Monthly Archives: October 2011

Our DCA Visit and More!

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What a busy week we have had!

Our learning in maths this week has been to match numbers to number words. We will be continuing to learn about this over the next few weeks.

We have been practising our sounds and continuing to try and sound out, blend and write three letter words.

This week we listened to a story called the Grufflao. We have decided that this will be our next topic. Both classes made a plan. We had lots of ideas!

We have started with a Deep Dark Wood in our classrooms and in the Active Learning Zone. We are going to pretend to be the characters from the story. We have a book to draw and write about our adventures in the Deep Dark Wood.

On Wednesday we talked about Diwali. This is the Hindu Festival of Light. We listened to the story of Rama and Sita. You can read it here. http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/re/b-dag/ngfl-container/re-unit3-en.html Then we drew some Rangoli patterns and some Mehndi designs.

On Thursday we visited the DCA in Dundee. It has a cinema and we went to see Film Shorts for Wee Ones. We went on the bus and there were lots of balloons on the stairs to show us where to go. We sat in a cinema and watched lots of little films about all different things. We got a poster to take home.

When we got back to school we had to think about which film was our favourite. We all had to tell our teacher and our friends about the film. This is what we said….

Rory said “The thunder and lightening one was the best. When the man threw the phone and the lightening came.”

Nathan said “I liked the clooud. His head went to thunder and the whole house went on fire.”

Aiden said “I like the acorn film, It was funny when his hat fell off and he was in the bee’s house.”

Demilade said “I liked ALL the films! My favourite one was the cloud one because it’s so funny and I also liked the one with the acron. I liked it when he fell down.”

Ellie said “I liked the film with the little girl drawing people. It was funny.”

Flynn said “I liked the film with the dragon because the little boy ate the dragon.”

Brandon said “I liked the one when the boy put his head off. It was funny.”

Kayla said “I like the star film because the little girl got a star.”

On Friday we had a Fit Friday. Here is our Fit Friday timetables…

We had Rugby, Fruit tasting with Ms Gauld, Playground Games, Circuit Training, Basic Moves and a Judo session. They were all fab.

In our classrooms we also learned about parts of our body. P1a1 learned about the face and P1a2 looked at a skeleton. We talked about what all the parts of the body are called.

Week Starting 31st October 2011

  • P1a1 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • Remember to bring your Halloween costume in a bag on Monday.
  • Book bags will be issued on Friday. Please read the book with your child over the weekend and return it to school on Monday morning.

Halloween party on Monday afternoon. Remember you costume and 30p for the Spooky Tuck Shop.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning about The Gruffalo and how the book and the film are the same or different.

Measuring Up At The End Of Term One

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This week we have been investigating and learning all about measuring. We have been looking at things that are long and things that are short. We had to sort out pictures on the promeathan board by thinking about which group they belonged to and if they were long or short and tall or small. Next, we had to investigate in our classrooms and see which things we could sort into these groups. It was lots of fun. In the Active Learning Zone we have been busy learning all length too. We had to measure how tall we were on the height chart and then had to mark our height on it with a post it note to see who was the tallest and smallest. We also had lots of fun measure the height or length of different pictures using cubes.

  

 

We are very proud of ourselves that we have now learnt all of our initial Jolly Phonic sounds. We have really enjoyed learning the sounds, names and actions but our favourite way to learn them has been by singing the songs which go with them, We are really good at remembering them and we can use all the sounds which we know to write short words. We are looking forward to learning our Jolly Phonic blends after the holidays.

  

In ICT we have been busy making pictures of the different characters from Sleeping Beauty. We had to use the start menu and select the Textease Paint icon. Next, we had to change the size of brush we were using and then use the colours which match the character we were going to create. It was tricky to control the mouse but we all tried really hard and got some fabulous results!

  

  

We hope that you have all enjoyed reading about what we have been doing during our first term of Primary One and we will see you all in two weeks when we return from our holiday.

Week Starting 24th October 2011

  • P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
  • Remember to return your permission slips and money for our trip to the DCA Film Festival.
  • Book bags will be issued on  Friday. Please read the book with your child over the weekend and return it to school on Monday morning.

We have our Film Festival trip to DCA on Thursday.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

After the holidays we will be learning about The Gruffalo.

Beginning, Middle and End

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This week we have been learning all about the beginning, middle and end of stories. First of all, we watched the Sleeping Beauty DVD and though carefully about what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the film. Next, we looked at a sheet of pictures which showed scenes from the film. We had to pick the one which showed the most important scene from the beginning, the middle and the end. Once we had done that we then cut them out and stuck them onto our sequencing card. It was lots of fun and we all did very well.

  

We have been using our numeracy areas alot this week. When it is choosing time we have been using all of the things in it to investigate lots of number work, patterns, measuring and sorting.  We have also been playing lots of games to help us remember the characters in our reading books. Primary 1a2 have been playing a game to help them sound out simple words by listening for the start, middle and end sounds. They had lots of fun and Primary1a1 are looking forward to playing it next week.

      

We are really enjoying our Sleeping Beauty project and we all enjoy playing in the Sleeping Beauty’s castle and in her Bedroom in the Active Learning Zone. We have been making pictures of the Prince who comes to awaken everyone in the castle. We had to match the shapes to the picture and stick them down. We think they look really shiny and very brave! In the Active Learning Zone we have been busy making paper plate pictures of ourselves, characters from Sleeping Beauty and some of us even made Aliens!

 

  

Week Starting 3rd October 2011

  • P1a1 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
  • Remember to return your permission slips and money for our trip to the DCA Film Festival.
  • Book bags will be now issued on a Friday. Please read the book with your child over the weekend and return it to school on Monday morning.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning about length.