Monthly Archives: September 2010

Autumn is coming

We have all had a good week this week. We have learned lots of new Jolly Phonics sounds and we are practising them every day.
We have been reading our Oxford Reading Tree books. P1a1 have been reading The Lost Teddy and P1a2 have been reading At School. We have enjoyed using the Promethean Board to look at our stories using the Magic Page.
In Maths we have trying to remember what our numbers up to ten look like, trying to write them and to count up to ten things. We made ten green bottles at our Making Table and will be playing with them next week.
We have been talking about harvest and Autumn. We have been playing with conkers, leaves and fir cones and talking about the changes we will see outside. We have been investigating Autumn things through the microscope. We made finger print trees in art and during our ICT lesson we drew a tree in Textease paint and used the stamper tool to add leaves.

ICT

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We have had a busy learning our new sounds, g, l and o. We have been continuing to practise all our sounds. Playing with making their shapes with play dough, singing our Jolly Phonics songs on the karaoke machine and writing our sounds on the whiteboards and pens at the writing table.

In maths we have been learning about making patterns. We have used beads to make patterns with two colours and practising these at our numeracy table during activities. We have made pictures with sticky paper and have used colours and shapes to make the patterns.  We remember to use the digital camera to take photographs when we have completed a pattern.

We have been creating brilliant models at the bricks. We have used our imagination and created buildings, mosques and castles. Next week we will be using the bricks to build a town for our railway.

This was our first week in the ICT suite. We used a program called Textease Paint. We have been talking about ourselves in school and drew pictures of our faces. We thought about the colour of our eyes and our hair. Look out for a letter home next week as at Dens Road we have the Softease Community at Home licence and you will receive the download URL and password for use of Textease at home.

Full-time!

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We have all enjoyed being at school full-time and have been learning to make choices at lunchtime. Well done to us, we won first prize at the Dundee Food and Flower Festival for our bugs craft activity!

We painted messy hand prints to make our learning tree. We have been talking about what we have been learning since we started school.

Our Jolly Phonics sounds this week were r, m, d and h. We need to keep practising our sounds because this will help us when we start to read.

We had gym for the first time and used our super listening ears to carry out all our instructions.

We have been continuing to learn about shapes and have been doing lots of shape activities and creating shape pictures.

Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to our ‘Meet the Teachers’ event on Thursday evening. It was great to see you many of you there.

Sounds, Shapes and Bugs

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Welcome to the end of week three for our P1’s. It’s been a busy week with parents joining us for a school lunch. And it was Elaine the Cook made yummy spaghetti bolognese!

Our latest Jolly Phonics sounds are c, k and e. We have been looking for things beginning with these sounds and playing memory games to test our brains.

In maths we have been sorting. We can sort things by colour and size and put them into groups. We have also been making patterns with beads and peg boards. Try asking us about shapes because we have learning about triangles, circles, squares and rectangles.

Look out for our entry at the Dundee Flower & Food Festival at Camperdown Park as we have put in a P1 entry. We had great fun with our first art lesson and made bees, ladybirds, caterpillars and butterflies.

Full time on Monday. Looking forward to being in school from 9am till 3.15pm.