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Our DCA Visit and More!

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What a busy week we have had!

Our learning in maths this week has been to match numbers to number words. We will be continuing to learn about this over the next few weeks.

We have been practising our sounds and continuing to try and sound out, blend and write three letter words.

This week we listened to a story called the Grufflao. We have decided that this will be our next topic. Both classes made a plan. We had lots of ideas!

We have started with a Deep Dark Wood in our classrooms and in the Active Learning Zone. We are going to pretend to be the characters from the story. We have a book to draw and write about our adventures in the Deep Dark Wood.

On Wednesday we talked about Diwali. This is the Hindu Festival of Light. We listened to the story of Rama and Sita. You can read it here. http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/re/b-dag/ngfl-container/re-unit3-en.html Then we drew some Rangoli patterns and some Mehndi designs.

On Thursday we visited the DCA in Dundee. It has a cinema and we went to see Film Shorts for Wee Ones. We went on the bus and there were lots of balloons on the stairs to show us where to go. We sat in a cinema and watched lots of little films about all different things. We got a poster to take home.

When we got back to school we had to think about which film was our favourite. We all had to tell our teacher and our friends about the film. This is what we said….

Rory said “The thunder and lightening one was the best. When the man threw the phone and the lightening came.”

Nathan said “I liked the clooud. His head went to thunder and the whole house went on fire.”

Aiden said “I like the acorn film, It was funny when his hat fell off and he was in the bee’s house.”

Demilade said “I liked ALL the films! My favourite one was the cloud one because it’s so funny and I also liked the one with the acron. I liked it when he fell down.”

Ellie said “I liked the film with the little girl drawing people. It was funny.”

Flynn said “I liked the film with the dragon because the little boy ate the dragon.”

Brandon said “I liked the one when the boy put his head off. It was funny.”

Kayla said “I like the star film because the little girl got a star.”

On Friday we had a Fit Friday. Here is our Fit Friday timetables…

We had Rugby, Fruit tasting with Ms Gauld, Playground Games, Circuit Training, Basic Moves and a Judo session. They were all fab.

In our classrooms we also learned about parts of our body. P1a1 learned about the face and P1a2 looked at a skeleton. We talked about what all the parts of the body are called.

Week Starting 31st October 2011

  • P1a1 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • Remember to bring your Halloween costume in a bag on Monday.
  • Book bags will be issued on Friday. Please read the book with your child over the weekend and return it to school on Monday morning.

Halloween party on Monday afternoon. Remember you costume and 30p for the Spooky Tuck Shop.

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 Gruffalo and how the book and the film are the same or different.

Measuring Up At The End Of Term One

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This week we have been investigating and learning all about measuring. We have been looking at things that are long and things that are short. We had to sort out pictures on the promeathan board by thinking about which group they belonged to and if they were long or short and tall or small. Next, we had to investigate in our classrooms and see which things we could sort into these groups. It was lots of fun. In the Active Learning Zone we have been busy learning all length too. We had to measure how tall we were on the height chart and then had to mark our height on it with a post it note to see who was the tallest and smallest. We also had lots of fun measure the height or length of different pictures using cubes.

  

 

We are very proud of ourselves that we have now learnt all of our initial Jolly Phonic sounds. We have really enjoyed learning the sounds, names and actions but our favourite way to learn them has been by singing the songs which go with them, We are really good at remembering them and we can use all the sounds which we know to write short words. We are looking forward to learning our Jolly Phonic blends after the holidays.

  

In ICT we have been busy making pictures of the different characters from Sleeping Beauty. We had to use the start menu and select the Textease Paint icon. Next, we had to change the size of brush we were using and then use the colours which match the character we were going to create. It was tricky to control the mouse but we all tried really hard and got some fabulous results!

  

  

We hope that you have all enjoyed reading about what we have been doing during our first term of Primary One and we will see you all in two weeks when we return from our holiday.

Week Starting 24th October 2011

  • P1a1 have gym on Monday 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 issued on  Friday. Please read the book with your child over the weekend and return it to school on Monday morning.

We have our Film Festival trip to DCA on Thursday.

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

After the holidays we will be learning about The Gruffalo.

All Shapes and Sizes

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The sound we have learned so far are s, a, t, p, i, n, c, k, e, h, m, r and d.

 We have been using the Oxford Reading Tree Big Talking Cards to learn all about Mum, Dad and all the adventures the family have. We love to talk about what we can see in the pictures and Miss Davies and Mrs Mackay even have special puppets to help us remember who everyone is. Floppy is EVERYONES favourite.

We drew our favourite scenes from Sleeping Beauty and added speech bubbles to one of the characters in our picture. We stuck all our pictures in our floor book.

  

 In numeracy we have been learning all about 2D shapes. We have been sorting, matching and drawing shapes. We liked to play the Feely Bag game where we could not see the shape but had to guess what it was by its features.

                          

We also had our first school assembly and gym this week. We loved gym and were very good at balancing fluff balls using our bodies.

At the start of every week on our blog we will put some information about the following week in school.

Week Starting 12th September 2011

  • P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
  • Remember to return your Child Smile letters and 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 all about how to keep our teeth healthy.

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!

Sleeping Beauty

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  Hi everyone!

We have had a very busy week. Here is what we have been learning.

We have been learning new sounds p, i, and n. And we are beginning to see if we can blend these sounds together to make words. We are continuing to write on our sound sheets and send them home.

We have been learning about our Oxford Reading Tree characters that will be in our story books. We have heard stories about Kipper and Biff and Chip.

We have been listening to lots of Sleeping Beauty stories and have lots of different areas of learning which will help us learn about Sleeping Beauty. After we listened to all the stories we voted using Active Expressions. We had to think about which one was our favourtie.

    

We also have been listening to stories about princess too. We have a castle, puppets and Sleeping Beauty’s Bedroom in Mrs Munro’s Learning Zone and have been making crowns in the classroom.

   

We have also been watching a DVD about Sleeping Beauty made with shadow puppets. We were amazed with it and are going to vote about whether we like the book or the DVD the best. We have a big floor book and will start to put all the things we are learning about Sleeping Beauty into it.

   

In maths we have been counting, learning numbers and sorting. We used maths boxes. We used the frogs maths box and sang five speckled frogs and we used the Bad Tempered Ladybird box. We listened to the story and counted the ladybirds with spots.

   

We used the Promethean Board to sort bears and sorted buttons and other things into sets too.

                           

Please leave us a comment as we look at our blog every week to see comments, how many people have viewed it and what countries have viewed it.

A New Primary One

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Welcome to all our new Primary One pupils!

You first week at Dens Road has been very busy and we cannot believe how quickly you have all settled. Let’s see what we have been learning about….

We were introduced to Walt and Wilf this week. Walt is the teacher’s friend and tells what to teach us. Wilf tells us what to do to succeed. They are both there to help us learn.

We have been learning new Jolly Phonics sounds s, a and t. We have been trying to write those sounds and think of words that begin with them. We have been using the promethean board to practise writing them too.

Our number work this week has been practising writing numbers and drawing how many. We are very good and lots of us can count and write lots of numbers. We will be counting how many days at school. We have been at school 3 days to far.

We have been learning about the rules in school and about trying very hard to be green. We have a wall with our names on it. If we follow all the school rules we stay on green and get special treats. We also have sticker charts too and get a special prize when we complete our sticker chart. We love getting stickers for our charts!

We will be learning about Sleeping Beauty and have started reading different stories about her. We will be doing lots of activities about Sleeping Beauty.

Please leave a comment and let us know what you thought about your first week at school.

Old School New School

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This week we have been celebrating 100 years of Dens Road School. We had an assembly on Tuesday where we saw what it was like to be in school in 1911 when the school opened. We saw a classroom with slates and chalk and an abacus. And we saw a classroom like ours with Nintendo DS’ and interactive whiteboards. We like our classrooms. We did a mind map of what we would like to learn about schools. Check out the latest school blog which has extracts of the school log book 100 years ago. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dd/DensRoadSchool100Years/

 

We have been practising our Jolly Phonics sounds lots this week. We have been making 3 letter words in class. We play with the wedge and make words.

In our homework we have a new Blending Book so we can have lots of practise of blending our sounds together. The more we practise, the better we get!

In maths we are learning to add things together. We are really good at it already. We have used our Ladybird Maths Box to help us.

 

We also practise writing numbers on our whiteboards. We completed our first adding sheet in the class and Mrs Mackay and Miss Davies will be putting them into our Folio of Work for P1.

#snowday5

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Hello boys and girls of P1.
We cannot believe that we are still off school with the snow.
If you have been playing out in the snow please leave a comment to tell everyone about it.
Here are some more games to play to keep you busy.

Click on the link to play some of these games. Play Compare and Order, String of Beads and Fish Tank. This will help with your Maths.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

Listen to this shape song.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-2d-shape-song/3121.html

And then try this shape matching game.

http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/match_up/shape_match/shape_match.htm

Play CVC Maker to practise making some words with the sounds you know.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html

Play this sound game to practise putting the middle sounds into words.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/phonics/fs.shtml

Play a Magic Key Oxford Reading Tree Game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/soundmonster_gamefs.shtml

Can you remember about all the characters in our reading books?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/characters_nonjs.shtml

Fingers crossed we are all back to school on Monday!

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!

The Gruffalo – Characters

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We have been studying the Gruffalo even more. We have looked at all the things that make him a good character. We looked at the book and remembered his purple prickles, terrible teeth in his terrible jaw and his black tongue. We has to make our own character and had to think of lots of things it would need. Look at our pictures of our drawings.

We have been practising our Jolly Phonics sounds and trying to blend them together to read and write three letter words. We have been looking at our Oxford Reading Tree books and trying to perdict what will happen next in our stories.

In maths we have been continuing to look at pictograms. We made pictograms of fruit and we knew which fruit was the most popular. We also have been working with size. We looked at the characters from our Gruffalo story and thought about which was the tallest, shortest and narrowest. We used the Active Expressions to help us record our answers. We had to think about how the characters made us feel and we also had to choose our most favourite character in the story. Here are the results from our voting.

We have been learning songs for our Chirstmas Show, The Sleepy Shepherd. We have been using our super singing voices. Watch out for more information coming soon.

Please remember to leave a comment. The children have been so excited to read your comments about their learning.