Well we wonder if you can imagine what we have started to learn a little about this week… Yes that’s right its been so much fun in the Active Learning Zone as we now have our very own weather tv station! We have a map of Scotland and we have a tv to watch our friends on as they tell us what the weather will be like for the day. We even have dresses and nice outfits to put on because after all- you never see people in school uniforms presenting the weather on BBC 1!

To get us started we watched a clip of lots of presenters telling us about the weather on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzA382t3uuk

Then to help us think lots and lots about what kind of weather we can have and the different seasons that happen in a year we played a listening activity, it was lots of fun and it reminded us a little of the listening work we did when we were ‘listening’ to our Baboon on the Moon film!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/stimulus-sounds-weather-audio/11547.html

We are going to be learning more about weather next week but we have had a lot of fun and are getting very good at being TV weather presenters and talking about the weather with lots of describing words.

We are sure you alread  know but there was an extra day in the year this year and on Feruary the 29th we took part in a huge blog challenge and we commented on what we had been doing at school that day. We were amazed that over 25000 classs and people also posted a blog!

If you want to comment on our post you can click the link below;

http://feb29th.net/tag/dens-road-primary-one/

Also this week it was World Book Day. We all brought in our favourite book and we each made a video blog where we said what was good about our book and why then we gave them a star rating. It was lots of fun! Mrs Mackay even brought in her own favourite book. It is called Flat Stanley and we knew that it was a very old story because the pictures were in black and white and the people were dressed differently from the way we dress now. We found out that the story of Flat Stanley is 48 years old ( but Mrs Mackay says she isn’t as old as the story)! What was your favourite book when you were our age?

Our teachers found out that lots of bookshops have special deals on because it is world book day and we were all looking forward to spending out £1 book token we got for World Book Day!

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/pages/waterstones-book-of-the-month/1188/

We are still learning all about The Baboon On The Moon and we have been looking at how well we could put his morning routine in the correct order using the Activexpressions. We had to think very carefully about what our answers would be and match them up to the answers on the Activexpression pads. We also thought carefully about our favourite scene and drew a picture with a speech bubble saying what we had drawn.

In number work we finished off our symmetry project and we started to look at addition again. To start we we practised our addition stories of 1 to 10. WE were really good and some of us were very creative with how to add up to 10.

The last exciting thing which happened to us this week was that Eilish McColgan came to visit us and tell us all about herself and the Olympics which will happen in London at the end of the summer. She was really nice and told us lots of interesting facts. We all got to ask her a question and our class asked her why she had spikes on her shoe that we saw on her blog. We had lots of ideas about why they might be there. Can you guess why she has them – if you guess – we will reply and tell you if you are right! We hope that she does really well in the Olympics and we will all be cheering her on!

Week Starting 5th March 2012

• P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
• P1a2 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
• P1a1 have music on Thursday afternoon.
• Book bags will go out on Friday this week, please read with your child and return it with them on Monday morning.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope £2.60 until the Easter Holiday. Thank you to those who have already paid.

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 weather.