Monthly Archives: February 2013

School Days……Past and Present

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Hello there! How are you all this week? Welcome back to our P1 blog. We hope you enjoy following our journey through our first year at Longhaugh Primary School.

We have continued to revise all our sounds and tricky words. We have been using our sounds to build words and construct simple sentences.

              

In number this week we have continued to work on addition. We have been writing adding sums, making our own adding sums and filling in the missing number. lots and lots of number work!

  

In topic this week we watched 3 video clips that showed us schools from the past. One was a school in 1948, one was a school in the 1970’s and the last one told us about a Victorian school. We had to watch and listen and see if there was anything similar between those schools and our school today. We then had to look for the things that were different to our school. We noticed one or two things that were the same but there were a lot of things that were different.

              

We then created a poster to show schools in the past and schools in the present. We worked in groups and we all had to draw a picture of something that a school in the past had, e.g., a slate and chalk or an old fashioned desk with an ink well. Then we each drew a picture of something that a school would have now, e.g., an interactive white board.

  

It was also the turn of P1A to go and visit the senior citizens at the local servite home. We took along pictures of some of the activities in our classroom and we also took some of the games etc that we use every day. The ladies told us what school was like for them when they were children. It sounded very different indeed! They used to get their knuckles wrapped with a ruler!

  

We had been talking about our emotions last week and what it felt like and how our faces and bodies reacted when we were happy, sad, confused, frightened etc.

We drew our portraits focussing on our features and what they look like and how they change when we are happy, and how they change when we are sad. I think you’ll agree we made a really good job of our portraits!

   

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. 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.

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

He loves me……he loves me not….

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Welcome back to a romantic blog this week in celebration of Valentine’s Day! We have been making cards for the person we love, talking about the things and the people we love and also talking about our emotions and how they make us feel.

We have been revising all our sounds again this week and using our sounds to make words and write short, simple sentences. We have also been writing about the things that we love. Our sentences started, I love……

              

We have continued to work on our addition this week. We used our ladybird addition box to help us and we were also working on the tricky missing number sums.

              

In our topic we were looking at homes from the past and comparing the differences to homes that are built now. We looked at the different types of materials used and the way house styles have changed through the years.

We also looked at past and present household items. We looked at old washing machines, irons, cookers and toilets. We didn’t fancy using some of these things, especially the toilet that didn’t have a flush!!!

              

In health this week we have been talking about our emotions. We gave them their proper names and talked about the differences between them. We also shared stories of  times where we might have felt these emotions, e.g., sadness, anger, happiness, fear, and how our bodies and faces might have looked or reacted when we felt these emotions.

  

This week we made our Valentine’s card to take home to the person we love the most. Some of us made cards for our mummy, our daddy, our granny or our sister.

It was quite a tricky job. We worked with a partner and our partner helped to draw around our hands. We then had to carefully cut them out. We then cut out 2 love hearts and stuck them onto our hands. Then came the really tricky part! We had two long strips of paper and we had to carefully and slowly fold them over each other so that they looked a bit like a concertina. We then wrote a message on each of the love hearts. On the first we wrote,’ I love you’. On the second we wrote, ‘this much!.’ we then glued the folded paper onto the hands.

  

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. 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.

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

Mid term Break

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This is a very short week for us at Longhaugh Primary as it’s our mid term break. We have, however, managed to squeeze lots of things into our 3 days.

We have been revising our sounds and tricky words this week and we’ve also been doing some reading assessments. We’ve been checking how many sounds we know and how many words we can sound out and write. We’ve been playing matching word and picture games and finding a picture and writing the word. We’ve also been listening to sounds and words and writing them down.

  

We have continued to work on money this week. We looked at the prices in our shop and we had to find the right coins to pay for the item. We’ve also been playing money matching pairs and money games on our interactive white board.

  

We have been learning a little about the Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the snake and begins on February 10th.

At this time of year chinese families get together to celebrate. The lantern festival is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month. We made our own lanterns to celebrate chinese new year.

              

              

Part of the lantern festival is the dragon dance. Large, painted dragons are held aloft by dancers who dance as they guide the giant dragon through the streets. We made our own dragons.

  

In our topic we looked at old toys and new toys and we also looked at objects of varying sizes and weights and we pulled them and pushed them. We had to investigate and predict how far an object would travel if we gave it a gentle push or if we gave it a hard push. We played some of these games on the interactive white board too.

              

We also had our Burn’s poetry competition. It was very hard indeed for our teachers to pick winners so much so in fact that Miss Donaldson in P1A gave all her class winner certificates. In P1B, Declan Petrie received a certificate. Well done Declan! In P1C, Hollie Glen and Dylan MacGregor won certificates. Well done Hollie and Dylan!

                             

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. 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.

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

The school will be closed to pupils on Thursday 7th February for staff in-service training and closed to pupils and staff on Friday the 8th and Monday 11th February for the mid tem holiday.

100 Days of School!

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We have been celebrating this week in P1, we have now been at school for 100 days!

Our 100 day anniversary was on Wednesday but we began preparing for our celebrations earlier on in the week.

We made our party hats. We decorated bands of paper and cut out a “100” and stuck it on to the middle of the band. We then curled strips of paper and glued them on to the sides of our hats so it looked like we had multi coloured hair! We also decorated “100” style specs. We looked really cool with all our “100” head gear on.

               

                   

We thought it would be a good idea to include the rest of the school in our celebrations, so we made marshmallow top hats, chocolate rice krispie cakes and iced biscuits and sold them to all the boys and girls at break time. They sold very well indeed and we managed to raise money for school funds at the same time!

                             

On the day of our celebration itself we were very excited. We counted in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. We put our “10’s” lily pads in order from0 all the way to 100. We made 10 groups of 10 coloured cubes.

We painted 100 dots on our 100 picture. We had cakes in the shape of 100 (which we all ate later! Yum!) We had 100 candles in the shape of 100. No celebration would be complete without candles!

  

We jumped 100 jumps. We hopped 100 hops. We threw a beanbag 100 times and we ran 100 metres! What an exhausting day!

  

We also continued to look at our topic  generations. We looked at some old toys. Toys that maybe our grannies or great grannies and granddads might have played with. We looked at how they worked and we also got a chance to play with them.

  

  

P1C went to visit local pensioners at Servite housing. We asked them questions about the toys and games they played when they were children. One of the ladies showed us coins we had never seen before. They were coins that were in use when she was a little girl. We played some board games with the ladies and we had a lovely afternoon. P1A and P1B will also be visiting over the next few weeks.

  

We revisited and revised all our sounds this week and we were also writing words that our teacher said out loud to see if we could sound out and then write the word. We also have sentence cards. We read the sentence and drew a matching picture to show we understood what the sentence said then copied the sentence into our jotter.

  

We continued working on money this week and we matched cards of coins and to real coins. We had objects for sale in our shop and we had to find the correct coins to match the price tag, just like a real life shop.

                     

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. 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.

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

The school will be closed to pupils on Thursday 7th February for staff in-service training and closed to pupils and staff on Friday the 8th and Monday 11th February for the mid tem holiday.