Primary 5V Class Blog

Scottish Wars of Independence

Mrs V — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:49:45 +0000

Primary 5V have been learning about the Scottish Wars of Independence and last week Clanranald came to tell us more about life during that time.

After the visit, everyone jotted down some notes about what they had learned. We’ve added some of these orally to the pictures we took on the day.

Have a look/listen and let us know what you think.

Clanranald Final from Carronshore Primary on Vimeo.

Random Acts of Kindness

Mrs V — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:11:03 +0000

For the past few weeks, Primary 5V have been sharing some Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.) around the school. Have a look at our video to see what we’ve been doing up until now.

Leave us a comment if you have any other kindness sharing ideas that we could spread!

Random Acts of Kindness from mvass on Vimeo.

Our Class Poem – ‘If Only…….’

Mrs V — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:06:15 +0000

Last week we watched a video about how to write an ‘If Only…’ poem and we decided to try to write our own one with the same title. We chose whether we wanted to work with a partner or work on our own, and we brainstormed our ‘if only….’ ideas.

We made a PowerPoint slide to illustrate each idea. We also recorded our verses and then put them all together in Windows Movie Maker to make one big ‘If Only….’ class poem.

We’ve got some more ideas about more ‘If Only…..’ poems – but meanwhile have a look/listen below at our first attempt and please leave a comment to let us know what you think.

If Only from mvass on Vimeo.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Mrs V — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:14:08 +0000

This is our last week at school before our Christmas break. We wrote some Winter Poems to help decorate our school hall.

First, we thought of three nouns to do with Winter – one thing that you see, one thing that you hear and one thing that you smell. We then wrote two adjectives to describe each noun.

For the last line of the poem we wrote about how all these things made us feel. Finally, we decorated the big letter ‘W’ with some winter clipart.

Here are our poems. Leave us a comment to let us know what you think of them

Winter Poems on PhotoPeach

We’ve Been Nominated!

Mrs V — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:13:51 +0000

There was a lot of excitement in class today when we realised that we have been nominated for an Edublog Award!!

Please vote for us by going to THIS PAGE

Once there, click on the drop down menu icon (the red arrow below points to it).

Then choose ‘Class Blog’.

Look for Primary 5V Class Blog and just click on the circle beside that name. The circle turns blue and all you need to do is click on the ‘Vote’ icon at the bottom of the list (see the red arrows below).

You can vote for us once each day until Sunday!

A Class of Real Clever Blogs!

Mrs V — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:53:56 +0000

Last week, everyone in Primary 5V had a lovely surprise because we discovered that there was an article written about us in a magazine. The magazine is called TES Scotland and you can read the online version of our article HERE.

We thought we might see the article appearing because a few weeks ago Douglas came to our school and asked us what we had been doing with our ePortfolio blogs.

At the time, Stuart wrote about it on his blog.

Here’s what he wrote:

”Hello world, its me again!

We just had a special visitor who was from a news paper company.

He came to see our ePortfolios. We did a power point presentation. He asked us some questions and we answered them. My part in the power point presentation was to tell him about the blogging safety rules.

There were some bits about my ePortfolio, it showed my map, my visitors column and my post about maths.

So our class is going to be in an education news paper.

We might be famous for our ePortfolios after a few days!”

So Stuart was right – well done to all of Primary 5V!

You can read some more from Stuart’s ePortfolio blog by clicking HERE.

He’d love to get some comments on his posts, too, if you have time

Gotta Keep Reading – Carronshore Style!

Mrs V — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:22:51 +0000

We had a great day showing off our blog and our ePortfolios to all the Carronshore parents during our open afternoon.

Everyone seemed very impressed!

Have a look at what else happened in Carronshore Primary School this morning, though, and let us know what you think

Carronshore – Gotta Keep Reading from mvass on Vimeo.

Our National Poetry Day Friendship Cinquains

Mrs V — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:04:02 +0000

On Thursday it was National Poetry Day and we had a whole school assembly so that all the classes could share the poems that they had written.

The theme was ‘Stars’ and Primary 5V decided to write Friendship Cinquains .

We interviewed a good friend and asked them to describe themselves then we wrote poems.

We wrote them again onto a Powerpoint slide then saved them as a jpeg.

After that we put them all into Photostory 3 then we all voted what music we should use. We got the music from this site.

we’re going to put them on to our own ePortfolios

On Friday we showed them on the big screen to the rest of the school.

We thought they looked great!

Leave us a comment if you like our poems!

Our Friendship Cinquains from mvass on Vimeo.

Finally …. Some Digital Stories!

Mrs V — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:17:36 +0000

Well – as promised here are some of our collaborative digital stories! Have a look/listen and let us know what you think.

We’re going to add them to our ePortfolios as inside school achievements and we’ll write about how we worked together to plan, write, make and publish them.

Here’s Ellie and Rachel’s story.

Bobby, Daniel and Robbie worked hard on their ‘ Deadly Desert’ story

Here’s one about a Snowball Fight from Ross and James

Jamie M decided to work on his own for this ‘Football Match’ story

Finally (for now – we’ll post more soon!) here’s one about a Trip to Paris from Stuart, Faiza and Ellie T

A Short Catch Up Post

Mrs V — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:20:08 +0000

Everyone in Primary 5V has been very busy during the first three weeks back at school after the Summer holidays.

One of the things we’ve been doing is working hard to create some collaborative digital stories … they’re almost ready so watch this space

We’ve also been getting to know our new ePortfolio spaces. It takes a while to set these up and we’re really keen to share what we’ve been achieving inside and outside of school. Meanwhile some of us have been experimenting with our new spaces and we’ve updated them in our own time using the ‘Our News’ categories. Have a look at some of them and let us know what you think.

Ellie R wrote a post about her weekend. It sounds like she really enjoyed it. Have a read by clicking on the image below. Let her know what you think of her ePortfolio so far.

Daniel T has chosen a great theme. Everyone in class likes to click on the different theme effects at the top of his new ePortfolio. He took some time to write a short post about how much he’s looking forward to learning in Primary 5V. Click on his blog image below to pay a visit.

Aimee W has chosen yet another ePortfolio theme and last night she decided to have a go at writing a post from home so that she could tell about her short break in North Berwick this weekend. Click her blog image to read her post – leave a comment if you have time!