Monthly Archives: October 2012

Pumpkins and Skeletons…..Halloween is almost here!

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Hi there and welcome to our blog! We hope everyone who was off for the “tattie” holidays had a great time. We have come back to school all refreshed ready to start our new term.

We have re-capped all our sounds this week but we have also learned 4 new sounds. They are ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘th’ and ‘qu’. Our favourite action is for ‘th’ as we have to stick our tongue out and pretend to be a cheeky clown!

              

              

We also got our word packs this week. They go home with us every night and we learn them every day and very soon we will be getting our own book. We are very excited about that!

We have been re-capping all our numbers to 10 this week. We have been working with our number washing lines and playing matching games, number skittles and interactive white board games.

We have also been counting out leaves and matching the correct amount to the correct number on our hopscotch game.

  

  

We also met Luke this week. Luke is a frog and brings number lily pads with him and he counts in ones. We practised counting forwards up to 10 and then backwards. We also got number lines and we used our pointing finger to help ‘jump’ up the number line.

                   

We have started new topics this week.

P1A’s new topic is called ‘Our Environment’. We have been looking at nature and our natural environment. We have been gathering leaves and have started to look at plants and trees. We have a weather station in our classroom and we have been learning all about the seasons.

P1B’s new topic is ‘The World Around Us’. We read the story of the Jolly Postman and we discussed letters, addresses, what an address is for and where we would see an address. We are going to be finding out our own addresses and we drew our own house and who we live with. In our classroom there is a very large map of Fintry, our local area. Over the next few weeks we are going to find and mark our own homes on the map.

P1C’s topic is ‘Percy The park Keeper’. Our teacher introduced us to Percy and the Percy stories and we found out that Percy had a hut. We thought about what we would want in our own hut and we turned our role-play area in our classroom into Percy’s hut. We then thought about what our own dream hut would look like and we drew our designs.

As it is Halloween next week we have been making some Halloween crafts to decorate our classrooms ready for our Halloween party. We have been making some scary skeletons and some spooky pumpkins!!!

  

We had a visitor to our classes on Friday. Yvonne from Asda came to school and gave us a lesson all about weighing pumpkins. We had to look and see which one was the biggest pumpkin and which one we thought was the heaviest pumpkin.

              

Parent Notices

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

Your child has been given a blue homework packet, please ensure your child brings this to school every day.

The boys and girls will be painting in P1, please provide your child with a painting apron. An old shirt is perfectly acceptable.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.

We will be having a Halloween party on Wednesday aftermoon 31st October. Children can wear their fancy dress costume all day, or bring it in a bag and staff will help them change after lunchtime or they can go home for lunch and come dressed in their costume in the afternoon. Please give your child £1.00 to help towards the party food.

The P1’s now have a twitter account. Please follow our page. To search for our page…..search @p1_longhaugh

Please return the permission slips for our twitter account.

How Time Flies When You’re Having Fun!

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Well, this is our last week before we come off for the ‘tattie holidays’. It’s hard to believe we’ve been at school for 8 weeks. We’re counting the days for our 100 days of school party, so we know exactly how many days we’ve been at school…….. 39 days!

We learned the sounds ‘oo’, ‘y’ and ‘x’ this week. Our favourite action was the action for the sound ‘x’. We pointed with our pointing and middle fingers on both hands pretending they were x-ray guns saying, “xxxxxx.”

  

  

In maths this week we have been re-capping all the things we have been looking at this term, numbers to 10, pattern, shape and comparing size. Although we are usually quite brilliant we thought it best not to start anything brand new as we may forget it over our 2 week holiday. So, we have been playing number bingo, matching games, rolling the dice and singing number songs and rhymes. Making patterns using cubes, bead cards and bead necklaces. Cutting out and sticking a shape picture of a dog and finding and describing shapes in our shape bag and we went outside into our playground to explore ‘big’ and ‘small’.

  

              

In topic this week we were all thinking what would happen next in our fairy tale or what would happen to a character from the fairy tale.

In 1A we wondered what would happen when Peter Pan went back to Neverland. We decided that he would tease the crocodile and play with Tinkerbell! We also made characters from the story using collage for our Neverland board.

  

In 1B we all wondered what might have happened to the Bad Fairy. It doesn’t tell us at the end of Sleeping Beauty so we all thought of our own ideas. We came up with a great many ideas and we drew our idea in picture form  and wrote some words to match our picture.

              

In 1C we also had to think what would happen after the traditional fairy tale ended. We had to predict what we thought might have happened to the Prince and Rapunzel. We are a romantic bunch in P1C and we all thought they would live happily ever after and continue to live in the kingdom. We drew pictures of this idea.

  

We hope everyone has a restful break. We are off school for 2 weeks and we start back on Monday 22nd October. We will see you then when we are all bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to start working hard and learning lots of new things!

Parent Notices

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

Your child has been given a blue homework packet, please ensure your child brings this to school every day.

The boys and girls will be painting in P1, please provide your child with a painting apron. An old shirt is perfectly acceptable.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.

Friday 5th October at 3.15pm is the last day of school before the October holidays. School will be closed for 2 weeks. School will re-start Monday 22nd October at 9.00am.