Well, what a fabulously sunny spring week it has been in Primary One! We have been super busy walking, shopping and learning that our last week of term has flown in and we are now on holiday!

Primary 1a1 got to go and visit Lidl this week and were really excited after hearing about how good Primary 1a2’s visit was. We set off early with Mrs Munro and Ms Connor and had a good look around. It fun reading the items on the shopping list as well as finding how much it cost and if we had brought enough pennies to buy anything from our list. Some of the things were tricky to read and find but we managed to get them all and were amazed at how much we could buy with our money. The manager Scott let us see were they keep all of the items that are in the stockroom. That means they are not in the shop where people buy things but when the shop runs out of something Scott can fill it back up from the stock room. He also showed us where they watch to check that the shop is safe and where they keep all the money – we loved that! We were able to use what we have been learning in class to recognise what each coin or note was worth.

  

  

  

                 

Our teachers and all of the Primary 1 boys and girls would like to say a huge thank you to Lidl Stobswells and especially Scott who was really kind and helpful and helped us learn alot about people who help us in our community- THANK YOU! Some of us have drawn a picture of the shop and Scott the Manager and some of us have started to write a letter so our teachers can to give it to him when we finish them. 

We have also been learning more about how to stay safe when walking around our local area. We had to see what we could remember about road signs and ways to keep ourselves safe. We did really well at remembering what we had learnt last week and took more pictures of  the different crossings and road signs we saw.

  

In money we have been learning about the different ways we can pay using coins. First of all we had to sort them into the different colours, next we had to say what we thought each coin was worth and next we had to spend our coins to buy items from our teacher’s shopping bag. At first we thought it was very easy but it soon got harder! After that we have been learning all about the different ways we can pay for things using different coins.

  

  

Thursday was another super exciting day because not only did we have a trip in the morning but we had 3 visitors in the afternoon and one of them in particular made us all VERY excited!!!! At 11 o’clock we went to Gardyne Theatre at Dundee College, it was really cool, and we saw a show called Aesop’s Fables.

http://www.theatr-nanog.co.uk/productions/aesops-fables

http://www.dundeecollege.ac.uk/gardynetheatre

 It starred a mean Lion, a Mouse who needed to become a better friend and a Clever Tortoise.

  

We thought it had everything- it was funny and it taught us how to be kind, clever, never judge others and not to be ‘shellfish’ (as the Mouse said)! We talked about in class and decided we would give it 10 out of 10. Here are some of  our thoughts on it;

Aneel – “I liked the Lion because he scared everyone but he learned to be kind.”

Abigail – “I liked the Mouse and the Tortoise because the Tortoise came around everyone on the stage and the Tortoise won the race and the Mouse waved a flag. The Mouse was scared of the Lion and he was funny. Some of it was funny and some of it wasn’t but it was all good.”

Manahil- ” I liked the bit where the Lion roared and he was about to eat the Mouse but he became friends with the Tortoise and the Mouse but they shaked hands and it was funny.”

Demilade- “I liked it when there was a net on the Lion and the Mouse helped him even though he was mean.”

Scott- “I like just the Mouse because he was a great actor and l liked the running. The Lion wasn’t scary but lm happy about that and he was good.”

Aamir- ” I liked it. It was a funny one.”

John – ” It was good. I liked the Mouse when he woke the Lion up. I liked when they all became friends at the end. It’s good to be friends.”

Courtney- ” When they were running around in the race l liked it because the Lion should have won because it is fast but the Tortoise won.I liked the end of the race too when they woke the Lion up.”   

   

 

We all had a great time, including our teachers, and we would really like to thank the staff of Gardyne Theatre and Theatr-Nanog for inviting us to come and for being really helpful when we were there. We would also like to say a special thank you to Alan Dear and Marilyn Binnie who really helped us out with Loops and gave our teachers a book with some great work in it for us to do.

As if that wasn’t fantastic enough we also had a visit from Aly, Maureen and Hector (the Guide Dog)  from Guide Dogs (for the Blind).

http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/supportus/schools-and-clubs/guide-dogs-at-school/

It was brilliant. Ally and Maureen told us all about how to care for a dog, what a guide dogs job is and about all of the places they can go. Hector was so gentle and we all loved him. We learnt some amazing facts about what it means if the harness if up or down and we also found out that they go to school just like us!

  

Ally and Maureen also showed us lots of pictures of other guide dogs and we even saw some of their puppies too and Mrs Mackay even recognised a couple of people she knew with the dogs! We had a brilliant time and we learnt even more about people and animals who can help us in our community. We were SO amazed by Hector and the work he and other guide dogs do we are going to try to raise some money to help them as we discovered it cost £50000 to train and keep just one guide dog. We would also like to say a special thank you to Maureen and Ally for giving up their time to come in and see us and for the brilliant badges and bookmarks they gave us. THANK YOU.

  

Here are some of our thoughts after their visit;

Abdul Malik- “I think that the Guide Dog was cute. Guide dogs get taken to different places and they get treats too.”

Kayla-” I liked the dog because it was fluffy. They showed us the pictures of lots of different Guide Dogs and that was my favourite bit”.

Bethesda- “I liked the Guide Dog because they are beatiful and l think their jobs are beautiful and fabulous.”

Aamir- “I liked Hector he is a good dog. He is clever. He has four legs and he has got a tail.”

Piotr- ” The guide dog is clever.”

Abigail- ” I learned about petting dogs and not being scared of them. I learned about what they can do for the people who can’t see. I liked the badges and the bookmarks. Thank you.”

Tana- “I liked the guide dog and l liked the badges, thank you.”

Last of all was Primary 7’s Easter Eggstravaganza on Friday. There was loads of fun things to see and do and we helped them to raise money for their activity days. Some of our favourites we cake and candy, guess the age of the Easter Bunny, Fayre Games, Face Painting and Bingo!

  

We told you it was a really busy week! PHEW! We hope everyone has a Happy Easter and enjoys the holidays. We will see you you on the 16th April 2012.

Week Starting 16th April 2012

• We will 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 Friday 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. This means that we will not be giving out yellow or purple book bags for the first three weeks.

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 next topic is all about Pirates.