Royal Wedding Celebrations

April 28, 2011 User deactivated

This week we have been getting involved with lots of Royal Wedding celebrations. We have been learning all about princes and princesses. We listened to lots of different stories to help us with story starters. Lots of them start ‘Once upon a time….’.

We then began writing our own stories. We have only just started but some of our stories as great!

We looked at a flipchart that had lots of pictures about William and Kate getting married on Friday.

At school we had a special ‘STREET MEET’. Lots of parents came along and we had strawberries, juice and biscuits. There was a coconut shy, tattoos, face painting, a raffle and so much more. It was very busy so thank you to all the parents who waited in long queues! We made crowns with jewels to wear at our party. We made commemorative plates and bunting too.

We also had a very special assembly in the morning for a very special lady at Dens Road School. Mrs Neilson our Auxiliary was leaving and it was her last day. We made her a queen for the day and sang her some beautiful songs and told her about some of our memories of her at Dens Road. She has been at our school for 19 years!

Visit to the Gym

April 24, 2011 User deactivated 1 Comment

We are learning all about ourselves and keeping healthy. We will be looking at lots of different Health and Wellbeing experiences and outcomes from Curriculum for Excellence. We will be visiting different places in Dundee which can help us keep healthy. In the Active Learning Zone we will be setting up our own gym. We were very lucky because Ms Connor goes to Energie Fitness Clubs in Main Street and she organised for us to visit to see what it looks like in a gym.

We had to walk to to Main street and used all the things we learned during Walkwise lessons to help us. When were in the Gym P1a2 had Joe to help us and P1a1 had Craig to show us round. We saw reception, a small gym, the sauna and steam room, the big gym and the room with all the mirrors where they do classes. We were allowed to try out some of the machines and we took lots of pictures with the digital camera and lots of videos with the flip cam. We took a clip board and pencils and wrote down lots of things we saw to give us ideas on what we will put in our own gym.

When we were back in school we looked at all our photos and videos and made a list of all the things we would like to put in our Gym. Next week we will start to get our gym ready to work in. We have decided we will have a reception area and we will think about the exercises we can do in our gym because it won’t be big enough for lots a machines like Energie!

A big thank you to everyone at Energie Fitness Clubs for all their help.

Last week of term at Dens Road PS

April 1, 2011 User deactivated 4 Comments

This is our last week before our spring holidays. We have had a busy week as P1a2 had people from the BBC in using Talkie Time and filming the class. We also had a coffee afternoon which the P2 and P2/3 classes organised for fundraising for Mary’s Meals. We were also learning about time.

We have been learning about time by looking at clocks, playing matching games and playing games on the computer to help us. We have been talking about days of the week and months of the year. Here are some games which we played.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=941e6RnP4EQ&annotation_id=annotation_526124&feature=iv

http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/vocabulary/memoryaudio/days%20and%20actions/

http://roythezebra.com/reading-games/high-frequency-words-days.html

The P2 and P2/3 classes held a coffee morning and we had lots of parents and friends came along to it. We also sang some spring songs and everyone had tea, coffee, juice and biscuits. The P1’s sold raffle tickets as we were also raising money for Mary’s Meals. We raised over £100 with all the raffle tickets. We had lots of prizes like Easter eggs, Easter colouring books and skipping ropes. We drew all the prizes this morning and they were all given out. If you want to find our more about Mary’s Meals check out the link bel0w.

http://www.marysmeals.co.uk/

P1a2 were very lucky to be asked to help the BBC with their making of a programme called Talkie Time. Two lovely ladies called Karen and Ruth came into the class and showed us a clip with Rodd from Talkie Time and Miss Davies helped us with it. Then in the afternoon we looked at some they were about to make and we had to let them know what we thought of it. We loved having Karen and Ruth in our class.

Stay safe over the holidays boys and girls and we will see you back to school on Monday 18th April.

Games Based Learning with Yogi Bear

April 1, 2011 User deactivated Leave a comment

In Primary 1 we have been learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears in class. In the Active Learning Zone with Mrs Munro we have been using Yogi Bear to help us learn.

The Active Learning Zone has a Wii (from Mrs Munro’s house) and we have been using the Yogi Bear game from the recent film to help us learn in lots of different ways. The area was set up with comfy camping chairs and netting to make it look like a forest.

We were introduced to the game and we decided on rules when using the Wii. This is a one player game but we are allowed two people on it at a time. Only one person holds the Wii remotre. We take turns when playing it. We have to help each other. Collect cherry pies and watch out for porcupines. Our name was scored off on the list once we had a turn. But once everyone had a go then Mrs Munro cleaned off the name list and then we were allowed an0ther turn.

We were able to practise writing about Yogi bear at the writing table. The writing table was beside the Wii area so it was easy for us to go and write about Yogi after we had a turn. We wrote the names of the things we saw in the game and spoke to each other about it. We used the Yogi Bear writing card to help us with the words. There was paper with Yogi Bear drawings too that we could use.

We also liked to draw pictures and asked mrs Munro to display our work on the wall.

After a little while we were given a Yogi Bear book to write or draw our ideas and thoughts about Yogi Bear. What he did in the game and how we helped our friends. After we had a turn we would go with our partner and write or draw in the book together. This is some of our writing. This writing was written with very little or no support from an adult.