Bear Sock Puppets

March 25, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

This week we have been busy making sock puppets.Mrs Munro brought in a sock puppet Hugh made at his art class and we decided we would love to make a sock puppet too. We had to stuff a sock with lots of stuffing and put elastic bands on it for his arms and legs. We had to colour him in using pens. We still have to finish them off but we think they are looking really cute.

In the classrooms we have been using our cameras and flipcams to take photos and videos of our learning. In P1a2 we have a special silver hat we were when it is our turning to record the learning that is taking place in the classroom.

In maths we have been adding. Some groups have been adding two numbers together and some have been adding three numbers together. We like using the dice to help us add.

We have been learning Goldilocks and the three bears songs at school too.

Look out for our Target and achievement sheets that will be coming home soon. We have been talking with our teachers about the things we are good at and the things we need to try harder with.

Next week P1a2 have a film crew coming to visit. We have been watching Talkie Time from BBC Learning Zone in class. The film crew are coming to film us while we watch new Talkie Time films to see if the stories are good. Have a look at Rod here. We love him. He is really funny. We thought it was just like Skype or Glow Meet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006yzvp

Our Classrooms

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The photographers for this week are Katie, Amy, Heather, Javeria, Zalanda, Lee, Asir, Kayleigh, Bethany and Ellis.

classroom (2) — Idris is a dragon who lives in our classroom.

classroom (3) — Benny likes lying in Idris' basket.

classroom (5) — These are the three bears who live in our cottage.

classroom (8) — We paint pictures of tricky words or Goldilocks and the thrree bears.

classroom (9) — At the playdough table we make tricky words.

classroom (7) — We go to the writing table and write about Idris and do tricky words.

classroom (6) — This is my Yogi Bear. We have been making sock puppets with stuffing.

classroom (12) — I like the toys in the sandpit and I like making sand castle.

classroom (11) — I like playing 'Wendy' in the Doll's House and I play with Kara.

classroom (10) — I like playing with the Three Bears Cottage.

Red Nose Day Tuck Shop

March 18, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

Hi everyone! We were all really excited today as we have organised the Red Nose Day Tuck Shop for the whole school. Before we started we watched a little video on the Red Nose Day website to show us why we are raising money.

http://www.rednoseday.com/about

First we had to think about all the kind of red things that we could have on sale. We drew pictures and wrote down our ideas. Then we had to decide on prices and we made price tickets. We decorated our area with Red Nose Day paper chains and bunting.We iced lots of cakes and put cherries on the top of some of them to make a red nose. Every class came along to our Red Nose Day Tuck Shop and we made £103.45!

After the Tuck shop we had Red Nose Day Bingo. The whole school went up to the gym hall and we all played bingo together. After lunchtime we had a talent show. Every class in the school had someone in their class to show their talent. In P1a2 some of the boys and girls sand Twinkle Twinkle little star. P1a1 had a mini talent show contest in their class to decide who would go through. Everyone performed in front of the class and then we voted on who should go through to the main talent show. The Amazing Acrobats got the most votes so they performed in the gym hall in front of the whole school. Most of us bought red noses too. It was a really fun day.

Baby Bear and his chair

March 11, 2011 User deactivated 3 Comments

A huge thank you to all the people who have commented on our blog!

This week has been a busy week in P1. We have been continuing with our learning through Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have had lots of story books all about Goldilocks and some of them tell the story in a different way.

101_3152 — We have lots of books about Goldilocks and the Three Bears

One of our favourite books has been “A Chair for Baby Bear”. This book is all about what happens after Goldilocks leaves the cottage and Baby bear has a broken chair. Baby bear must decide on a new chair for himself. We designed a chair for baby bear. Here are some of our designs.

This story made us think that Goldilocks was sorry for going into the bears cottage so we decided to write a letter to the bears from Goldilocks. We have just started with our letter so here is some of our writing.

In ICT this week we used Glow Meet for the first time. Glow meet is very special as you can talk to people and share things across Scotland. P1a1 sat in their classroom and P1a2 sat in their classroom. We went into Glow and went onto glow meet. We were able to send messages to our friends in the class next door and draw pictures for them. Then we turned on our camera and we were able to see the class next door and hear them. We all took turns of talking to one of our friends and asking them a question. We thought it was very funny.

Then we thought about how to stay safe on the internet. We talked about the internet being a placed that joined up computers all over the world and that is how everyone can see our blog! Here is the link to the movie we watched to help us think about staying safe online.

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/hectorsworld/Episode1/

We are looking forward to reading all your comments in class.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Dens Road

March 5, 2011 User deactivated 15 Comments

This week we have began looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We are going to be doing a lot of our learning through bears and Goldilocks. First we had to listen to the story and we had to plan what we wanted to have in our home corner. We drew pictures and wrote down all the things we heard in the story that we would need.

Then we had to cut out pictures from the story and put them into order. We had to try and sound out the words to help us decided where our pictures would go.

We can practise putting the story in the correct order.

As part of our homework we had to draw the favourite part of the story.

In the class we have a sorting activity where we have to read the words and organise the pictures.

At the writing table we have lots of different sheets to help us write about our topic.

In the class we are also starting one of our favourite activities. We have to Write the Room by going round the room and finding all the Goldilocks and the Three Bears words that are hidden.

Write the Room activity with our special pointing finger.

In the Active Learning Zone we are also learning about bears and Goldilocks. We have puppets at the puppet theatre, a Goldilocks mat and a beautiful Goldilocks at the BeeBot. We also have a bear interest table and bear number games to play on the computer to help us with our numbers ( http://www.topmarks.co.uk/PlayPop.aspx?f=TeddyNumbersv2 ).

We also have a Wii now and are learning how to play Yogi Bear. We have to share with our friend and help each other when we get stuck.

Yogi Bear is on the Wii and we are ready to learn.

We also have a Jellystone Park. Here we have to share with our friends and think about the kind of healthy food we would put in our picnic basket.

At the library area we have a Goldilocks book and Mrs Munro has recorded the story of Goldilocks onto the MP3 player. We can sit here and listen to the story.

Lastly we have our new Teddy Toy Shop. Here we are learning to recognise coins. We also have to remember to take turns so everyone can have a turn at being the shop keeper. We all like to be the shop keeper. We have lots of teddies for sale and have to remember to put the bar codes on our teddies before we put them on the shelf for sale.

Please leave a comment about our learning this week as we love to hear what you think.

Mrs Davies’ and Ms Lowden’s old bears

March 4, 2011 User deactivated 4 Comments

We have been learning about old toys and new toys.

Miss Davies mum has a teddy that is 59 years old. He is so old he only has a tiny bit of fur left on him.

When Mrs Davies was young she used to do operations on Teddy so he has lots of bits of him sewn up. Mrs Davies had to knit a special outfit for Teddy to protect him. He also has a pair of pants he wears!

Ms Lowden has a panda who is called Chi Chi. Chi Chi is 43 years old. She got Chi Chi for her very first Chrsitmas when she was a baby. Ms Lowden said that she has had to sew her Chi Chi because her dog used to chew it.