Monthly Archives: May 2012

Jack – It’s ‘bean’ a while!

We are learning about Jack and the Beanstalk .

Both classes have done a fantastic plan and had lots of ideas of things we know already and things we would like to learn about.     

                                

We now have a Giant’s castle complete with the Giant’s handwriting book, a Giant’s table and the Giant’s cooker.

   

We also have a HUGE beanstalk and we had to make lots and lots of leaves for it.

   

We are super excited about our assembly and have been practising a lot! Some of us have a script and words to say. We all made an invitation to  ask someone to come along to our assembly.

   

We have been continuing with some wonderful homework tasks.

                             

NEXT WEEK

  • We all have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • We will have a new way of doing homework this term. All homework will be given out on a Thurdsay and is due back on a Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of 3.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they returned their clean shorts, t-shirts and gym shoes (some of us have grown a little so please check that they still fit) and have no jewellery on. Also, please tie up long hair. Thank you.

Please remember to return your child’s summer trip as soon as a possible.

Our topic is all about Jack and the Beanstalk.

What sport do pirates like? Arrrrrrrrrm wrestling!

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This has been a very busy week so its just as well we have been learning all about co-ordinates or else we would have gotten lost! First of all we got another present from our friendly pirate, Pirate Pete. There was a big box with a letter and a visitor inside…. it was Pirate the Parrot. We listened to a story where he was part of the ships crew! We have learnt that he is a Scarlet Macaw and he will stay with us as long as we promised Pirate Pete that we would look after him. We were even more excited to hear that Pirate the Parrot would go and visit Pirate Pete at the weekend when we were at home with our families so we have left a window open so he can fly in and out… Pirate Pete’s letter also said that if Pirate the Parrot is happy in our class she might even bring some of her friends to visit us too!

We have been having ever such a fab time in the Active Learning Zone making lots of treasure maps. These have been really detailed and we have been building on what we have been doing by learning all about co-ordinates. We had a grid with lots of pirate pictures on it and we had to work out what grid they were in. We thought it was tricky but we all did really well. We have also been making our pictures of pirate ships on the Promethean Board and with the big bricks. We are really pleased with our work.

  

We are still learning all about subtraction and have been practising trying to work out missing number subtraction. It was very different from working out normal subtraction and some of us thought that it was a bit like trying to solve a problem.

We have been thinking about different ways to think! Mrs Munro introduced us to some thinking flowers. We recognised the triangle from the one that our teachers have on their walls and we discovered that the flowers were the same colour as the bands of the pyramid. Each of the colours meant we had to think in a different way… it was so much fun and we got fab answers when we thought about a story we had been reading. We can’t wait to use them again!

  

On Wednesday Tony the Minister came to see us. He told us a great story all about how God made the world and about what different people believe. It was really interesting and we are really looking forward to his next visit.

On Friday we got a a surprise when a story bag arrived in our class. It had lots of exciting things which made us think about what story they could be from. When the bag was empty we decided that the story was ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and that we would like to do a project about it. We also read  the story and the book was very special because it had dots in it which we could put a magic pen on and it told us the story in English and if we touched a different dot it read the story to us in Polish. It was lots of fun and we really liked listening to it in a different language!

  

  

   

Week Starting Monday 21st  May 2012

THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY AS IT IS A HOLIDAY

  • We all have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • We will have a new way of doing homework this term. All homework will be given out on a Thurdsay and is due back on a Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of 3.
  • THE SCHOOL IS CLOSED ON FRIDAY FOR INSET TRAINING.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they returned their clean shorts, t-shirts and gym shoes (some of us have grown a little so please check that they still fit) and have no jewellery on. Also, please tie up long hair. Thank you.

Please remember to return your child’s summer trip as soon as a possible.

Our topic is all about Jack and the Beanstalk.

Why can’t the pirate answer his phone? It’s off the hook!

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Ahoy there me mateys. We have been having a great old time even though we are all landlubbers! We have been learning lots and lots about pirates and money this week with our teachers and in the sunshine room they have been learning all about plants too!

   

Some of us go to the sunshine room in the morning. It is lots of fun and we show each other lovely manners and we learn lots of exciting new things. Over the last few weeks we have been learning about plants and growing because when it was spring we saw lots of new things growing and changing around us. We thought that it was so interesting that we even made a garden centre in our Sunshine room to help us to talk about and learn more about plants- we even have some real ones!                           

    

All of us have been learning about money and we have got a bank in our Active Learning Zone and we have been making our own shops with things around us in our classrooms where we have to put a price on things and sell them to our friends. It has been lots of fun and we have been learning that there are lots of different ways you can use money.

                              

In number work we have also been learning all about subtraction! We are so clever that we can take away to find the missing answer as  well as find the missing number if it is in the sum itself! Some of use even noticed that if we used the numbers to add we got the first number!

  

We have been reading lots of exciting pirate stories and we have picked our favourite four!

  

We are all looking forward to voting next week on which is our favourite one!

We have also been making pirate chest with Mrs McLean. We think that pirtaes would love to steal them because the treasure is so sparkly.

 

Week Starting Tuesday 14th May 2012

 

  • We all have gym on Wednesday afternoon- long hair tied up and NO earrings please.
  • We will have a new way of doing homework this term. All homework will be given out on a Thurdsay and is due back on a Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of 4.
  • Mrs Smith is visiting us on Monday morning.
  • Tony the Minister is visiting us on Wednesday morning.
  • P1a1 have paired reading on Tuesday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have paired reading on Friday morning.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they returned their clean shorts, t-shirts and gym shoes (some of us have grown a little so please check that they still fit) and have no jewellery on. Also, please tie up long hair. Thank you.

Please remember to return your child’s summer trip as soon as a possible.

Our topic is Pirates. We will be learning about coordinates this week(there’s treasure on there maps me ‘arties!).

What is a Pirates favourite subject at school? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrt

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This week we have been feeling very creative! We were very excited when we got a parcel from Prirate Pete. He had heard that we have been learning all about Pirates and he thought we were very clever to be able to label in our writing activities so he sent us a present. He posted us a real life treasure chest all the way from his pirate ship. He even gave us some pirate treasure!  We were fascinated to find out more about him and so he sent us a model of himself for us! We think that it was so kind of him.

   

We have been learning a pirate song about the adventures of a young  pirate. We thought it was funny because our teachers said that they learnt it when they were at school! You can watch it by clicking on the link. http://youtu.be/_qAngsMJD3I

In number work we have been learning all about subtraction and we are getting rather good at it! We can now do some pretty tricky take away sums with our cubes and we even managed to do some in our heads. Our teachers found a special pirate who is very good at taking away and he sang us a song to help us practise. http://youtu.be/v9dx2o7m6GI

We have been enjoying playing in our role play areas and have made some beautiful art work and displays. Our teachers have also been reading us some fabulous pirate stories about children at school who have pirate adventures but with some very unusual pirates- THEY’RE PIRATE DINOSAURS! We like them and think it is great that the main character is called Captain Flinn and we have a Flynn in our class!  

  

                  

These have really got our imaginations going and we have put some of  our ideas into our own pirate stories. First of all we wrote our ideas out on a white board. Then we wrote them on a sheet so that we could make a pirate adventure story book. We had fun illustrating our stories.

                       

 

We have been creating some amazing homework from  our Challenge Grids. Here are some images of what people have made so far!

  

  

Week Starting Tuesday 8th  May 2012

THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY AS IT IS A HOLIDAY

  • We all have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • We will have a new way of doing homework this term. All homework will be given out on a Thurdsay and is due back on a Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of 3.
  • There will be no homework for Primary 1 on Tuesday or Wednesday.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they returned their clean shorts, t-shirts and gym shoes (some of us have grown a little so please check that they still fit) and have no jewellery on. Also, please tie up long hair. Thank you.

Please remember to return your child’s summer trip as soon as a possible.

Our topic is all about the Creation Story.