Monthly Archives: May 2011

Longhaugh Garden Centre

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We practice our sounds and words every day, this is very important to remind ourselves of all the sounds we have learned especially when we are continuing to work on sounding out and writing new and familiar words.

We are still learing all about money. This week we had purses with an amount on it and we had to add the correct coins together to match that amount. We were also rolling a dice and picking up the correct coin to match the dice. We have also been using our money washing line and the money Bee Bot mat.

  

We have been busy, busy, busy this week planting plants and making lots of things to sell in our garden centre! We all planted petunias and geraniums into the pots we had decorated with tissue paper last week.

   

We cut out large petals and the flower centre from paper and glued them together to make a flower.  Mrs Lynch laminated them and we put them on a stick to make windmills for the garden.

  

We made Hamma Bead designs and we then put magnets on the back to make fridge magnets.

  

We also drew round our hands onto white paper, cut them and folded them around pipe cleaners to make bunches of cala lilies.

      

We coloured in paper butterflies, folded then glued them together and put them on a lolly stick to make flying butterflies.

  

We also painted butterflies and cut out flowers to decorate the Assembly Hall all ready for our Garden Centre.

  

  

As our sports day is next week we decided to have a rehearsal as we’ve never been part of Longhaugh’s sports day before. We went into the Assembly Hall with the p2’s and the p3’s and practiced all our races. I think we all know what to do now and we are all looking forward to the real event!

  

At last Thursday came and our Garden Centre was open! We invited our families and Mr Munro and Mrs Gallacher also came and joined us. We were all given a job to do  – some of us were selling all the goods we made, some of us were helping Miss Bonnar at the raffle, some of us were helping Mrs Adams serve the tea, coffee, juice and biscuits in the cafe and some of us helped Miss Simpson and Mrs Lynch at the till, taking the money, giving change and wrapping all the goods. We had a very busy afternoon and we all worked extremely hard! It was great fun and all our hard work paid off as we made £120 towards our school fund!

   

  

 

Well done all the boys and girls in Longhaugh Primary P1!!

Notices for Parents 

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

Open Doors  – There will be no open doors this week. It will resume next week at the usual time.

Homework – All words and sounds every night.

Infant sports afternoon is on Wednesday 1st June at 1.30pm (weather permitting)

Visiting the Garden Centres

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Hello! Welcome back to Longhaugh Primary’s P1 Blog!

We go over our words and sounds every day and we are getting really good at making new words using our phonics games and the phonics bibs.

                                                             

We have continued to work on subtraction this week with the butterfly bag and the butterfly washing line. We also talked again about the things we know about money and sorted out lots of coins and pegged and matched coins on the washing line.

Mrs Johnstone made up cups of fruit and we opened our fruit shop. We were all given a bag of coins and we had to write a price tag for our cup of fruit, then go to the till and pay for it using the correct coin. We also got to eat our fruit when we had paid for it! Yum!

  

As you know from the last few weeks, we have been planting seeds and making things to sell in our garden centre. This week we made seed packets and put seeds inside to sell. We coloured in the packets and drew the flowers on the front and labelled them so customers will know what they are buying.

                      

It was exciting this week as we visited 2 garden centres, Turriffs in Broughty Ferry and Dobbies in Monifieth. We met Mr Turriff and we walked around the nurseries looking at all the plants. We also went into the room where the ladies make up the bouquets and floral displays.

  

At Dobbies we looked at all the things that they sell e.g., flowers, plants, garden ornaments, pots, compost, paving stones, fencing, fish, chickens, toys, cards, books etc. We went into the summer house and we all planted a pumpkin seed. We then finished our day by going to the cafe and having juice and a biscuit. We had a lovely time.

  

  

After visiting the garden centres we thought it was a good idea to go into our school garden and tidy it up a bit. We took turns at weeding and planting some potato tubors.

                                                                        

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

Open Doors  – There will be no open doors this week. It will resume next week at the usual time.

Homework – All words and sounds every night.

The Longhaugh Garden Centre will be open in the Assembly Hall on Thursday 26th May at 1.30pm

Gardening Mama

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We have continued to practice and learn new words this week. We have played phonics games, matching games, used the word bee bot mat and our phonics bibs. We are getting really good at spelling out all our words!

     

We are still learning about subtraction. We had large hoops in the classroom and some of us had to stand in them. The teacher then took one of us away from the hoop and we had to work out the subtraction sum. We used the butterfly bag again this week and we were practicing take away with the butterflies and leaves and we wrote our sums on leaf books. We also used the butterfly washing line and discussed what was one less, two less etc.

This week we painted our clay pots with Mrs Lynch and stuck sparkly jewels on them ready to sell in our garden centre.

 We also decorated paint pots with brightly coloured tissued paper and then painted them with glue to make them shiney and hard. 

   

We each got a pot which we filled with soil and we were all given seeds. There were four different types of flower seeds and we planted them in our pots. We are looking after them and carefully watering them so they will grow into strong, healthy plants we can sell at our garden centre.

             

We looked at the beans we put into the glass jars last week. The beans that have had sunlight and water have started to sprout and we can see the shoots and the roots. The other beans are not doing so well, but we’re keeping an eye on them. We also planted cress seeds this week so we’re hoping we have cress to put in our sandwiches soon!

  

This week Mrs Adams and Miss Simpson introduced Gardening Mama on the DS. We were all given a learning partner and we discussed what makes a good learning partner. We were all very excited about playing this game on the DS’s!

     

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.

Infant Sports afternoon will be on 1st June – details to follow

Bean Experiment

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This week we have been extremely busy even though we’ve only been at school for 3 days due to the May holiday and the election.

We have been working hard on our 3 letter words again this week, using matching games, board games, bee bot mats and our phonic vests.

  

  

Our teachers introduced subtraction to us this week. We discussed that subtraction means take away and we looked at the sign (-). The butterfly bag was used for the first time. We were given leaves and 5 butterflies and we had to take some butterflies away and practice, with our teacher, writing the sums on the whiteboards. We also used our currant buns masks and sang the song.

  

As part of our Plants topic, we intend to open a garden centre (details to follow) and make and grow things to sell, just like a real garden centre. This week we made clay tea light holders. We had to make sure they were big enough to hold a candle. Next week we are going to paint them with Mrs Lynch.

We also did a bean experiment. We talked about what beans need to grow and we decided that they need sunlight and water. We had 4 jars and filled the jars with paper and cotton wool. We split into groups and one group put their beans in a jar and watered it and put it on the window sill where it could get light. Another group put their beans into a jar and put it on the window sill but didn’t give it any water. The third group put their beans in a jar, watered it but put it into a dark cupboard away from the light. The fourth group put their beans into a jar and gave it no water and put it into the dark cupboard. We’re going to see how many of the beans grow. We drew the picture and wrote what we thought would happen in our Thinking Books. 

  

  

In Mrs Lynch’s room the role play area is a pet Shop and we have been learning how to care for animals. There is also to be a gaming pod and this week we have just found out that we are going to have an Eye Pet. The P7’s are going to help us and we all have a learning partner.

   

 We are very excited! We start next week!

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.

Infant Sports afternoon will be on 1st June – details to follow