're also at http://carronshore.edublogs.org/ - the class helped to choose the template. What do you think?
The videos didn't travel well and a lot of other things need fixing ..... we're working on it!
It would also be nice to stay here where we know how thing work! :-)
...... And our reply to our Dingwall friends will be posted soon (we got it wrong today!!)
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Famous .... by default!
I noticed that Carronshore Primary is mentioned on his wikispace (I'd asked him for help to put the link on our Blog and the link is still there .... so we're famous!).
The sad thing is that I ended up taking the link off our Blog because it was blocked at school and the children were never able to see it. I've resored it again and have put a link to it in the margin on the right as well ..... we'll need to ask the 'powers that be' to unblock it so that the pupils can enjoy it!!
Click the link here!
Google Earthed
Friday, December 08, 2006
The Titanic - A Report
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Poems and Reports!
Marc, thank you for your Report on our school ... First to complete it (and I agree that it is a great school to be in!) I'm really looking forward to reading the other finished reports!
Thank you too, to Laura, for all her help and hard work today ( see you next week) ... we'll work on getting the other 'Bubbleshare' pics displayed before your return!!
Please comment here!
Monday, December 04, 2006
A selection of our poems and 'Reports' Catch Up!
Today we listened to all the podcasts about 'How our School is Doing'. We made some notes and discussed what should be included in the final Reports. We are going to work with a writing partner in our computer suite to write the reports. We hope to do this tomorrow!!
Friday, December 01, 2006
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Writing Reports
Today, P.C. Ward visited our school to tell us what is involved when writing a police report. He read us some notebook entries. A community policeman always carries a spare notebook because they write down lots of details.
The notebook entries are very important because they are used to write up the formal reports that are presented in court. We had lots of questions to ask P.C. Ward and we made a video. We'll put in on our blog soon. He gave us lots of advice about report writing.
'How is Our School Doing?' Questionnaires
Mrs Nathaniel is a Parent and also a school employee. Thomas and Jamie interviewed her. You can hear the podcast by clicking this. link
Mrs Nairn, our school secretary, was interviewed by James and Jamie L. Click here to hear her views.
Mrs Sheerin, a primary 7 teacher, spoke to Lisa and Danni. The podcast can be found here.
Miss Buick is a student who is working with the primary 7's this term. Here are her thoughts on the school so far. She spoke to Chloe C and Kaylegh.
Mrs Webster, one of our school helpers, and Mrs Duff, our Support for Learning teacher gave their views as well. You can click on their podcast by following this link
We are going to gather together all the different views and write a class report on how our school is doing. The report will be available in our new Functional Writing spaces soon!!
We always enjoy reading the comments that are left on our Blog.
Please comment on this post by clicking on this link
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Very Exciting Comments!
There have also been comments from our friends in Dingwall Primary - they make great videos and we hope to learn from them!!
Thank you also to all at 5/6P AllStars in Australia - maybe we'll start debating too. They've given us plenty of advice to start us off!!
Kirklandneuk Primary have given us ideas for French lessons ... we gave the web address to our French teachers in school
................ to mention just a few!!!
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Friendship Poems - And Other News!
We all wrote Friendship Cinquains in class this week. We took photos of our own poems and we are going to import them into our new 'Poem Pages'
We also have new Imaginative Writing Pages and we've copied and pasted our 'Magic Box' stories to there.
We are going to do the same with our Autobiographies by placing them in our new Personal Writing Pages
Soon we're going to be doing some Report Writing, based on our new 'Disasters' Environmental Studies Topic. You'll be able to read these in our new Functional Writing Pages !
Meanwhile, over in our Math Class Blog we've been experimenting again with our new digital video camera ...... Mrs V accidentally deleted our Poem videos from Google Video so they can no longer be viewed on this Blog - but they're still in the camera, so they'll be uploaded again soon!!
Thursday, November 23, 2006
New Comment from Africa - update
Gregory posted this comment on our Blog all the way from Namibia (we saw the town on our 'geovisitors' link earlier today ..... welcome, Gregory!!)!
At 23 November, 2006, Anonymous said...
Hallo
My name is Gregory, I live in Namibia in the south west of Africa.The town is Khorixas.Around here we live in very hot temperatures ranging from 32 up 40 degrees.I saw your blog on the internet and I loved the project, as this is an excellent method in helping the younger ones to start reading and using computers.Through writing and the internet I have also recently made a contact with a top I.T professional in England called Neil.If you read more and more you get more and more brains P.S: keep this in mind,.......
GREGORY
I've been talking to Neil in Manchester. He lives with Steph and her mum has recently gone out to work in Namibia. She put Gregory in touch with Neil (my eldest son ..... the top I.T. professional!? :-) ) and we think that she gave Gregory our Blog address ..... what a small world.
Please leave a comment by clicking here
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Book Fayre
We had a great time looking at books at our recent 'Book Fayre'.
We looked at all the very many different types of books available ..... maybe some will help us in our writing?
We're going to try to write some poems tomorrow - we'll try to publish them on our 'Wikispaces' on Friday!!
Please comment here
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Magic Box Stories
'Magic Box' Comments
Here are the comments we received about our 'Magic Box' stories. We think Harry posted all the way from Australia! Neil is Mrs V's (class teach) son, who logged onto our blog from Manchester. What a great comment about the 'Movie Trailer' interviews ........ and Happy Birthday today, Neil!!!
At 08 November, 2006, Harry said...
Magic Box... It sounds very interesting, but I was wondering what the story "Magic Box" is about?
At 08 November, 2006, p7 teach said...
Hello Harry,It's about whatever the pupils in my class want it to be about! Check out our writing spaces link if you like - the stories are all very different!
At 16 November, 2006, Neil said...
Hi! I'm really impressed with this creative writing idea. It's great how many different stories can come from the same title. I also like the interview - it's like a movie trailer to get you interested in the story.
New Technology!! Video Deleted in Error!! But rescued later!!
We're deciding whether it's best to post the videos directly on to our blog, or whether to create a link to our wikispace ........ please comment!!
Video Link
Friday, November 17, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Parents' Night
Friday, November 10, 2006
'Magic Box' Evaluations
In the 'P.I.T.', we've been busy peer and self assessing our Magic Box stories. Danni's
review of her own story is just great - she is so pleased with her effort (and so am I!). She wrote most of her story on paper first and then typed it up on her wikispace page. The only trouble is that her story is about 8 pages long, so she didn't have time to transfer it all .... but she'd love some comments on what she's made public so far!
I love the way that Lisa explains in her self-evaluation that, as she re-read her story, she tried to put herself in a 'geovisitor's' shoes ........ :) What a great idea!
Josh is really pleased with his effort. He says that he worked really hard with his writing partners to fix the spelling and punctuation to make it eaier for the reader to follow. He loves to play computer games, and has made some of his favourite characters 'come alive' in his story.
A Wikispace Experiment!
The History Button
Earlier today Jamie's story read like this. I made some minor 'secretarial' changes. It now looks like this. The changes are very small, but if Jamie was to click on his history tab on the top of his wikispace page, he'd be able to see some small changes (the odd capital letter replacing lower case, a missing comma added, etc.) to his great story.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Even More Math Class Action!
Over in our Math Class Blog we've been very busy working away 'behind the scenes'. ...... and there's lots more planned. Why not take a look?
Meanwhile on this blog, we're ready to self assess our 'Magic Box' stories - check in again soon to have a read!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
For P 7V - Update of 2 stars and 1 wish (comments included)!
07 November, 2006
Kim said .... Your writing assessment worksheet looks really interesting. What sort of "star" comments do you use? Do you think that this sort of assessment sheet helps you to focus on the areas you need to work on in your writing? How helpful/useful is it? I'm interested because my class need some help in "polishing" their writing, before they publish.Thanks
Reply
Hello Kim,
Thank you so much for visiting our blog .... and thank you for taking the time to write a comment. It's quite new for us to comment on each others' writing but we're trying to learn to appreciate the good things - the 'star qualities'.
We're also learning to comment on what can be improved, but are trying to not hurt others' feelings - the 'wish for the future'.
We want to encourage each other to write so we always have 2 stars and only 1 wish ... does this help answer your question?
We're not sure yet how much of a difference it will make ........
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
More Math Class Action ... and other exciting news!
An exciting day for Carronshore Primary today ..... we received our very first visitor comment - and it was from Australia!! Maybe we could be Blog Pals! Read it below (I only received it after the p7v had left .... we've spent the afternoon tracking them on our 'geovisitors' link).
Hello Primary 7V,
Your writing assessment worksheet looks really interesting. What sort of "star" comments do you use? Do you think that this sort of assessment sheet helps you to focus on the areas you need to work on in your writing? How helpful/useful is it? I'm interested because my class need some help in "polishing" their writing, before they publish.Thanks
You'll need to scroll down to the photo of our '2 Stars and a Wish' worksheet to read the original.
We'll definately reply tomorrow!!
Friday, November 03, 2006
End of an Exciting Week!
We've also been in touch briefly with some fabulous bloggers! Over at Priestsic Primary School, we learned how track our visitors. Check out our new More About Us Blog and click on the 'geovisitors' icon down in the right hand margin.
Over at Sandaig Otters Blog, they've given us a mention. We wish them luck with their new Media Room - it looks great.
Both these Blogs are FANTASTIC ..... we'll keep visiting them to catch up on their news.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Visit to Denny Primary School
Today some of us visited Denny Primary School to learn how pupils there use Edward de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats. We would like to say a big thank you to Mrs McKenna for arranging the visit - a special thanks too, to primary 4 and Mrs Kirk for sharing their great ideas with us.
The children use the activities from their 'Thinking Wall' to sharpen up their brains ..... we tried the 'Sorter' game in our own class today - it was great fun!!
We have written a fuller account of how they use the 'Thinking Hats'. Follow this link to read our account and to see some pictures of their colourful 'hats' display.
We interviewed P4 teacher, Mrs Kirk, to find out more about how they use thinking hats in class and made a podcast to put on our class blog.
Click the link below to hear our podcast! ........ please give it a moment or two to load :)
http://primary7.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/denny+final.mp3
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The Magic Box!!
http://primary7.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/magic+box3.mp3
Click the link to hear the interview......but be patient, please, because it takes a wee while to load.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
A website link
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Saturday, October 07, 2006
2 Stars and a Wish
Friday, October 06, 2006
Here are the comments that Lisa put on her page:
"2 stars and a wish is , 2 good polite comments on their
piece of writing and a thing you think they should try and improve on. My class
use this on all our writing and work with a friend . The 2 stars and a wish idea
is great it helps you be truthful and honest with your friends and you won't
feel bad. My class have designed our own layout of 2 stars and a wish , we drew
2 stars and some to do with a wish and what we do is write in them. I think all
schools should use this idea .It will help the class co-operate together. We
also talk to the class about the persons work so it's like a little
presentation."
She also commented on some writing using '2 stars and a wish'
Jamie has started a fantastic thriller like story 'please read
- Star 1~ Fantastic description and detail well done
- Star 2~ Brilliant use of detailed words great start
- My wish ~ FINISH IT (because its superb)
Thursday, October 05, 2006
The Story so Far
Fortunately, Sean decided not to follow my intructions and called his page a slightly different name..... and his writing was still there ( not following my instructions earned him 10 marbles on this occasion!!! Thank you Sean).
Today some pupils left the 'blog' site without saving their work. Oh dear - a lot of typing disappeared into cyberspace!
However, I logged on tonight to have a look and was heartened by what I read. Check out the children's pages .... and a great big thank you to Lisa for her lovely comments about her classmates' writing! She is so right - keep going Jamie, Josh, Danni and Jeanan ... and everyone else!
Mrs V
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Welcome
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Our first Blog! I'm hoping to use this weblog to provide a link between the school, the pupils in my class and their parents. I hope that the parents will contribute by commenting on the children's work and that the pupils will comment on each others' work. Primary 7V have been learning to assess each others' writing in a way at is both constructive and non-offenive, using '2 stars and a wish' . . . . more information will follow!
Meanwhile, why don't you try out the problem solving link on the right? Choose level 2/3 to begin with. The solutions are published at the end of the month!
Any pupils want a challenge? Try out the other math link!
The third link is to Primary 7V Math class blog - under construction at the moment!