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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.

Jack, something is growing outside your window!

June 1, 2012 User deactivated 1 Comment

Well some very exciting things have been going on this week – we have been learning lots more about our Jack and the Beanstalk story and project. Our assembly is very soon so we have been listening carefully and we evern have a special pen which reads the story in Polish and English. Our assembly has been going well and we are getting very good at using our BIG voices to make sure that everyone will be able to hear our performance. We have also been thinking carefully about how we stand and making sure that we always face our audience so that everyone can hear us… It has been very exciting and we can’t wait to share our hard work with our school and families.

We have been meeting some of the nursery boys and girls who will be taking our place in Primary One next year as we are getting so big we will be in Primary Two soon. Here is a link to see what they have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk.

https://wikis.glowscotland.org.uk/0003321/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk_Pre-school

We have had some amazing homework projects going on recently and now we have beanstalks in our classrooms! Ellie, Alexander, Aiden and John have all build their own beanstalks – all complete with their own Jack and Giants. All the teachers were amazed and impressed and Mrs McDonald even gave them a Head Teacher award! We have put them in our classrooms where something has been growing too!

After we created our topic plans with our teachers we started to put our garden centres together. P1a2 decided that they wanted to call their garden centre Dibbies because some of us had been to Dobbies and we thought it sounded like that name but it was a but different. We have put lots of things into our centres and have had fun making labels and price tags for things.

In the Active Learning Zone we have been busy planning to have a shop. We have had to think about what we would like in our shop, who would work their and what skills they would need to have. It was lots of fun and we can’t wait to see what we will create when we apply what we have been designing!

We are still learning about and using money in our Garden Centres, numeracy areas and the Active Learning Zone. We have been looking at different notes and have been making our own money! Our teachers said if we could use it we would be VERY rich!

In Primary 1a2 Pirate Pete and Pirate the Parrot invited a friend to visit us which was a lovely surprise! Pirate the Parrot had been a bit lonely so he invited his best friend Tallulah the Toucan to come and visit us. She flew in our classroom window at the weekend and we knew that she was here to stay for a while because she even had her own suitcase. Some of the Busy Bees recognised the word ‘fragile’ on her case from their reading book. Tallulah said that she had flown across from the other side of the island our Smugglers Cave is on and that she had seen an amazing sight – A GIANT BEANSTALK! It was going all the way from the back of the cave in our classroom to the other side of ‘island’ in the Active Learning Zone. We can’t wait to see if she has been having any adventures after the weekend…

On Tuesday, Tony the Minister came to visit us. He has been telling us some stories from the Bible. This week he was telling us about Noah and his Ark. We thought it was a brilliant story and lots of us have been drawing pictures of the animals, the ark, Mr and Mrs Noah and the rainbow that God sent to show that the rain had ended, Dylin even made a brilliant model with his family as part of his homework challenge. Abdul Malik and Abigail knew how rainbows were made and lots of us had seen them but none of us had seen an Ark! We really enjoy our visits from Tony and we look forward to seeing him again soon.

We have been getting very excited about the Olympics. We are following the Olympic torch as it travels through the United Kingdom. We can’t wait until it reaches Dundee and there will be a special party in Baxter Park!

This Friday has been our Jubilee Jamboree. We all dressed up in red, white and blue clothes- Ellie even made her own hair bobbles and skirt which were fantastic. We had a competition where we had to design a Jubilee stamp or coin and Rory won. Mr Mackay (Mrs Mackay’s husband) even let us borrow his medal to get some ideas of what the Queen might like. We have been designing our own Union Jacks in the Active Learning and Aiden even made a delicious cup cake!

Week Starting Wednesday 6^th June 2012

THERE WILL BE NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY OR TUESDAY AS IT IS THE JUBILEE HOLIDAY

WE HAVE OUR ASSEMBLY ON WEDNESDAY 6^th JUNE at 2pm. All family and friends welcome!

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.

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.

This week we are learning how to perform an assembly.

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.

Christmas is coming……

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We have been super busy this week getting ready for our Christmas fayre. All our crafts look beautiful and we have our fingers crossed that we will raise lots of money for our school.

We made our own price labels for everything on our stalls.

We made Snowmen Advent calendars and will have to remember to move the number along one every day until Christmas.

In Primary 1a2 we have made Charlie Cook’s Reading Nook as part of our Julia Donaldson book study. We picked out our favourite bits from Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book and used it to help us plan and make our reading nook.

Week Starting 5th December 2011

P1a1 and P1a2 all 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.

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 all about addition.

Wednesday 7th is our school Christmas dinner, yum!

On Friday 9th we will be watching the Nursery boys and girls doing their Christmas Nativity show.

Adding, rhyming and fun for Children in Need.

November 18, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

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.

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.

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

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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.