Our new friends, Luke and Ruby Bear

February 25, 2011 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

Hello and welcome and again to our blog. Primary 1 have learned 2 more sounds. This week’s new sounds are ‘oi‘ and ‘ue‘.

The action for for the ‘oi’ sound is to put yours hands on either side of your mouth and shout ‘OI’. The action for the ‘ue‘ sound is to point your finger towards someone and say ‘UE’.

We met Ruby Bear this week. We found out that she is a special bear and we read about all the things that make her different. We drew a picture of Ruby and wrote a sentence about her.

This week we also met Luke and the lily pads. We put the numbers in order and Luke helped us to jump up the number line, find the number before, the number after and the number inbetween. We then recorded our numbers in our thinking books!

Later on in the week we also met Mummy Frog. Mummy Frog is very clever and helps us to count in 2’s. We talked about even numbers and recorded our answers in our thinking books.

We also used our frog flip flop books. We worked in pairs and these very clever books help us with our number stories to 10.

We are very lucky and some young footballers from Dundee United are coming to help us over the next few weeks learn football skills etc. This week they concentrated on fitness and we played games and were very energetic running around in our Assembly hall!

We continued with our Under the Sea project and learned more about an octopus. Miss Simpson made a playdough octopus and put it in a large glass bowl filled with water. We learned that if a preditor such as a shark came near to the octopus it would get frightened. To protect itself the octopus would squirt black ink so the shark couldn’t see it, then it would escape into the ocean. To let us see what a real octopus would do in the sea, Miss Simpson put black ink into the bowl so the octopus would be hidden. We recorded what we learned in our thinking books.

We also made origami whales for our ‘under the sea’ wall. This was a very tricky job and we had to concentrate hard. We had to fold the paper carefully and press very firmly to make sure the whale shape was perfect. we then finger painted spots onto our whales.

On Thursday afternoon we had the pleasure of the ‘play on Wheels’ bus. We had fantastic fun playing with all sorts of different outdoor toys and using our imaginations to make simple objects transform into exciting things to play with. I think you’ll agree the photographs show what a wonderful afternoon we had!

Notices for parents:

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday – 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – words and sounds every night.

Telling the Time

February 18, 2011 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

This week we have learned out 35th sound! Wow! It was the sound ‘ou‘.

The action for this sound is to use the pointing finger of one hand and pretend it is a needle and jab your other hand and say ‘ou!’

We have been doing a lot of time work this week. We have also started to look at digital time. We used the time washing line and matched analogue clocks to digital clocks. We played time bingo games and used the Bee Bot and time Bee Bot mats.

We made another sea creature to add to our Under the Sea wall. This time we made an octopus. We covered a plastic cup in strips of blue and green paper. Then we curled strips of blue paper to make its’ tenticles. This was very tricky and we had to concentrate hard!

Finally, we glued the tenticles on to the octopus body and drew a face with black pen.

We were very lucky and the school was gifted apple and pear trees from Morrisons for our community garden. On Thursday ‘gardeners‘ from every stage went out and helped Miss Simpson plant the trees. Lets hope they grow strong and we get fruit to eat!

Notices for Parents :

Gym – Every Monday and Friday. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school on these days.

Homework – Words and sounds every night.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday, 3.00pm – 3.15pm.

Mid Term

February 10, 2011 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

Welcome to P1’s blog! We are only at school for 3 days this week so we have been very busy fitting everything in that we needed to do.

We learned two more sounds this week. They are ‘sh’ and ‘qu’.

When we do the action for ‘sh’ we put our finger to our lips as if we are telling someone to be quiet. For ‘qu’, we put the palms of our hands together and open them up pretending our hands are a ducks beak.

As next Monday is Valentines Day and we won’t be at school, we made our cards ready to give to some one we love. We had silver foil hearts and using the handle end of a paint brush we pressed a design on the foil. We then turned the hearts over and glued them onto red card. We wrote our message on the inside.

On Tuesday we did another water experiment. This time we wanted to see what objects would float and what objects would sink. Mrs Adams and Miss Simpson gathered together 15 items. We were all given 1 item and had to predict whether we thought it would float or sink when we put it in the water.

After we discovered whether it floated or sank we put them in the correct pile. We then recorded our findings on a sheet.

Notices for parents :

Gym – Every Monday and Friday. Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday from 3.00pm to 3.15pm.

Homework – Words and sounds every night.

We are scientists!

February 4, 2011 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

Hello again and welcome to Longhaugh Primary’s P1 blog!

We have learned 2 new sounds this week. They are ‘oo’ and ‘ch‘.

To do the action for the ‘oo’ sound we pretend to be the cuckoo in the cuckoo clock and move our head backwards and forwards. For the ‘ch‘ sound we pretend to be a steam engine and our hands move round like the pistons .

We are still continuing with addition this week and we have been using hoops and cubes to see how many ways we can make 7 .

To add to our ‘Under the Sea’ wall we made star fish. We scrunched up yellow and orange tissue paper and stuck the pieces on using a pattern. Don’t they look effective?

We have continued to look at water this week and conducted 2 experiments. For the first experiment we worked in groups of 3 and had a tub each. We put sand in one, salt in the second and sugar in the third.

We added water and gave it a big stir.

We noticed the salt and the sugar dissolved but the sand didn’t. We recorded our findings.

We have left the tubs on the window sill of our classrooms and we’re going to see if any thing happens to the salty, sugary and sandy water.

We also wanted to discover which items were waterproof and which weren’t waterproof. Miss Simpson and Mrs Adams put different things in a bag. We put them into our water tray to see if they absorbed all the water or if the water just ran off the top. We found out that woollen things like hats and socks weren’t waterproof but plastic things like bath toys and hard hats were!