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! 

       

We made a pile of the items that were waterproof and a pile of things that weren’t waterproof and we recorded our findings onto a sheet. 

   

Notices for parents: 

Gym – Every Monday and Friday, please ensure your child has a full gym kit on these days. 

Open Doors – Every Wednesday from 3.00pm to 3.15pm 

Homework – Words and sounds – please go over these with your child every night.