Monthly Archives: April 2013

I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down….

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Hello there and welcome to our blog!

We have been revising our sounds every day and we have also been practising writing CVC and CCVC words. Some of us are writing short sentences on our own and some of us are extending our writing and writing longer sentences. We have also been looking at capital letters and full stops. Very important when we write our sentences!

                        

We have continued to work on addition this week. Some of us who are confident in adding to 10 have been working with numbers to 20. This is much more tricky!

              

This week we all got a letter from the 3 Little Pigs. P1a received a letter from the third Little Pig. P1b received a letter from the first Little Pig and P1c got a letter from the second little pig. As a result of receiving the letters we are building a straw house, a brick house and a stick house in our class rooms.  

  

  

          

There is also the 3 Little Pigs building site in Mrs Lynch’s room. We have been building straw houses, stick houses and brick houses in here. The story of the Three Little Pigs has been hidden in the sand tray and we have had to find all the pieces of the story and put them in the correct order.

  

              

We have been reading different stories and versions of the traditional tale The Three Little Pigs and we have also been talking about a story having a beginning, a middle and an end. We looked at a video clip of the story and also read a rhyming book of the story and we compared the endings.  We then drew a picture of our favourite ending and wrote about our picture.

  

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.

Several children have not brought a full gym kit back to school since returning after the Easter holidays. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school.

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 for the May Day holiday on Monday 6th May.

Spring is in the air….every where I look around….

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Hello everyone and welcome back after our 2 week break!

We have come back to school ready to learn and work hard.

We have been revising and practising our sounds and CVC words, just to make sure we hadn’t forgotten anything during our 2 week Easter holiday.

We have also been writing short sentences, some of us have been trying to extend our writing by writing longer sentences.

  

We have had a quick revision of our numbers to 10 too. We have continued to work with addition to 10 but we have also been looking at odd and even numbers. Even Steven and Odd Bod. We have also been learning a song to help us remember.

“I’m a number cruncher and my name is Bod. I like numbers if they’re odd .

All odd numbers taste just fine, and they end in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.”

“I’m a number cruncher and my name is Steven. I like numbers if they’re even.

All even numbers taste just great, and they end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8.”                                                          

              

We had been looking at life cycles before the holidays and we continued this week by looking at the life cycle of a butterfly. We also painted our own butterfly.

  

To finish our Spring topic and now that the weather has improved a little bit, we went on our Spring walk to the local community allotments. We had a check list with us that we had to tick when we saw all the different signs of Spring, e.g., daffodils, buds, blossom, birds, green leaves, seedlings, nests etc.

There were also bee hives at the allotments and the gentleman there told us that it was dangerous to go looking in the hives. Only the bee keeper, wearing protective clothing and who also knows how to handle the bees can go to the hives to take the honey. It was a very interesting visit and we thank all those invloved at the allotments for allowing us to visit.

  

  

Our teachers have decided to read us a novel. They will be reading this novel to us a little every day and we will have discussion about the characters and we will try to predict what might happen in the stories. It makes us feel quite grown up to be reading a novel! We chose Roald Dahl as our author and P1A chose George’s Marvellous Medicine. P1B chose The BFG. P1C did choose The Witches but one or two of us found it a little frightening so we’re going to read George, the Pelly and Me instead!

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.

Several children have not brought a full gym kit back to school since returning after the Easter holidays. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school.

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.

P6 are holding a table top sale at the school on Saturday 20th April from 10.00am to 12noon. As well as the tables there will be refreshments, face painting, raffle etc. Please come along and support P6 and Longhaugh Primary School.