31 | May | 2011 | Longhaugh Primary 1

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!