Hello and a very warm welcome to our blog!

We have been revising all our sounds this week, singing the songs, doing the actions and reading the flash cards. We have learned another 2 sounds, they are ‘d’ and ‘g’.

     

The action for ‘d’ is to move our hands up and down as if we are playing a drum and say “d d d d d d.” The action for ‘g’ is to move our hand in a swirling action like water gurgling down the drain and say “g g g g g.” Here we are doing the actions for the sounds and also looking at the water ‘gurgling’ down the the drain!

     

We have looked at our Pattern Bear books this week, admiring all the pictures  of the patterns that the boys and girls have taken. We have also been making lots of patterns using cubes, beads and pegs.

   

We have been revising shape. We read a story all about shape and we made a rocket using squares, rectangles and triangles. We then had to think of something we wanted to make and make our own picture only using squares, rectangles, triangles and circles. Here are some of the pictures we made below, I’m sure you’ll agree we made a very good job! It was tricky cutting all the shapes out!

  

  

We learned number 10 this week! We read the number 10 story, sang 10 green bottles, put number 10 on our teddy bear washing line and practised writing number 10 and all our numbers on our white boards.

  

As part of our topic we have been talking and learning about all the people who help us at Longhaugh Primary School. Mrs Lynch took a group of children around the school to interview some members of staff. We had to think up some questions and we recorded our interviews on a microphone and a flip cam. We were very professional!

  

We then had to choose a member of staff from our school and draw them in our Thinking Books.

  

Our P7 boys and girls are holding a laughathon on our school playing fields on Saturday1st October to raise funds for our school. They will be running around the playing fields 15 times. If this is not difficult enough they will be running in fancy dress!! Please come along from 10.00 am to 12 noon and support our primary 7’s. Refreshments will be available.

Notices for parents:

Gym – P1A –Wednesday & Friday, P1B – Thursday and Friday, P1C – Wednesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school. Also please note that all jewellery must be removed for gym.

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing.

Two children from each class have been chosen to be their class gardeners and help in our school garden. Please ensure your child brings in old clothes to school to wear whilst gardening.

P1A – Daniel Owler and Annalise Edwards

P1B – Brandon Ringsell and Courtney Keil

P1C – Robbie Gibb and Megan Wilson

End of term – 7th October 2011