A warm welcome back to Longhaugh Primary 1 blog after our 2 week October break. We are all delighted to be back at school and are already working very hard!

We also welcome Mrs Rooney to Longhaugh Primary School, she is P1C’s new teacher. We are sure she will be very happy here and is a wonderful new addition to our school family.

We have learned a further 2 sounds. This week’s sounds are ‘l’ and ‘f’.

                        

The action for ‘l’ is to pretend you are licking a lolly and say ‘l l l l‘and the action for ‘f’ is to put one hand above the other and slowly bring your top hand down to meet the bottom hand as if you were squeezing the air from an inflatable toy saying ‘f f f f’.

              

As we have been away from school for 2 weeks, we have spent time this week revising our sounds and words. Some of us knew all our words and we have been given our first book to take home! This is very exciting and we will be reading our new book with our families every night!

  

We have also been revising all of our numbers from 0-10. Singing our number songs and rhymes and practising all the numbers on our white boards. We sang the song ’10 Green Bottles’ and we filled the bottles with the correct amount of cubes.

                

We met a new friend the week. Our teachers introduced us to Luke. Luke is a very special frog and he comes to visit us with his lily pads. Luke jumps on his lily pads in 1’s and he will be helping us with our numbers. After meeting and working with Luke, we drew what we had learned in our thinking books. We will hopefully meet Mummy Frog soon, she jumps on the lily pads in 2’s.

  

We started the topic ‘Land of Me’ this week. Lots of different animal footprints were left in our classrooms. All the footprints led to a backpack inviting us on an adventure! Who left us the backpack? Where are we going to go? What will we need? Over the next few weeks we will be finding out!

                               

We all thought about what we would need to take with us on an adventure and our teachers wrote all our ideas on a large piece of paper and we wrote our ideas in our thinking books.  We also designed our own backpacks.

                                        

   

We also started to look at Autumn and Autumn festivals. We will soon be going on a sponsored Autumn walk and will be looking at the way the trees and plants change around us.

As Halloween is on Monday, we had our school Halloween party today. We made paper plate lanterns to decorate our classrooms.

We had fabulous fun at our party. We all dressed up in spooky costumes and had a fancy dress parade. Mrs Jenkins chose the winners although she said it was very hard to choose as we all looked fantastic!

                 the winners!

We played musical bumps and musical statues, we ducked for apples and had to put our hands into gooey jelly and sticky spaghetti to find creepy eyeballs and skulls! Yuck! After all that hard work we were ready for our drink of juice and snack.

  

  

  

Pirates have arrived in Mrs Lynch’s room! We have to find buried numbers and sounds in the sand tray, then record our findings on a grid. We are making pirate hats and masks at the art and craft area and in the role play area we count our loot in the treasure chest. Shiver me timbers!!

  

 

I’m sure you’ll agree, what a busy week we’ve had?

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.

Non Uniform Day – Friday 4th November. Please bring in a gift instead of a fine.

Autumn Walk – 8th November – sponsor forms will be in the childrens’ bags on Monday 31st October.

Parts for P1’s Christmas show will be given out on Thursday 3rd November. Please start learning lines.