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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.

Scottish Week

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This week has been a really fun one in Primary 1 as we have been learning all about Scotland.  We started the week printing our own tartan which we think you will agree looks fantastic.  We even designed some tartan on the Promethean board.

   

We enjoyed listening to stories all about Hamish the Highland Cow, Katie Morag and The Loch Ness Monster.  We had a go at making Highland cows out of playdough.

We had lots of actvities to do at the writing table. Mr Haggis helped us to learn lots of things. 

  

We have been learning about Robert Burns and we are going to be having a poetry competition.  Primary 1a1 are learning a poem called Skatin by J.K. Annand and P1a2 are learning a poem called The Crocodile also by J.K. Annand.  Mrs McDonald will have the very tricky job of choosing a Primary 1 poetry competition winner.

On Friday we had a Fit Friday day.  In the afternoon the whole school got together to have a Highland Games.  Aamir, Bethesda, Abigail and Abdul Malik did us proud by takinhg part in lots of Scottish sports.  The hurled the haggis, tossed the wellie, leapt the burn and climbed a munro.

In the Active Learning we have been listening to Scottish music and learning some Scottish dancing.  Some of us even played instruments to go along with the dancing and music.

We have been learning how to tell the time this week.  We are getting really good at telling the time on analogue clocks and now know what o’clock it is.  Some of us even know half past times.  We enjoy using the clock fans to help us tell the time.

We are still practising adding up and Nessie helped us this week.

Week Starting 30th January 2012

  • P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym 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.

Friday 27th January will be a Fit Friday so please wear your sporty clothes to school all day.

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 learning about  the Moon and Astronauts!

Reading Partners, Earth and beyond…….

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This week we have been learning all about the planet Earth.  We learnt that it is millions of years old and that when it is seen from space it looks blue, green and white.  We made a fact file sheet.

We watched the NASA Junior films which helped us to see and learn lots of exciting facts about space.

We enjoyed the story of Noah and the Space Ark and had great fun making slatter paintings of space.  We even drew our own planets with chalk and blended them to look just like the real ones.  P1a1 made spaceships with Mrs McLean and the are now zooming round the classroom flown by aliens!!! P1a2 are really looking forward to making them next week.

  

This week we met our Primary 7 reading partners. We read them our reading books and showed them all the sounds we knew from our sound boooks, then the Primary 7’s read us a story from our story box. It was lots of fun! Primary 7 were really impressed at how well we could read and we were really impressed with them when they read us a story. We are looking forward to reading with them again.

In maths we are still adding up and we have doing lots of work on the stories of 6 and 7.

Week Starting 16th January 2012

  • P1a2 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a1 have gym 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.

Remember to return your gym bag and kit to school on Monday please.

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 learning about Chinese New Year.

Adding, rhyming and fun for Children in Need.

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We have been doing lots of adding up this week. It was a little bit tricky at first but we have had lots of fun and can now add up to the story of 3. We used the ladybird and dalmatian maths boxes to help us.

This week we began using our models of the Gruffalo characters to make a film. We worked in groups setting up our film sets, camera and tripod and next we will be recording the story using our voices.

  

We have used Pivot again this week and were able to add another Pivot character and make them dance. It was so funny watching each others sequences. We have also been using Hector’s world to help us learn how to stay safe when we are using computers.

  

We have used the Gruffalo story to help us learn all about rhyming words. Some of the rhyming words we found are mouse and house, wood and good, said and sped, claws and jaws, toes and nose and see and me.

   

We have had a Children in Need day at school to raise lots of money. This year the theme was Show Your Spots, Lets Raise Lots! We came to school wearing spotty clothes and had fun playing spotty bingo and the tuck shop had a yellow spotty theme.

Week Starting 21st November 2011

  • P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym 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.

Friday is FIT FRIDAY remember to wear sporty clothes for all our sporty activities.

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 how to add sound to our Gruffalo films.

Halloween, The Gruffalo, Pumpkins and Apples!

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What a fun and busy week we have had in Primary 1. On Monday we celebrated Halloween with lots of spooky activities in our classroom and the Active Learning Zone. In the afternoon we had a Halloween party with games and challenges.

We ducked for apples and with the left over ones we decided to measure how long we were in apples. We even got to measure Mrs McDonald our Head Teacher and found out that she is 2 apples longer than Mrs Mackay.

After measuring with apples we did a taste test to see if we liked red, green or red and green apples best. We enjoyed tasting the apples and recorded our results on a pictogram.

A pumpkin patch grew in our classrooms this week and we used tape measures to measure their circumference. It was a little bit tricky to measure the very big and very small ones but we worked with our learning partner. We recorded our results on our pumpkin measuring record sheets. We are going to have a go at measuring the circumference of lots of different things in the classroom.

We have been learning all about the Gruffalo. This week we watched the DVD of the Gruffalo and we loved it. We reread the story and then compared it to the film. We used Activexpressions to vote for our favourite. Primary 1a1 preferred the film to the book but Primary 1a2 liked the book and the film exactly the same.

Primary One got a postcard from our fish from last year saying that they were having such fun on holiday that they decided to stay on the sunny lake they were visiting. They have sent three of their friends who had heard how good we were at looking after fish to stay with us and we are very excited to have new class pets to look after. We voted on their names and finally settled on Rex, Buster and Fish.

We have been very busy in ICT this week too and have been learning how to use PIVOT. It is lots of fun and there have been lots of giggles while we make our Pivot Man do whatever we want him to. We even managed to get him to change colour and do lots of funny movements and dances.

We are all looking forward to Bonfire Night and enjoyed making bonfire and firework pictures this week. We will remember to stay safe on Bonfire Night.

Week Starting 7th November 2011

  • P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have no gym  this week due to In Service days.
  • There will be no book bags this week due to In Service days.

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 money the different coins we use.

REMEMBER TO HAVE FUN AND STAY SAFE ON BONFIRE NIGHT.

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.

A visitor to school

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Every day when we come into school we look at our wall to see how many days we have been coming to school. We have now been coming into school for 154 days! That’s a huge number. We have been practising our days of the week too.

We have also been finishing our checkups in maths. We have been showing our teachers if we have remembered all that we have been taught about adding. Some of us have been doing subtraction too.

We have been writing our news about the things we do at home and the things we like to play with in Mrs Munro’s Learning Zone.

Maja painted a picture at the easel and scratched a design of a bird in it. What a great picture Maja.

In P1a1 we have been listening to stories by Julia Donaldson. We can now recognise her stories and illustrations. We also listened to other stories but they were all rhyming stories. We have really loved them.

In P1a2 we have been continuing to have fun in our Baby Clinic. We have been filing out the by writing in the baby’s name, address, weight and length.

Last, but most important! We had a visitor to school this afternoon. Mrs Taylor in the nursery has got a puppy. We were very lucky as she brought it into school to let us see. Hayley is a chocolate brown Labrador. It was so cute! We are looking forward to Mrs Mackay bringing in her dog Lola.

Scottish Week

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In the Classes

This week we have had a Scottish Week. All our learning has been through lots of things to do with Scotland.

We used the Active Expressions to show our teachers what we know about Scotland. We had to remember what the Scottish flag looked like and Nessie!  

At the easels we have been painting Highland Cows.
We have been using Nessie the Loch Ness Monster to help us add.

For our homework we drew of picutre of Nessie too.
We got a story about Heather going on a Nessie Hunt and we had to remember what happened in the story and stick our pictures in the correct order.
We had art and painted tartan using cardboard strips to paint the stripes.
We made Highland cows by sticking.

 

We listened to stories about Hamish the Highland Cow.

 

On Thursday afternoon we had Highland Games when we played Hurl the Haggis, Leap the Burn, Pass the Hat, Flip the Claymore and many more! We all watched and some of our classmates were part of the team. We had a great time as we had to cheer on our House.

Our Scottish display.

In the Active Learning Zone

We have been continuing to learn about old toys and new toys. We have been having a great time and getting active on the PS2 playing with the eye toy and eye toy sports. We play Football Fever in pairs.

We have been learning about materials in different toys and fabrics. Click on the link to our movie with all the photographs we took with the microscope.

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Sounds, Shapes and Bugs

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Welcome to the end of week three for our P1’s. It’s been a busy week with parents joining us for a school lunch. And it was Elaine the Cook made yummy spaghetti bolognese!

Our latest Jolly Phonics sounds are c, k and e. We have been looking for things beginning with these sounds and playing memory games to test our brains.

In maths we have been sorting. We can sort things by colour and size and put them into groups. We have also been making patterns with beads and peg boards. Try asking us about shapes because we have learning about triangles, circles, squares and rectangles.

Look out for our entry at the Dundee Flower & Food Festival at Camperdown Park as we have put in a P1 entry. We had great fun with our first art lesson and made bees, ladybirds, caterpillars and butterflies.

Full time on Monday. Looking forward to being in school from 9am till 3.15pm.