25 | February | 2011 | Longhaugh Primary 1

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!