counting | Dens Road Primary One

Welcome to our 2012- 2013 Primary 1 blog! It has been a VERY exciting week and we have all settled into big school life really well! When we came in some of us noticed that the room was a different colour because it was decorated in holidays. We were very excited to show our parents and families into our classroom on our first day and we soon settled into our school life.

We have been very busy learning and our teachers’ Mrs Munro and Mrs Mackay are very proud of us and super impressed with how well behaved and clever we all were. Every morning , we look at our special class clock to find out what we are going to do during our morning at school then we count how many days we have been to school and we work out what our special number for the day will be. Mrs Mackay played a game with us where she hid some of the numbers on our chart and we had to say which was missing and we were all fabulous.

We have also been learning some new Jolly Phonic sounds this week we have been learning s, a and t. We used the computer to match the sound to pictures, we learned the action for each sound and we sang a song for each one. It was lots of fun. We have all been practising writing the sounds on a sheet for our folio and on whiteboards. When we were in the Active Learning Zone we were having lots of fun making s, a and t art work too.

We all made some new friends this week. We met Kipper, Chip and Biff. They all have nick names and we had lots of fun learning all about them.

On Friday we all had our first school assembly. It was all about the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. We learned two new songs, one was about following the school rules and the other one was about being doing things that will make us proud of oursleves. When we were at assembly Wren got her special badge to show that she was our P1 Pupil Council Member and George got his special badge to show that he was our P1 Eco Council Member. On Thursday we had all talked about what being part of the Eco and Pupil councils meant and we had a vote to see who we wanted to represent us. We also found out that every time there is an assembly one of us would get a Star Award for something special we had done in class that week. This week Molly got a star award for trying hard and having very good listening ears all week. We are very proud of George, Wren and Molly and are looking forward to see who will be next to get a Star Award. Mrs Mackay and Mrs Munro were so proud of us for showing such good manners and behaviour at assembly that we all got a sticker too.

Week Starting 20th August 2012

We are still in for mornings only this week 9.00am – 12.15pm
Remember to bring your filled, named water bottle with you every day (no juice please)
We will begin to send homework out on a Thursday. Please send it to school every day but any tasks should be completed by 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 on a Wednesday night.

Next week we will be learning all about the story of Sleeping Beauty as part of our project.

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!

A Whole New World and there is a Kipper in it!

100 Days of School – Doesn’t Time Fly!