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We read a story and everyone fell asleep for 100 years!

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This has been our first full week of part time P1 and we are all feeling pretty tired but not as tired as Sleeping Beauty! This week  we started our new topic of Sleeping Beauty. We read three stories and they all had the same title of Sleeping Beauty on the the cover but we noticed that the illustrator was different on each one and the story was a little different too. We discovered that the first story had a forest grow up around the castle, the next story had thorny bushes grow up all around the castle and the third story was very special because even though its title was  Sleeping Beauty, it had Biff, Chip, Kipper, their Dad and their friend Wilma in it! We had to put our ‘thinking hats’ on  and talked with our teachers about the similarities and differences- they were very impressed with us!

   

We are still counting our days at school every morning and some of us are getting very good at talking about the numbers that are before and after the number we are putting up. We were amazed to see that wewhen we counted our number on Friday morning we had been at school for 9 days! We checked it against our rabbit number line ( they bring us a carrot for every day we are at school) and it was right!! We are also getting very good at moving the hand on our classroom clock to show what activities we are working on. We like looking at it in the morning when we come in because it helps us to know what we are doing and we can talk about the exciting things we will be doing. Our teacher, Mrs Mackay, says it is helping us learn about time too even though there are no numbers on the clock but we are sure that we will find out more about that soon.

  

Ms Gauld. our Healthy Eating Assistant, came to visit our class this week. She told us how to wash our hands properly to stay healthy. We were very good at listening to her and giving her ideas of when and why we should we wash our hands. We decided that there were five times we must wash our hands;

  1. After we go to the toilet.
  2. Before we eat anything.
  3. After we have touched an animal, even our pets.
  4. After we cough or sneeze.
  5. After we have been playing outside.

After we made our list Ms Gauld introduced us to Handy. He was a Hand Washing Helper and he told us if our list was right- and it was! He showed us what to do and what we would need, just like Ms Gauld and he even taught us a hand washing song. After that we all had a practise and Ms Gauld and Mrs Mackay said we were good enough that we could get one Handys special stickers!

 

  

  

We have been learning even more sounds this week. This week we learnt p, i and n and in the active learning zone and the classroom we have been practising using them to make words, finding them in words and writing them. We are getting really good and we even took our sound books home as part of our homework this week so that we can teach our families the sounds, their actions and their songs.We have also been enjoying using the iPad to play games all about our sounds.

  

 

In the Active Learning Zone there have been lots of new areas to investigate and learn in. One of our favourites this week has been the science table. We have been investigating different objects and shiny things. We know what to do when we are there because Walt is there to tell us what we are learning.

All through the week we have all had a shot at playing a really fun game called PIPs. It helps our teachers see what we know and we all thought it was lots of fun! We had to do some counting, say what some sounds were, find some items in a picture and lots more fun things!

Week Starting 27th 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 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.
  • DC Thomsons will be coming to take our photograph for the paper on Thursday 30th August. We will let you know when it is going to be in the paper.
  • We are going to be in school fulltime from Monday 3rd September 2012

Our project is Sleeping Beauty.

This week we will be learning the Swahili  song Jambo so that we can sing it for our visitors next month.

 

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

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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.

News Alert – Primary One are Authors!

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There has been alot of excitement in primary one because we are writing our own book! We have been thinking very carefully about all of the different things we have learnt over the past term and our teachers were really amazed! WE KNOW LOTS!!!!! First of all we made a flipchart on the computer and gave each subject a page of its own then we gave each page a title. Next, we looked at what facts the readers would want to know about all of the areas in the book – that was tricky because we know so much! After that we designed the title cards and illustrations for our book. We wrote a blurb which is very important beacuse it is how you know if you will like a book and tells you what it is about. We still have to make our contents page and our covers but we have a great title for our book and can’t wait to make them next week and publish it- we are sure that it will be a best seller!

  

  

 

In the Active Learning Zone we have been wowing our teachers with how good we are at reading and using the iPad. We have been using an app called QuickQuote and we have read stories all by ourself recorded them on one for our iPads. We hope to have them here for you to listen to soon because they are really good.

Week Starting 19th March 2012

  • P1a2 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • P1a1 have music 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.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Please remember to return your child’s summer trip and theatre trip letters as soon as a possible.

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.

Next week we will be making our space book and exploring our local area.

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.

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.

We met Floppy

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This week we have been learning some new sounds. We have been practising writing them at the writing table. We have also been writing our names. We love writing them on the aqua mats.

In our reading we have been learning about more of our Oxford Reading Tree characters. This week we met Floppy. Floppy is a dog. We also used the Magic Page and read books on the Promethean Board. We listened to At School and The Lost Teddy.

In our maths we have been learning about shapes and numbers. We have been counting and practising writing numbers.

We have been enjoying playing more with Sleeping Beauty. We have been drawing pictures of the characters of Sleeping Beauty. Some of us drew Sleeping Beauty, some drew the good fairy, the bad fairy, the prince, the king and the queen. Some of us even drew pictures of the spindle.

We have been playing at Sleeping Beauty in our classroom and Mrs Munro’s Learning Zone. We made pictures of a castle with shapes, made a castle with a thorny hedge all around and have been playing in Sleeping Beauty’s bedroom. We also have a floor book all about our learning through Sleeping Beauty.

We have been talking about Eid. Manahil had a beautiful henna pattern on her arm to celebrate Eid.

We also put in an entry to the Dundee Flower Festival. We made birds with feathers. We won a third place!

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.

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!

Last week of first term

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A great start to school for our P1s. They have settled into school really well, can follow instructions and have been learning about our school rules. It’s good to be green. They have all been successful learners. They confidently take part in all school life.

Both classes have been looking at our Oxford Reading Tree stories again in the last week and have been learning all about Mum, Dad, Kipper, Biff, Chip and Floppy. They have loved the stories At School and The Lost Teddy.

We have been learning more Jolly Phonics sounds and so far have learned 25! We keep practising these sounds all the time so we can remember them and use them when we start to read and write.

We used the microscope to look closely at conkers and fir cones and took pictures of them. We have made lots of art work eg. paper art trees and paintings of trees to help us remember about the signs of Autumn.

During play we have practised writing our numbers. We have continued to make patterns and look for shapes in the world around us.

Lastly, on the last day of term, we used Active Expressions for the first time. We used these to see how well we had remembered our numbers and shapes this term.

Thank you to all P1s and parents and carers for a fantastic first term. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Autumn is coming

We have all had a good week this week. We have learned lots of new Jolly Phonics sounds and we are practising them every day.
We have been reading our Oxford Reading Tree books. P1a1 have been reading The Lost Teddy and P1a2 have been reading At School. We have enjoyed using the Promethean Board to look at our stories using the Magic Page.
In Maths we have trying to remember what our numbers up to ten look like, trying to write them and to count up to ten things. We made ten green bottles at our Making Table and will be playing with them next week.
We have been talking about harvest and Autumn. We have been playing with conkers, leaves and fir cones and talking about the changes we will see outside. We have been investigating Autumn things through the microscope. We made finger print trees in art and during our ICT lesson we drew a tree in Textease paint and used the stamper tool to add leaves.