P1 Assembly

June 24, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Welcome back to the penultimate P1 blog of 2010/2011!

This week we were counting with Luke and his lily pads. We have been counting from 0 – 10 and from 0 – 20. We then went on to counting in 10’s with King Frog!

As you will know, our school garden is looking lovely and we have been waiting for our strawberry plants to grow and ripen. Well, this week our strawberries were ready and we picked and ate them. It was lovely eating something we had planted and grown ourselves!

On Thursday afternoon, we performed our assembly to our families and the whole school. It went very well indeed. All the speakers spoke slowly and clearly and Mr Munro commented on how much he enjoyed it.

After the assembly we went into our playground with our families and Mr Munro officially opened our lovely, brightly painted shelter.

We had our inter house challenge this week. The whole infant department got together and we split up into our houses and coloured in banners ready to wave and cheer on our teams.

Longhaugh primary School has 4 houses, Mains, Dudhope, Claypotts and Broughty. They are named after castles in the local area. We all sat in our teams and we wore team colours. Red for Mains, green for Dudhope, yellow for claypotts and blue for Broughty. We did an obstacle course and the teams all had p1’s, p2’s and p3’s in them. We don’t know who won yet as it is going to be announced at our prize giving!

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – last open doors next Wednesday, 29th June. Please bring an empty carrier bag.

Celebration of Achievement – Wednesday 29th June.

School closes 12 noon, Friday 1st July.

Whole School Trip to the Cinema

June 17, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Welcome back to our blog!

We have been so busy this week painting our shelter and preparing for our assembly next week that we have not had much time to fit anything else in!

We have, however, still managed to squeeze in our words and sounds every day and we have continued to do our reading so we can finish our books before the end of term.

We have been playing Gardening Mama and decorating her to make her look “fancy.” We have also been planting more flowers and vegetables in the Gardening Mama game.

As we said last week, Mrs Lynch’s son, Matthew, chalked out the design on our shelter and this week we have been painting it!

Miss Simpson, Mrs Lynch and Mr Munro’s daughter Sarah, painted the high parts we couldn’t reach and all the tricky edges, but we all helped and painted the rest.

When we had finished painting, we all put our names on a corner of the wall along with the date, so in years to come other boys and girls will remember us and all our hard work.

I’m sure you agree that it looks fantastic!

We are all looking forward to our assembly next Thursday and Mr Munro is officially going to open our splendid shelter!

As it is Father’s Day on Sunday we all made a card for our Dads, Grandads or Uncles. We coloured in a tie in a pattern and wrote a special message on the back.

DSCF3767 — Our finished Father's Day cards

On Friday the whole school was supposed to be going to Camperdown Park to celebrate all the good behaviour that the boys and girls show every day at Longhaugh Primary School. Unfortunately, the weather forecast was for rain so we all went to the cinema instead to see “Rio,” an animated film about a blue macaw. We all went on the bus and had a fantastic time! Thank you Mr Munro and Mrs Gallacher!.

Notices for Parents

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday at 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – All words and sounds every night.

P1 Assembly – Thursday 23rd June at 1.30pm

Sensation Science Centre

June 10, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

We have only a few weeks left of P1 and we still have lots of things to do!

No matter how busy we are though, we are still doing our words and sounds every day. We were also using the phonics BeeBot, games and the sounds bibs to make words.

We’re still working on subtraction to 10, but this week we started to work out our take away sums using the number in your head number line! How smart are we??

We were back out into our school garden again this week, weeding and generally trying to keep it neat and tidy. We also planted the pumpkin plants and the petunias that we didn’t manage to sell at our garden centre.

At the end of our plants topic we have been looking at our garden and how nice it’s now looking, and we thought it would be nice to brighten up the shelter in our playground which is just beside our garden. We discussed what would be a good design to paint in the shelter and we all got letters home to make sure we bring old clothes into school on painting days. Luckily, Mrs Lynch’s son is an art student so he is coming in to help us chalk the outline of our design on the shelter walls.

Finally this week we went on our trip to Dundee’s Sensation Science Centre. What fun we had! We were able to climb in a giant head and slide down the nose! We looked at models of inside our eyes, checked our balance, sniffed all sorts of very peculiar smells of plants and animals. As you can tell the exhibition downstairs was all about our senses.

We then got a tour of the dinosaur exhibition and learned all about dinosaurs and how they lived and died millions of years ago. It was a fantastic day!

Notices for Parents

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday at 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – All words and sounds every night.

Whole School Camperdown Park trip – Friday 17th June.

Please ensure children are wearing old clothes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for painting the shelter.

Sports Day

June 3, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello again and welcome back to Longhaugh Primary’s P1 Blog!

We’re still going over our words and sounds every day and continuing to practice making new and familiar words. This is important as we are writing short sentences all by ourselves. This week we read the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We talked about all the things that Jack found at the top of the beanstalk. We had to use our imagination and write a sentence about what we would like to find.

We were working on our subtraction to 10 again this week, we used the number washing line, number rhymes and our butterfly subtraction bag.

We have been working with our P7 gaming partners on the playstation Eyepet game. This week we all went to the Assembly hall and made our own junk model Eyepet. There were lots of different and wonderful Eyepets constructed from all kinds of boxes, bottles, yoghurt tubs etc.

Here is a selection of the models made:

Thursday this week was our infant sports day. It was a little windy and some of our sacks blew away but we had lots of fun and we all enjoyed joining in all of the races. There was a running race, a three-legged race, a potato and spoon race, a sack race and a skipping race. Many congratulation to all of the winners!!

The sack race.

The three-legged race.

Notices for Parents

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – There will be no open doors this week. It will resume next week at the usual time.

Homework – All words and sounds every night.

Longhaugh Garden Centre

May 31, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

We practice our sounds and words every day, this is very important to remind ourselves of all the sounds we have learned especially when we are continuing to work on sounding out and writing new and familiar words.

We are still learing all about money. This week we had purses with an amount on it and we had to add the correct coins together to match that amount. We were also rolling a dice and picking up the correct coin to match the dice. We have also been using our money washing line and the money Bee Bot mat.

We have been busy, busy, busy this week planting plants and making lots of things to sell in our garden centre! We all planted petunias and geraniums into the pots we had decorated with tissue paper last week.

We cut out large petals and the flower centre from paper and glued them together to make a flower. Mrs Lynch laminated them and we put them on a stick to make windmills for the garden.

We made Hamma Bead designs and we then put magnets on the back to make fridge magnets.

We also drew round our hands onto white paper, cut them and folded them around pipe cleaners to make bunches of cala lilies.

We coloured in paper butterflies, folded then glued them together and put them on a lolly stick to make flying butterflies.

We also painted butterflies and cut out flowers to decorate the Assembly Hall all ready for our Garden Centre.

As our sports day is next week we decided to have a rehearsal as we’ve never been part of Longhaugh’s sports day before. We went into the Assembly Hall with the p2’s and the p3’s and practiced all our races. I think we all know what to do now and we are all looking forward to the real event!

At last Thursday came and our Garden Centre was open! We invited our families and Mr Munro and Mrs Gallacher also came and joined us. We were all given a job to do – some of us were selling all the goods we made, some of us were helping Miss Bonnar at the raffle, some of us were helping Mrs Adams serve the tea, coffee, juice and biscuits in the cafe and some of us helped Miss Simpson and Mrs Lynch at the till, taking the money, giving change and wrapping all the goods. We had a very busy afternoon and we all worked extremely hard! It was great fun and all our hard work paid off as we made £120 towards our school fund!

Well done all the boys and girls in Longhaugh Primary P1!!

Notices for Parents

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – There will be no open doors this week. It will resume next week at the usual time.

Homework – All words and sounds every night.

Infant sports afternoon is on Wednesday 1st June at 1.30pm (weather permitting)

Visiting the Garden Centres

May 20, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello! Welcome back to Longhaugh Primary’s P1 Blog!

We go over our words and sounds every day and we are getting really good at making new words using our phonics games and the phonics bibs.

We have continued to work on subtraction this week with the butterfly bag and the butterfly washing line. We also talked again about the things we know about money and sorted out lots of coins and pegged and matched coins on the washing line.

Mrs Johnstone made up cups of fruit and we opened our fruit shop. We were all given a bag of coins and we had to write a price tag for our cup of fruit, then go to the till and pay for it using the correct coin. We also got to eat our fruit when we had paid for it! Yum!

As you know from the last few weeks, we have been planting seeds and making things to sell in our garden centre. This week we made seed packets and put seeds inside to sell. We coloured in the packets and drew the flowers on the front and labelled them so customers will know what they are buying.

It was exciting this week as we visited 2 garden centres, Turriffs in Broughty Ferry and Dobbies in Monifieth. We met Mr Turriff and we walked around the nurseries looking at all the plants. We also went into the room where the ladies make up the bouquets and floral displays.

At Dobbies we looked at all the things that they sell e.g., flowers, plants, garden ornaments, pots, compost, paving stones, fencing, fish, chickens, toys, cards, books etc. We went into the summer house and we all planted a pumpkin seed. We then finished our day by going to the cafe and having juice and a biscuit. We had a lovely time.

After visiting the garden centres we thought it was a good idea to go into our school garden and tidy it up a bit. We took turns at weeding and planting some potato tubors.

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – There will be no open doors this week. It will resume next week at the usual time.

Homework – All words and sounds every night.

The Longhaugh Garden Centre will be open in the Assembly Hall on Thursday 26th May at 1.30pm

Gardening Mama

May 13, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

We have continued to practice and learn new words this week. We have played phonics games, matching games, used the word bee bot mat and our phonics bibs. We are getting really good at spelling out all our words!

We are still learning about subtraction. We had large hoops in the classroom and some of us had to stand in them. The teacher then took one of us away from the hoop and we had to work out the subtraction sum. We used the butterfly bag again this week and we were practicing take away with the butterflies and leaves and we wrote our sums on leaf books. We also used the butterfly washing line and discussed what was one less, two less etc.

This week we painted our clay pots with Mrs Lynch and stuck sparkly jewels on them ready to sell in our garden centre.

We also decorated paint pots with brightly coloured tissued paper and then painted them with glue to make them shiney and hard.

We each got a pot which we filled with soil and we were all given seeds. There were four different types of flower seeds and we planted them in our pots. We are looking after them and carefully watering them so they will grow into strong, healthy plants we can sell at our garden centre.

We looked at the beans we put into the glass jars last week. The beans that have had sunlight and water have started to sprout and we can see the shoots and the roots. The other beans are not doing so well, but we’re keeping an eye on them. We also planted cress seeds this week so we’re hoping we have cress to put in our sandwiches soon!

This week Mrs Adams and Miss Simpson introduced Gardening Mama on the DS. We were all given a learning partner and we discussed what makes a good learning partner. We were all very excited about playing this game on the DS’s!

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday – 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – words and sounds every night.

Infant Sports afternoon will be on 1st June – details to follow

Bean Experiment

May 6, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

This week we have been extremely busy even though we’ve only been at school for 3 days due to the May holiday and the election.

We have been working hard on our 3 letter words again this week, using matching games, board games, bee bot mats and our phonic vests.

Our teachers introduced subtraction to us this week. We discussed that subtraction means take away and we looked at the sign (-). The butterfly bag was used for the first time. We were given leaves and 5 butterflies and we had to take some butterflies away and practice, with our teacher, writing the sums on the whiteboards. We also used our currant buns masks and sang the song.

As part of our Plants topic, we intend to open a garden centre (details to follow) and make and grow things to sell, just like a real garden centre. This week we made clay tea light holders. We had to make sure they were big enough to hold a candle. Next week we are going to paint them with Mrs Lynch.

We also did a bean experiment. We talked about what beans need to grow and we decided that they need sunlight and water. We had 4 jars and filled the jars with paper and cotton wool. We split into groups and one group put their beans in a jar and watered it and put it on the window sill where it could get light. Another group put their beans into a jar and put it on the window sill but didn’t give it any water. The third group put their beans in a jar, watered it but put it into a dark cupboard away from the light. The fourth group put their beans into a jar and gave it no water and put it into the dark cupboard. We’re going to see how many of the beans grow. We drew the picture and wrote what we thought would happen in our Thinking Books.

In Mrs Lynch’s room the role play area is a pet Shop and we have been learning how to care for animals. There is also to be a gaming pod and this week we have just found out that we are going to have an Eye Pet. The P7’s are going to help us and we all have a learning partner.

We are very excited! We start next week!

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday – 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – words and sounds every night.

Infant Sports afternoon will be on 1st June – details to follow

Royal Wedding

April 28, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

This week we have been continuing to work hard on our addition to 10. We’ve been using our ‘number in our heads’ number lines and adding 1 more, 2 more and 3 more, remembering to start with the bigger number first.

We’ve also been continuing to practice our words and sounds and we’ve been learning and writing three letter words. To help us with this we have been playing matching games, using word lace cards, our word beebot mat and wearing our phonics bibs.

We started our new topic ‘plant’s this week. The new Garden Centre role play area opened and we talked about all the things plants need to grow strong and stay healthy. We found out that last years P1’s had visited a garden centre and we looked at the book they had made. We all agreed that we were really looking forward to learning all about plants and actually growing some plants ourselves!

We painted sunflowers to decorate the garden centre area. This was quite tricky as we had to press our brush down on to the paper to make it look like petals and move the paper round so we were painting in a circle. we had to concentrate hard!

As it is the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on Friday we discussed what we knew about weddings and we looked at photos of the royal couple and other wedding pictures.

To celebrate the day we made a flag that we could wave, aslo we designed a special commemorative plate or a dress fit for a bride. We also had juice, biscuits and played some party games to get us in the wedding spirit!

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday – 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – words and sounds every night.

Infant Sports afternoon will be on 1st June – details to follow

Easter Craft

April 21, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello and welcome back to P1’s blog. We are all really glad to get back to school and back to working hard. We all had a lovely holiday and some of us were very busy and visited some very exciting places. We wrote about all the things we did on our holidays in our thinking books.

We are at school only 4 days this week as we are on holiday on Friday to celebrate Good Friday. We have been discussing Easter, reading the Easter story and talking about how we celebrate Easter.

We made Easter cards with a daffodil on the front. We had to cut paper carefully to get the right shape and stick it on with glue.

We also made chicks. This was an especially tricky job as we had to fold the paper backwards and forwards to make it look like concertinas. We had to concentrate hard to get this right! We then had to stick all our pieces together. We made such a good job our chicks are displayed in the Assembly Hall!

We’ve been revising all our sounds to make sure we still remember them after the spring break. We’ve also been looking at cvc words. We’ve been working with our play dough mats, bee bot mats and lace cards to make and learn new and familiar words.

We’re continuing to work on our addition to 10. We’ve been using number lines and white boards and Luke came back to help us this week with his lily pads! We’ve also started a new number line this week. This special number line is to help us add and help us hold the big number in our head. As you can see the number really is in ‘our head!’

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday – 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – words and sounds every night.