This week we have been developing a story using a beginning, a middle and an end. We sat in a circle and our teacher started a story and we all had to add a sentence to the story making sure it had a beginning, a middle and an end. From this we wrote our own imaginative story in pictures and added a sentence to descibe each picture.

We then did the same again but this time for the Three Little Pigs.

We continued working on adding and subtraction this week.

We also went on a number hunt. Our teachers put coloured numbers outside. We had to find two numbers of the same colour. We then had to complete a sheet using the numbers we had found. We could decide whether we made an adding sum or a taking away sum, but we had to put the biggest number first.

We carried on the story of The Three Little Pigs in drama this week. We had to re-enact the part of the story when the wolf came to the 2nd Little Pig’s house of sticks and also when the wolf came to the 3rd Little Pig’s house of bricks. We worked in pairs and took turns of being the wolf and the little pig. We had to re-tell the story using our voices, movement and expression.

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 to pupils on Friday 24th May for in-service training and also closed for holiday on Monday 27th May.

Fit Day – look our for flyers. Children will need gym kit in school on Friday 31st may.

Hello, welcome back to our blog. It’s a beautiful spring day here in Dundee, we hope it’s a lovely day where ever you are!

We have been writing about our pig, the 4th little pig, this week. Last week we had decided on some describing words for our pig. This week we used those words and wrote two sentences about our pig.

We also had to decide what our pigs favourite food, colour and sport would be. We were given a choice of 6 foods, 6 colours and 6 sports and we had to write a sentence about each one.

We then made a bar graph of all our choices to see which was the most popular and which was the least popular. Actually, we made two bar graphs, one for food, one for colour. We haven’t managed to complete the graph with our sports choice yet.

As well as gathering  information and recording it on a graph, we have also continued with subtraction and revisited adding. We have been doing sheets with both adding and subtraction sums on to see if it would catch us out…we’re far too smart for that!

We also talked about our pigs personality. This was quite hard for us to write down so we decided to act it out in drama. We had to walk  around and pretend we were sad. That meant that we moved around slowly and our heads were bowed. We then had to change and walk around pretending to be really happy. This time we had our heads up, a smile on our face and some of us were walking with a swagger. Lastly we had to pretend to be really excited. This time we skipped and moved much more quickly, some of us swung our arms from side to side. We had to act out these emotions without using our voices. It’s really very tricky to show how we are feeling by just moving our bodies in different ways.

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 to pupils on Friday 24th May for in-service training and also closed for holiday on Monday 27th May.

Hello! Welcome to Longhaugh Primary P1 blog!

This week we were focusing on our reading skills. We had 8 sentences from The Three Little Pigs story and we had to read them and then match them to the correct picture. We then had to check they were in the right order and that the story made sense. For some of us this was a wee but tricky, but most of us made a very good job.

In numeracy this week we looked at subtraction to 10. We used cubes, compare bears, fingers, number lines. We know subtraction means take away and also less than. We are really quite good at subtraction and some of us who have been working really hard and are really great at subtraction have been taking away with numbers up to 20! Wow!

In topic this week we have been making paper mache pigs. We have to let this dry before we can paint them. As this takes time, some are finished, others still need to be completed. They’re looking  good though.

You’ll be astonished to read this but we got an email from The Three Pigs! They told us they really liked the houses we built for them in our class rooms and they would love someone to come and live with them there. They would like the pigs we made to stay with them. So, we had to tell The Three Pigs a few things about our pigs. They wanted to know their names, what they liked, what they didn’t like.  A little bit about their personalities, are they happy, are they grumpy? We wrote some descriptive words to describe our pigs. Next week we are going to use those words to write sentences describing our pigs.

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.

As you already know, the children have been involved in our transition topic, The Three Little Pigs. This has involved making paper mache pigs and the children have been painting them pink. This pink paint, unfortunately, has not only resulted in pink pigs but several pink children!! We apologise to parents for the extra washing this has caused as school uniforms have been turned pink and we appreciate your support. You will be pleased to know that painting pig season has now ended!! We would appreciate, however, any old shirts etc., that you may have so we have  proper painting overalls for all the children.