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100 Days of School – Doesn’t Time Fly!

February 8, 2012 User deactivated 3 Comments

Wow we can’t believe that it has been 100 days since we started school… but it has! On Monday we celebrated our 100 days of school.

The first thing we did was count all of our numbers on our number square then we added our last bear which said 100 and we all gave a cheer. Next we all took out our magic pencils and helped to write it on our chart. That got our celebrations off to a great start.

Next we counted out how far we could travel if we just used 100 steps. Mrs Bell helped us and we all went in different directions. It was so much fun that Mrs MacDonald even joined in and that helped us to see that the people with longer legs could travel the furthest.

We all took turns at seeing what models we could make with 100 bricks. Some people made a road, others made rockets and someone even managed to make a car. It was lots of fun and we had to plan what we wanted to make so that we didn’t run out of bricks.

When we were in our classes we had to use our brains to think of all of the words we knew how to write and spell. Our teachers asked us to think of 100 words, 50 words from P1a1 and 50 words from P1a2 because we learned that 50 + 50 = 100. We really amazed our teachers by thinking of some fantastic words and showing them we could write and spell them!

We decided that at a party the important person usually gets to wear a badge, Dylin in P1a2 got to wear a special badge this week because he got to be a big brother and he was very proud. We thought that we would make necklaces instead of badges and that we would wear them all day. They had all different patterns on them but all of them looked very special for the rest of the day.

We also made ourselves a 100 day hat. We counted how many rows there were on our number square and found out that there were 10 and each row had 10 numbers in it. We all took ten strips of paper and put ten spots on each strip and that all added up to 100 spots! We think they are pretty cool!

In the Active Learning Zone we made our centipede cake with Mrs Munro. It is very long and has 100 legs and 100 spots we are very proud of all our hard work.

In the afternoon we had our 100 Days Party! We played lots of games our favourites were 100 Corners which Aamir won and our 100 Pennies Treasure hunt! Mrs Mackay and Miss Davies hid 100 shiny pennies all over the hall and we all had to find them and fill in our 100 Near Square. It was lots of fun and got quite tricky but we all got there in the end. Once we had finished our party games we went downstairs to have our party food. Before we could eat anything we had to make the food into 100! Some of us used crisps and some of us used carrots and grapes. After we had finished our challenge we got to eat our food and have a slice of the delicious cake we made earlier.

It was a brilliant way to celebrate our 100th day of being at school!

Week Starting 13th February 2012

P1a1 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
P1a2 have music on Thursday afternoon.

The school will be closed Monday13th February. We hope you all enjoy the long weekend and we will see you on Tuesday 14th February.

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 learning about sharing in maths!

Mars, The Moon and Floating Through Space!

February 3, 2012 User deactivated 3 Comments

What a busy time we have had in Primary One this week. We have been learning lots more about space and astronauts! We have been learning lots about the Moon and we read a story called The Man In The Moon ( A Day In The Life Of Bob) it is all about the man who looks after the moon and the adventures he has during his day. We filled out a fact file page all about the moon and we thought it was very funny that there are craters (where the aliens in the story like to hide) and ‘seas’ on the moon which don’t have any water in them!

We have also been learning all about the planet Mars. We used the Microsoft World Wide Telescope to get an amazing look at Mars and Rory thought it looked a bit like a potato! We discovered that there is a North Pole on Mars and Aiden wondered if it has its own Santa Clause and if it did how he would breathe. We loved using the thermal seeking camera to look at the planet because we could see where it was cold and were it was hot. We were amazed to discover a volcano called Olympic Mons which was HUGE! Emily told us that it must be very hot because it was lots of different colours of red. Next we made posters all about Mars using lots of facts… Do you know why all the dust looks red on Mars?

We have been having lots of fun playing in our Space Stations which have docked in P1a1’s classroom and the Active Learning Zone and we are really looking forward to see the spaceship which is due to land in P1a2 classroom on Monday.

In maths we are still learning all about time but we have found out that there are two different types of clock. One type of clock has a big hand and a little hand this is called an analogue clock. We also learned about digital clocks. We thought about where we have seen these clocks and looked around to see where we could find them. We saw some on our families alarm clocks, radios, mobile phones, microwaves and videos… can you think of any more places you have seen digital clocks? We have been playing lots of fun games to help us match the o’clock on the written, analogue and digital clocks.

We are all looking forward to our 100 day party on Monday!

Week Starting 6th February 2012

P1a1 and P1a2 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.

The school will be closed on Thurday 9th, Friday 10th and Monday13th February. We hope you all enjoy the long weekend.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope £1 until the Mid February or £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 having our 100 Days of School Party!

Our Classrooms

March 25, 2011 User deactivated Leave a comment

The photographers for this week are Katie, Amy, Heather, Javeria, Zalanda, Lee, Asir, Kayleigh, Bethany and Ellis.

classroom (2) — Idris is a dragon who lives in our classroom.

classroom (3) — Benny likes lying in Idris' basket.

classroom (5) — These are the three bears who live in our cottage.

classroom (8) — We paint pictures of tricky words or Goldilocks and the thrree bears.

classroom (9) — At the playdough table we make tricky words.

classroom (7) — We go to the writing table and write about Idris and do tricky words.

classroom (6) — This is my Yogi Bear. We have been making sock puppets with stuffing.

classroom (12) — I like the toys in the sandpit and I like making sand castle.

classroom (11) — I like playing 'Wendy' in the Doll's House and I play with Kara.

classroom (10) — I like playing with the Three Bears Cottage.

Mrs Davies’ and Ms Lowden’s old bears

March 4, 2011 User deactivated 4 Comments

We have been learning about old toys and new toys.

Miss Davies mum has a teddy that is 59 years old. He is so old he only has a tiny bit of fur left on him.

When Mrs Davies was young she used to do operations on Teddy so he has lots of bits of him sewn up. Mrs Davies had to knit a special outfit for Teddy to protect him. He also has a pair of pants he wears!

Ms Lowden has a panda who is called Chi Chi. Chi Chi is 43 years old. She got Chi Chi for her very first Chrsitmas when she was a baby. Ms Lowden said that she has had to sew her Chi Chi because her dog used to chew it.

Sunshine Room

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We have a Sunshine Room where we learn about lots of things. Here are some of the things in our Sunshine Room. Our photographers this time were Samuel, Kacie, Sean, Jamie, Steven, Aiden, Javeria, Ross and Candy.

These are our windows. They are massive.

Here is our drawing and painting table.

This is our sink. We wash our hands here.

These are our paintbrushes. They are quite old. We use them at the paint easels.

This is old. This is where we get our hands dried.

This is the door to our Sunshine Room. It is old and made of wood. It has a little window in it and a handle.

This is the chair from the snack table.

This is the computer in the Sunshine Room. We like to play games.

This is the radiator. The radiator is old and has been painted.

100 Days of School!

February 18, 2011 User deactivated 7 Comments

On Wednesday we celebreated our 100th day of school. Every day that we come to school we added another number to our number square.

We planned our party and decided to have 100 themed party food and 100 activities and party games. We made hats with 100 spots.

The girls wanted to make necklaces……

…the boys wanted to make badges.

We made a caterpillar cake with 100 spots and 100 legs.

100 days 106 — We needed lots of icing for the 100 spots and 100 legs.

He was very cute!

100 days1 005 — Our yummy caterpillar cake.

We also iced cakes with 100’s and 1000’s.

100 days1 007 — Mmmm. Our iced cakes were tasty.

We played lots of games with a 100 theme including 100 coloured corners.

We also played pass the parcel. There were lots of winners and lots of prizes. We had a dancing competition and had four winners.

Then we went to eat our food. We had to make 100 on our plates with our food. We all tried to make 100 on our plates. Here are some of our numbers.

Some of us even tried different numbers with the party food.

We had a fab day celebrating our 100 days of school!

Chinese New Year

February 11, 2011 User deactivated 6 Comments

This week we have been learning through the Chinese New Year. In our classes we have a Chinese Restaurant where we took turns to serve meals to our friends. In the water tray we had noodles in the water. We had to try and pick the noodles up with chop sticks. It was really difficult! We made lovely Chinese lanterns which are up in our classroom. We also made an amazing Chinese Dragon on a huge display in the dinner hall. In the Active Learning Zone we played the memory game. We had to remember chop sticks, a rabbit (because it is the year of the rabbit), noodles, a Chinese dragon, Chinese lanterns and Chinese plates. We are able to play the memory game without an adult to help us now. We had adding homework with Chinese dragons to help us count. (Really sorry! Mrs Munro has forgotten to bring the camera home so the photographs won’t go on the blog until Tuesday.)

101_2666 — Dylan made a fab Chinese Dragon.

101_2555 — We had noodles in the water tray and had to pick them up with chip sticks.

101_2557 — Both classes had a Chinese Restaurant.

Thank you to all the parents who came to our Open Afternoon on Tuesday. It was really busy and it was so good to see you in school. The children were very excited about showing you around and letting you see all their learning.

Centenary Year Topic – On Wednesday 16th February P1 are going to celebrate their 100th day at school as part of our Curriculum for Excellence centenary year topic. This will include the children making party hats and decorations as well as playing some 100 themed party games. We will then enjoy 100 themed food which they will have helped prepare. This will include-

100 themed cakes – fairy cakes with 100 and 1000’s and caterpillar cake with 100 spots and 100 legs
100 shaped fruit and vegetables – carrot batons and melon balls
100 shaped crisps – salt and vinegar sticks, hula hoops and onion rings
diluting juice

Children are invited to bring party clothes in a bag to wear in the afternoon. There will be a charge of 100 pennies(£1) to take part in the celebrations.

Next week is going to be an exciting week!

Dens Road Gym Hall

February 4, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

We have also looked at our Gym hall. It is very old but has lots of newly painted walls. The photographers for the Gym Hall were Sean, Savanna, Amy, Chloe, Ellie and Aiden.

gym hall (1) — This is the doors to the Gym Hall.

gym hall (2) — This is our Gym Hall. It has very big windows.This is our ropes.

gym hall (5) — This is our climbing frame.This is our lights. They are special lights to keep us safe.

gym hall (7) — This is Mrs McMaster's rules wall.

gym hall (8) — These are our benches that we sit on.

gym hall (9) — This is our gym cupboard.

gym hall (10) — It is a very small cupboard and we are not allowed to go in it.

Dens Road Dinner Hall

February 4, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

This week we have looked at our Dinner Hall and all the things in it. We hope to be able to look at St Andrews PS dinner hall too. Our photographers for the Dinner Hall were Haroon, Abdul, Godsfavour, Julia, Chloe and Dylan.

dinner hall 1 — We have got lots of huge windows in our dinner hall. I wonder if St Andrews has big windows in their dinner hall.

dinner hall 2 — We have a cutlery trolley with lots of forks, knives and spoons.

dinner hall 4 — This is where we collect our drinks and get our salad.

dinner hall 5 — We have pictures on our wall. This is where we sit down to have our dinner.

dinner hall 6 — This is where we put our packed lunches.

dinner hall 7 — This is where we recycle our plastic bottles.

Dens Road School Reception

January 28, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

Our blog will be a little different for the next few weeks. We are learning about Old Schools and New Schools. We are very lucky because we will be making friends in another school called St Andrews Primary School in Dundee. They are a very new school. Their P1 classes are learning about Grannies and Grandads. We are going to compare our old school with their new school. Every week we will take photographs of different parts of our school and St Andrews will take photographs of their school. We will look at each others blogs and compare them to see the things that are the same and the things that are different.

Our photographers this week were Amy, Kacie, Jamie, Alisha, Rhys and Casey. We took photographs of the Reception Area.