Monthly Archives: May 2012

Enjoying the sunshine!

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We have been enjoying glorious weather here in Dundee and although it has been warm in our classrooms we have still been working very hard.

We continue to revise our sounds every week and we have been using the phonics activities in the classroom. We have been sounding out CVC words and writing short sentences, especially in our Jack and the Beanstalk area.

              

This week in our number work our teachers introduced subtraction. We looked at all the different words for subtraction….minus, take away, less than. We had to find the number before on our number tracks and we know that when we take away, the number will get smaller. We wrote our take away sums on our whiteboards.

  

In our topic work we looked at the different parts of a plant. We read an information book and it told us the names given to all the different parts of a plant; flower, stem, leaves, roots etc. We had our own sheet with a picture of a plant on it and we labelled all the parts ourselves.

              

We also made our own paper daffodils. It was quite a tricky job as we had to cut a rectangle into a round shape by carefully snipping the corners. We also had to very carefully cut and roll a long rectangle shape to make the trumpet part of the daffodil. I think you’ll agree they turned out rather well! 

              

                       

As  the sun has been shining we decided to have our gym lesson outside on the grass. We are all excited that the 2012 Olympics is coming to London so we had our own Olympic type events. We threw javelins, had running events, hurdles and did all sorts of activities. I’m sure the professional atheletes would have been very impressed with our efforts!

  

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 is holding a Beetle Drive on Thursday 31st May at 7.00pm to 8.30pm. Tickets are available from the school – adults – £1.00, children – 50p. Refreshments are included. Please come along and support Longhaugh Primary School.

P1b Assembly

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Hello there and a welcome return to Longhaugh Primary’s P1 blog!

We have continued to revisit and revise all our sounds. We have had phonics stations in our classrooms and we have moved around all the activities varying our learning experiences.

              

In number this week we have continued to revise addition. We used Jack’s magic beans again but this time we were given 10 beans. We worked in pairs and wrote out addition sums on giant sheets of paper.

We were also given new number lines this week. Not just any ordinary number line but one with our heads on it! We have been learning to put the larger number first when we are adding. We keep the bigger number in our head then add on the smaller number to get the answer. This number line helps us to remember to do this as we move “our head” to the big number on our number line. Our “head” keeps that number there so we can then add on the smaller number. Ingenious!

                 

We planted some more seeds this week. This time it was sunflower seeds. We are hoping that our seeds grow into healthy plants then we can move them into bigger pots and take them home. We think our sunflowers will grow to be taller than us?

              

Our school garden was needing a good tidy up as the weeds have been growing due to all the rain we’ve had. We took it in turns to pull out all the weeds and make sure the garden was looking beautiful.

              

As we planted sunfowers this week we decided to paint our own sunflowers. We used the flat of the brush to make the petal shape and rotated the paper so we could paint in a circle. We also mixed colours to show the graduation of the colours of the petals. Don’t they look nice?

  

This week it was the turn of P1b to showcase all their hard work to the school and their families in their assembly. They talked about all the sounds they had learned and the different ways they had learned them. We sang the songs of some of their favourite sounds and they showed us the correct way to write them.Now that they know all the sounds, they told us they can now write words and short sentences. A lot of hard work had gone into their assembly and we all enjoyed it very much. Well done P1b!

               

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 Friday 25th May 2012 for staff in-service training.

P1c Assembly

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We have been revising all our sounds this week and using those sounds to make CVC words in our workbooks and write short sentences in our thinking books.

We had a re-cap on addition this week. Our teacher hid eggs around the room. She said, “the Giant has one egg, can you find four eggs, how many do you have altogether?” Once we had found the correct amount of eggs we wrote our sum on a piece of paper. We then had to do the same again, but this time look for Jack’s beans! This was a fun way of reminding ourselves of addition.

         

This week in our topic we discussed our favourite foods. We had to decide whether we liked sausages, pizza, chicken or spaghetti bolognaise best. Once we had all made our decision we recorded our answers on a tick sheet. We then transferred all our answers to record them on a bar graph.

   

We then thought to ourselves…..what would the Giant like to eat? So we  got a giant plate and lots of different colours of paper and we got to work with our scissors and made the giant a meal. Some of us made him pizza, some of us made him sausages and some of us thought he might like noodles. We think he would enjoy all our meals!

  

P1c had their class assembly this week. All the other pupils and teachers came to watch and we invited all our parents/carers. Our assembly was about all the number work we have been learning since starting school. We talked about counting from 0 to 10 and back again and counting in 10’s from 0 all the way to 100. We also did some addition sums. We talked about telling the time on analogue and digital clocks and we also sang the Days of the Week Song and 10 Green Bottles. Everyone seemed to enjoy it very much and told us what a good job we had done!

  

              

Well done P1c!

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.

Jack and the Beanstalk…….continued

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We have done a lot of work on our Jack and the Beanstalk topic this week. Our teachers gave us giant copies of extracts from the story and we had to do a skimming activity. This meant we had to look over the story and find specific sounds and common words. This was a tricky job and we needed to concentrate very hard. We worked with a partner to find the sounds and common words and circled them with coloured pencils.

  

Something strange happened this week! A giant envelope was delivered to each of the classes. Inside the envelope was a giant footprint. We had to think where it had come from? Who it belonged to? Why was there only one? We knew by looking at it that it was much bigger than our feet so we decided that it must belong to the giant!

We all drew around our own foot and compared the size of our foot to that of the giant’s footprint. We decided that we would have to make another footprint and we discussed how we were going to measure the footprint so we could make our one the same size. We decided we would use cubes.

  

Now that we had the giant’s feet we thought it would be a splendid idea to make the giant himself! We worked in teams. Some of us made the body. Some of us made the legs. Some of us scrunched up newspaper and stuffed it into tights to make the arms, and some of us put cotton wool into latex gloves to make the hands.

  

Our teachers helped us to wrap large sheets around the bricks to cover up the legs and body.

We then all got a sheet of paper and drew the giant’s face. We had to decide whether our giant was a sad giant, or an angry giant, a happy giant or a worried giant. Once we had drawn and coloured in our faces, we displayed them and took a vote on which face was our favourite. We then recorded our votes on a bar graph and the one with the most votes was put on our giant.

  

We also did a bean experiment. We planted beans into soil and also put some beans into glass jars. We know that  our beans will need, light, water and warmth to grow. So we decided to experiment and not give some of the beans any water but put them in a sunny spot so they would have light. We gave the other beans water but put them in a dark cupboard so they didn’t get any light. We are wondering if they will grow…..we’ll keep you posted on the results.

  

Well we have certainly been very busy working away on all our Jack and the Beanstalk activities, I’m sure you will agree!

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 on Monday 7th of May.