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Old Toys and New Toys

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 In the Active Learning Zone this week we have been learning about Old Toys and New Toys. This has been helping us learn about in the past as our school is 100 years old. We have lots of different areas where we can choose to learn. At the computer area we have been sorting old toys and new toys. Try out the game here. http://www.museumeducation.bedford.gov.uk/bedfordbytes/toys/describing_toys.htm

 At the writing table we have been using lots of different things to help us write. At school 100 years ago the boys and girls used a blackboard called a slate and chalk. We use lots of things but we especially like using the whiteboards and pens and we even use Pictochat on the Nintendo DS.

A long time ago children used to play with a dolls house. We still love playing with the dolls house. We are learning to be friends with each other by being nice and sharing.

 

We have a railway area wih two railways. A wooden railway like the boys and girls used to play with a long time ago and a battery operated railway that makes great noises and stops and starts when you press the buttons.

When our school first opened  boys and girls were just beginning to play with teddy bears. We have a teddy bear picnic area where we can play with the bears and share and take turns with our friends.

In the library we have story books. Some children would have been lucky enought to have books to read. In our story corner we also have MP3 players to listen to stories.

 

When we are in the Active Learning Zone we use cameras and microphones to record our learning. We take photos to show we have been busy, recording our learning and sharing it with the other children.

Please leave a comment  to let us know what toy you liked to play with when you were young.

Old School New School

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This week we have been celebrating 100 years of Dens Road School. We had an assembly on Tuesday where we saw what it was like to be in school in 1911 when the school opened. We saw a classroom with slates and chalk and an abacus. And we saw a classroom like ours with Nintendo DS’ and interactive whiteboards. We like our classrooms. We did a mind map of what we would like to learn about schools. Check out the latest school blog which has extracts of the school log book 100 years ago. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dd/DensRoadSchool100Years/

 

We have been practising our Jolly Phonics sounds lots this week. We have been making 3 letter words in class. We play with the wedge and make words.

In our homework we have a new Blending Book so we can have lots of practise of blending our sounds together. The more we practise, the better we get!

In maths we are learning to add things together. We are really good at it already. We have used our Ladybird Maths Box to help us.

 

We also practise writing numbers on our whiteboards. We completed our first adding sheet in the class and Mrs Mackay and Miss Davies will be putting them into our Folio of Work for P1.

Happy New Year 2011

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It’s great to be back after the holidays. We told all our friends what we got from Santa and what we did in the holidays. We wrote a story and drew a picture too.
We have been practising counting numbers. Everyday we add a number to our number square. We are now at 74 days we have been at school. We will be beginning to plan our 100 days at school party soon.
We are celebrating 100 years of Dens Road School this year. The Dens Road School 100 Years Blog will be starting very soon. So keep up to date with everything that happened from when the school opened in 1911 here. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dd/DensRoadSchool100Years/
We have been learning songs for our 100 Years assembly on Tuesday. Remember if you want to come along please contact the school office.
Just a reminder – fruit money of £1.20 is now due for the first six weeks of this term. Please hand in as soon as possible. Thank you

The Sleepy Shepherd and Santa Glow Meet

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What a week we have had with lots of rehearsals for The Sleepy Shepherd Christmas Show. We finally got to put on our costumes and go on the stage on Thursday morning for our dress rehearsal. It was really good fun. Then came the time when all our parents and carers watched us. We even painted our faces like sheep too. We were all so nervous, but we all had a great time. We sang our songs really well and all our teachers were so proud of us.

This morning we have just taken part in a Santa Glow Meet with hundreds for children all over Scotland. Santa was on our screens and answered lots of questions we had been talking to our teachers about. Like, How do reindeer fly?, and, What happens if there is no chimney?. Santa was really excited and seems to have lots of energy left!

If you came to see our The Sleepy Shepherd Christmas show please leave a comment for us to read in class. Thank you!

Roll Up, Roll Up – The Sleepy Shepherd is in town

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We have been busy practising our parts for the Sleepy Shepherd show. We have  been making advertising posters to put up all around our school.

Have a look at our creative art work and see if we can draw you into our spectacular show. Please contact the school office for tickets. First come, first serve.

Remember-

To be a sheep we must have a long white t-shirt, thick white tights and two pairs of black socks.

Christmas Fayre

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This week we have had lots to catch up on with our missed week of school because of the snow. We had to finish all our  products for the Christmas Fayre and lots of Christmas Show practise too.

The Christmas Fayre was yesterday. Lots of mummies, daddies, grannies and grandads came along to drink tea and coffee, eat biscuits and buy lots of goodies. There was a cake and candy stall, toys and books stall, and every class had their own Christmas crafts to sell.

We made lots of money to help the school.

Please remember to bring in your sheep outfit for the show which includes a long white t-shirt, a pair of thick white tights and two pairs of black socks. We need these in by Tuesday!

We have been learning about the Gingerbread Man too. We have a Gingerbread Man Factory which is our playdough table, a Gingerbread Man shop to sell our Gingerbread men and a Gingerbread Man Cafe.

#snowday5

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Hello boys and girls of P1.
We cannot believe that we are still off school with the snow.
If you have been playing out in the snow please leave a comment to tell everyone about it.
Here are some more games to play to keep you busy.

Click on the link to play some of these games. Play Compare and Order, String of Beads and Fish Tank. This will help with your Maths.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

Listen to this shape song.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-2d-shape-song/3121.html

And then try this shape matching game.

http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/match_up/shape_match/shape_match.htm

Play CVC Maker to practise making some words with the sounds you know.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html

Play this sound game to practise putting the middle sounds into words.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/phonics/fs.shtml

Play a Magic Key Oxford Reading Tree Game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/soundmonster_gamefs.shtml

Can you remember about all the characters in our reading books?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/characters_nonjs.shtml

Fingers crossed we are all back to school on Monday!

SNOW – SNOW – SNOW

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We have been off school for three days now.
Are you getting bored yet?
Here are some things to keep you busy.
• Build a snowman – Give him a big body and a small head. Give him 10 stones for a mouth.
• Make 5 snow angels.
• Do 7 star jumps in the snow.
• Look out the window. What colours can you see?
• Draw a scarf with a pattern. Colour it with two colours.

We will be reading The Gingerbread Man when you come back to school. Try some of these websites-
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/stories/gingerbread.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/misc/stories/thegingerbreadman/
http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/gingerbread/play.htm?fhttp://mathwire.com/seasonal/rungbman.pdf
http://www.safeway.com/ifl/grocery/Holiday-Game#iframetop
Have fun and stay safe!

If you have any brothers or sisters who have a GLOW login ask them to log into Glow to access lots of Snow, Winter and Christmas activities which have been added to the P4-7 home page….

https://secure.glowscotland.org.uk/login/login.asp

Glow Meet with Manfred the Baddie

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Another busy week in P1! Song practise continues for the Sleepy Shepherd Christmas show.

We are learning to-

  • recognise shapes and make pictures with them
  • write an invitation
  • sing our Sleepy Shepherd songs

Our main focus this week has been preparing for the Christmas Fayre next Friday. We have made lots of lovely things for parents to buy for Christmas.  We have made Snowflake Candle Holders, Jewelled Photoframes (watch out for the special surprise inside them!) and painted Trinket Boxes. We will also be finishing off mugs with special photographs as well.

Jewelled Photoframe
Snowflake Candleholder
Painted Trinket Box

We also made invitations to give to someone to come to the Christmas Fayre on Friday 3rd December.

Christmas Fayre Invitation
Christmas Fayre Invitation

We have been working hard with our blending. Spelling three letter words and trying to sound out words. We have been reading our Oxford Reading Tree books too.

In maths we have been learning about shapes. We made pictures of houses and people with 2D shapes. Lots of us went to the making table to draw and cut out shapes and make more pictures.

P1 children across Scotland will be getting a book called ‘Manfred the Baddie’ from the Scottish Book Trust and a message from Bookbug. This year’s chosen book was written and illustrated by John Fardell and won the 0-7 age category of the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children’s Books. 

On Thursday John Fardell held a ‘Glow Meet’ session with lots of P1 children across Scotland to tell them all about the book. We took part in the Glow Meet (video conferencing) and watched as John told us the story and showed us his illustrations. It was very exciting and Mrs Mackay even left a message! John also showed us how he drew his character, Manfred and we drew some ‘BADDIES’ of our own!

Our Active Learning Zone is changing. Mrs Munro was very busy on Friday afternoon moving things about and there are lots of new things to try out. Watch this space to find out what our next story will be and what we will get up to!

The Gruffalo – Characters

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We have been studying the Gruffalo even more. We have looked at all the things that make him a good character. We looked at the book and remembered his purple prickles, terrible teeth in his terrible jaw and his black tongue. We has to make our own character and had to think of lots of things it would need. Look at our pictures of our drawings.

We have been practising our Jolly Phonics sounds and trying to blend them together to read and write three letter words. We have been looking at our Oxford Reading Tree books and trying to perdict what will happen next in our stories.

In maths we have been continuing to look at pictograms. We made pictograms of fruit and we knew which fruit was the most popular. We also have been working with size. We looked at the characters from our Gruffalo story and thought about which was the tallest, shortest and narrowest. We used the Active Expressions to help us record our answers. We had to think about how the characters made us feel and we also had to choose our most favourite character in the story. Here are the results from our voting.

We have been learning songs for our Chirstmas Show, The Sleepy Shepherd. We have been using our super singing voices. Watch out for more information coming soon.

Please remember to leave a comment. The children have been so excited to read your comments about their learning.