Hello and welcome to our blog!

We have continued to gather and record information this week. We again used a Carroll diagram, this time using two criteria – colour and shape.

We also used a tick sheet this week. There were  coloured hoops on the classroom floor. We had to choose the hoop that was our favourite colour. We then recorded our findings altogether on a tick sheet then used the information from the tick sheet to create a bar graph!

We all watched a Jack and the Beanstalk film this week. It wasn’t the usual kind of animation we are used to seeing. In this film the characters were shadow puppets so we couldn’t see their faces or their clothes. We then read another version of the Jack and the Beanstalk story and we discussed what was the same and what wasn’t the same between the film and the book. After we had talked about them both we had to decide which one we like the best. We then recorded on a speech bubble the reason why we preferred the book or the film. All our speech bubbles were then put into a big book so we can all look and compare everyones answers.

We have discovered there are many versions of Jack and the Beanstalk and we read another version of the story. This time each of our classes had to pick a scene from the story. P1a picked a scene from inside the Giant’s castle. P1b picked the scene when Jack was climbing the beanstalk. P1c picked the scene when Jack was selling Daisy the cow for magic beans.

We were all given a sheet of paper and we had to draw our scene putting in as much detail as we could. We had to think who was in the scene, what were they doing, what was in the background. Lots to think about and we tried very hard and made a very good job!

Finally this week we again looked at 8 pictures from the Jack and the Beanstalk story. We had to cut them out and put them in the correct order. We then had to sound out the words and match them to the correct picture. Finally we had to colour in the pictures very carefully making sure we used the correct colours and the same colours in every picture so the story made sense to make our own comic strip.

Our Jack in the Beanstalk topic is part of the early years cluster project. A wiki has been created so we are able to share all our learning. Please follow the link below.

https://wikis.glowscotland.org.uk/index.php?title=0003304/J%26BSClusterProject/Longhaugh_PS

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. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

The school will be closed to pupils on Thursday 3rd of May as the school is to be used as a polling station for the local election.