Entries from August 2008

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

I spy with my little eye……

As part of our mapping skills we’ve been talking about oblique aerial photographs and vertical aerial photographs. We’ve been looking at the work of photographer Yann Arthus-Bertand and locating the trampolines in our back gardens using www.flashearth.com!
Where do you think the flashearth image above is from?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Music to our ears!

Today the violin tutor visited primaries 5, 6 and 7. Miss Hans told us a little about the violin and played some beautiful music for us. If anyone is interested in starting violin lessons at the school please contact your teacher. (Primary 5-7 only – sorry )
What did you think [...]

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Flight to the Sun

Over the week we have been working on a story called Flight to the sun. On Tuesday afternoon after Mrs C told us the story, we were put into groups of 4 to retell the story in our own way, even though we heard the story we still thought it was SCARY in front of [...]

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Internet Safety

This week we’ve been talking about Internet Safety, particularly when using a blog. P7 have all had experience of using think.com, a blogging tool that is available to schools, but Mrs C wanted to explore the use of a class blog with edublogs.
Using this blog, we will be able to post pictures of our work [...]

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Welcome Back!

I’m sure everyone is looking forward to starting the new term! I’m certainly looking forward to working with P7 – watch this space!
Mrs C