We have had another busy week in P1 at Longhaugh Primary School!
We learned 2 more sounds this week. They were ‘w’ and ‘v’. We listened to the stories, sang the songs, looked at all the objects on the sounds table, wrote in the air with our magic writing finger and practised the sounds on our white boards.
The action for ‘w’ is to put your hands to your mouth and pretend to blow like wind and say ‘wwwwww’. The action for ‘v’ is to pretend you’re holding a steering wheel and driving a van and say ‘vvvvv’.
We have been continuing to practise our sounds and words every day and we have been practising sounding out and writing words in Mrs Lynch’s room.
In number work this week we have been counting on one and two more. There are large number leaves in Bramble Wood and we have been practising our number recognition and the number before and the number after with Mrs Lynch. We had to think hard to jump onto the correct ‘leaf’.
We were also counting on 2 more. We used hoops and added 2 more children, we made a tower of cubes and added 2 more and put beads on a string and added 2 more. We then wrote the number on our white boards. We also met Mummy Frog, she counts in two’s so she was helping us. We will meet her again over the course of the school year.
Three very special visitors from the Land of Me came to visit us. They were an owl called Willow, a bear called Buddy Boo and a raccoon called Eric.
They told us that they love to go on adventures and they wanted us to take them home and go on imaginary adventures with us! Well, we thought this was a fantastic idea. Willow went into P1A, Eric went into P1B and Buddy Boo went into P1C. Willow went on an exciting adventure with Keira, Eric went on a fun adventure with Warren and Buddy Boo went on a scary adventure with Megan. The boys and girls wrote and drew their adventures in the ‘Book of Adventures’ so we can all share them. We can’t wait until it’s our turn to go on an adventure too!
We also painted hedgehogs to put in Bramble Wood. We used sponges and brown paint to make them look spiky.
It’s only a few weeks until we open our Christmas shop and have our Christmas party, so this week we have started to make gift tags for the shop and we have have been practising our dances in gym for the party. We think we’ll soon be as good as the dancers on Strictly Come Dancing!
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 25th November. Please bring in a tombola gift instead of a fine.
Sponsor Money – Please hand into school all sponsor money.
Christmas show – Please give your child their costume in a plastic bag with their name on it as soon as possible. Also please help your child practise and learn their lines for the show.
