As part of our World War 2 topic, we have recreated a street scene on our classroom wall. First we looked at photographs taken of Clydebank in Scotland in the late 1930s. We investigated the types of houses and buildings then worked with a partner to draw them. Next we worked in our cooperative learning [...]
Entries from November 30th, 2011
Marvellous Musicians
November 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Christmas, Music
We’ve been learning how to play the Glockenspiel. We’re learning a ‘jazzy’ version of jingle bells which we will play at our upcoming ‘Stocking Full of Singing’ concert on the 15th December. Remember to get your tickets as they are selling fast! Report This Post
Tags:
Snowboarding Snowmen
November 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
This week in Dunipace Primary is Enterprise week. Primary 7 have been extremely busy as we have the challenging task of planning, organising and coordinating the P4-7 Christmas concert. Our first task was to choose a name for our company. After a lot of ideas were put forward the class finally voted for Jake’s choice [...]
Tags:
P4-7 Christmas Concert
November 16th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
<div align=”center” style=”width:140px;border:1px solid #ccc; background: #040244; color: #FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-bottom:0px”> <a style=”text-decoration: none; color:#F9F9FF;” href=”http://mycountdown.org/Event/Concert/”>Concert Countdown</a></div> Report This Post
Tags:
Epals!
November 16th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Citizenship, Curriculum for Excellence, ICT, Language, PSD, Writing
We wrote letters to children who live in Tampa, Florida in the United States of America. The project is called epals and we plan to keep in touch with them throughout the whole year by writing letters and emails. We received our first replies today! It was interesting to hear about their families, their hobbies [...]
Tags:
WWII Workshop at Dunipace Church
November 16th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Curriculum for Excellence, Social Studies
Primary 7 visited Dunipace church to take part in a range of activities to investigate World War II. There was a lot of information and artefacts to look at. What did you learn when you were there? Report This Post
Tags:
Natural Disaster Books
November 16th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Art, Curriculum for Excellence, Environmental Studies, Language, Writing
Before we started to write our first chapter we had to think of what Natural disaster to do, the choices were tornado, earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami, sand storm, heat wave, hurricane and flood. Then we had to fold the paper to look like a book. Every week we had to write two paragraphs for our [...]
Tags:
Rumble and Tumble Buildings
November 16th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Curriculum for Excellence, Problem Solving, Technology, Thinking Skills
We were told to construct a building that could withstand hurricane conditions. First we were told to take the materials that we needed which were: Balsa wood, cardboard, art straws, lollipop sticks and recycling materials. Our buildings had to be taller than 30cm. And we tried to make it heavy so it wouldn’t fall even [...]
Tags:
