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.