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Percy The Park Keeper has never heard of the Flum Flum Tree!

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What a busy week we have had in Primary One! It has been our school READ week and so we have been doing lots of work with books and lots of thinking about what we find inside books.

We have focused on two books in our class for READ week. We started the week by looking at a book by Julia Donaldson called Jack and the Flum Flum Tree. We all agreed that it was great and we really enjoyed reading it.

We were all really impressed with how clever Jack, Rose and Stu were to use the items Granny gave them to save them whilst they were on their journey.  We had so much fun guessing what Jack and his friends would use the objects for, that we really amazed to discover that Granny had sent us a patchwork bag full of different items to use if we were travelling to the Isle of Blowyernose.

We had no idea what so of the items were and so we had to think very carefully about what each thing in the bag could be used for on our adventure- it was super and we all had really different and creative ideas. Here are some of them;

  

  

  

                   

We used all that we had been learning about the book to write a blurb for the back of the book because we were surprised to see that there wasn’t one. Mrs Mackay was really impressed.

We were even happier when we discovered that we were all given a present from the Book Bug on Wednesday. We all got a bag which had four books in it. We couldnt wait to get home and read them to and with our grown ups. Everyone got very excited when we found out that Jack and The Flum FLum Tree was one of the books in the bag along with Solomon Crocodile (who we think needs to learn to be a bit nicer to his friends so they are nicer with him), The Day Louis Got Eaten and a book which is written in Scots called Jordans New Jaiket. We also got a workbook that we could do at home. It was a super surprise and lots of us told our teachers that it was one of our favourite parts of READ week.

  

We also took part in P5/6’s Book Swap. We brought in our old books from home and we swapped each of our unwanted books for a new one we hadn’t read yet but would like it. We all agreed that it was a very clever idea! Afterwards, some of the P5/6 boys and girls asked us questions so that they could fill in a questionnaire they had made.

  

We had lots of lovely visitors this week. On Monday the librarian from Coldside Library came to visit us and read us some stories. She told us that we could all go to the library and borrow some books and that there are computers there that we are allowed to use too. We also had Mrs Baxter from the Nursery who surprised us with a visit to read some of her (and our) favourite books. It was lovely to have Mrs Baxter in our classroom and we really listened carefully to her stories. 

 

Some of the older boys and girls in the school also came to read to us. Primary 3/4 came as our paired readers and read us their reading books. We all enjoyed reading their stories with them. On Friday some boys from Primary 7 came down to tell us some stories. They were brilliant at it and we all loved listening to the stories they had chosen for us to hear.

                                                

One of our favourite activities during Read week was our Teddy Bear’s Picnic afternoon.  We all brought in a teddy bear from home to join us for a fun afternoon.  We made teddy bear bookmarks, had a teddy bear drive, played parachute games, listened to teddy bear stories and did teddy bear dot to dots.

    

  

After all the activities we got together in the hall with our teddy bears for a picnic.  What a lot of hungry bears!  One teddy had a packet of teddy bear crisps!

  

On Friday we all came to school as our favourite character – it was super fun and we all looked great!!!

As part of our homework challenge we had to draw or create a model of our favourite Roald Dahl character. Mrs Mackay was amazed at the fabulous models and pictures which came in….

  

                        

  

  

We have also been thinking carefully about healthy diets over the last few weeks and some of us made lists of our favourite healthy foods.

 

Finally, because the weather has turned colder we have been thinking about people who don’t have as much as us and those people who cannot get out of their house because they are poorly or they are ill. We decided to have a harvest collection for them and we were really generous and brought in lots of food to help others.

Week Beginning Monday 3rd December

  • Remember to bring your filled, named water bottle with you every day (no juice please).
  • HOMEWORK – Please send it to school every day but any tasks should be completed by Wednesday. The teacher will collect in the weeks work on Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of 3 each week. There will be no homework on a Wednesday night.
  • Gym is on a Monday. Please remember long hair will need to be tied back and no jewellery. This means all earrings must be removed. Thank you.
  • Fruit money will be £1.80 for the term.

    • Dens Road Christmas Fayre is on Friday 7th December from 1.30pm-3pm – you can collect your child from their classroom at 1.30pm and they will guide you around the fayre.

    Books, bric a brac, cake and candy, children’s craft, toys, face painting, games etc.

    Admission (includes refreshments) Child 50p Adult £1

    We’ll cast a spell on you!

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    Well, what a magical week we have had in Primary 1 this week. As part of our homework tasks some of us made magnificent magical wands! There are all very different and our teachers and classmates think that they are fantastic!! We had to think of what spell we would cast with our wands because in the story of Sleeping Beauty the good fairies and the bad fairy cast spells with their wands. Some us would cast a spell to give us princess dresses, some of us would cast a spell to make us run fast, some of us would cast a spell to give us presents whenever we wanted and some of us said that our wand would turn the lights on and off when we waved it. They are all wonderful and our teachers are very proud of us and our families for such fantastic work!

    Also, as part our homework over the last two weeks some of us have been drawing pictures of Sleeping Beauty, her castle, the fairies and even the spindle that she pricked her finger on and fell asleep for 100 years! Mrs Mackay thinks that we might be famous artists when we grow up they are so good. Here are few for you to see.

    In number work, we have been learning all about sorting. We used the Promethean Board to help us play different games where we had to sort bears into different circles depending on what colour they were. Then we had to sort flowers, this was trickier because we could sort them by colour or height or by how many leaves they had. Lastly, we had to sort kangaroos but they made us think hard too because some had matching t-shirts on and some had matching hats so we could sort them two different ways. We really got the hang of it and soon we were sorting using different materials. We got lots of colourful buttons. Some of us wanted to sort the buttons by shape and some of sad we would sort them by colour. We also had some animals which we said we could sort by species or colour. We recorded our sorting results by taking a photo of our work. We all did very well and used super thinking!

    In Language and Topic, we have been learning more Jolly Phonic sounds. We did ‘e’ and ‘h’ this week and we had lots of fun finding them in different pieces of work on the board so we decided to all take a page from the story of Sleeping Beauty and we highlighted some of the sounds we have been learning. Some of us were able to colour exclaimation and question marks that we recognised!

    On Friday Ms Gauld, our Healthy Eating Assistant, came to visit half of our class to talk to us about how to keep our teeth healthy. First of all WALT, our ‘class crocodile’ told us what we would be learning and WILF, our ‘class pink rabbit’ told us how to succeed and how to make our teacher smile. Then Ms Gauld showed us how to brush our teeth and how much toothpaste to use. Next we met Buzzy who showed us his teeth and Ms Gauld told us what all the different teeth do when we eat. We all agreed that we should brush our teeth at least twice a day and Ms Gauld explained that in a couple of weeks we will all get to brush our teeth at school after lunch too – we are sure that that will make our smiles even more beautiful! We also looked at what foods were good for our teeth and what foods can be bad for our teeth. We even got to see some teeth which have not been looked after properly which we all agreed where a but yucky and so  before Ms Gauld left she gave everyone in our group a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste to use at home (and we were all very polite and used lovely manners to say thank you).

    In the Active Learning Zone we have been practicing making wands too. At the creative area we can cut, stick, draw and glue anything we like. We have make some wonderful things this week. Lots of wands and we had to design our own. Some of us made brilliant robots and learned how to staple with a little stapler.

    At the Science table we have been investigating shiny things. Glass beads, shiny materials and shiny letters. We are really good at finding all the shiny letters hidden in the shiny beads.

    At the playdough table we have been making sausages and making them into letters. We have to try and make the letters that we have learned about so far.

    At the story table we have been making stories from the felt shapes. We have been making knights and princess and dragons. Next week we are going to video our friends telling their princess stories.

    At the Numeracy table we have been making some fantastic shape pictures. Some of us have started finding our name, putting it beside our picture and taking a photograph of it. Well done!

    Week Starting 10th September 2012

    • We are full time this week. We come to school at 9am and finish at 3.15pm. Remember we will need a packed lunch or money for lunch. If you are going home for lunch then lunchtime is from 12.15pm till 1.15pm.
    • Remember to bring your filled, named water bottle with you every day (no juice please).
    • We will send homework out on a Thursday. Please send it to school every day but any tasks should be completed by Wednesday. The teacher will collect in the weeks work on Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of 3. There will be no homework on a Wednesday night.
    • Gym is on a Monday and Thursday. Please remember long hair will need to be tied back and no jewellery. This means all earrings must be removed.
    • ICT is on Wednesday afternoons.

    Our project is Sleeping Beauty.

    This week we will be learning ;

    • how to plan our own learning in a mind map
    • Jolly Phonics sounds r,m and d
    • how to use the computer to make a picture using Textease Paint
    • the Swahili  song Jambo so that we can sing it for our visitors  on 20th September.