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.