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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.

Run, run, as fast as you can….you can’t catch me, Im the Gingerbread Man!

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This week in P1 we have continued to revise all our sounds and tricky words and practised writing CVC words and simple sentences. Have a look at our stories about our World Book Day character, I think you’ll agree we’ve been trying very hard with our sentence writing.

In number we have continued with addition and we have also looked at sharing. We have talked about halves, quarters,  whole and equal parts. We cut up cakes to show us the different equal parts. We were allowed to eat the cake when we had finished. Yum!

We were invited to Longhaugh Nursery this week to see ‘The Gingerbread Man’. It was a puppet show and we laughed at all the things the puppets did. We knew the story of The Gingerbread Man already so it was extra nice to see the story re-told in a puppet show.

  

Our p5/6 and P6 have been studying Victorians and they held an exhibition in the assembly hall. The whole school was invited to view the exhibition. We were excited when it came to our turn to go and see it. They had researched all about the Victorians and they had made models, drawn pictures and written stories about the food Victorians ate, the clothes they wore, the houses they lived in, the toys the children played with and the schools they went to. We had been looking at toys, schools etc., from the past in our own topic so it was very interesting to see all the work P5/6 and P6 had done.

  

  

Thursday 7th of March was World Book Day. We all came into school dressed as a character from a book. There was Harry Potter, Rapunzel, Spiderman, the Gruffalo, the Lion King etc., all in class.  Even some of the teachers dressed up as their favourite character!

  

We also wrote about our favourite character.

  

It is also Mothers Day on Sunday so we made a card to give to our Mummy. It was a card of three parts and we had to use our best hand writing, our best colouring and our best cutting out to make sure we did  the best job we could for our Mums‘. What do you think?

  

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.

Please check your child’s diary for show and tell.

Toys From Long Ago

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Welcome back to P1’s blog!

We are continuing to revise all our sounds and use them to make words and write simple sentences. Some of us find this really quite tricky so we are going to continue revising and practising. We are also trying to  write new words and sentences when we are doing our topic work.

This week we have been doing lots of different maths activities in Mrs Lynch’s room. We have been counting and putting numbers in order, making patterns with beads and pegs and using different games to help us with our addition.

  

  

              

In our topic we were looking at toys from the past. We watched a short video clip about the different toys children played with long ago. We also looked at information books that showed us pictures of toys from the past and compared them to toys that we have in the present.

We worked with a partner and we drew a picture of a toy from the past and a picture of a toy from the present. We described what they were made from and how they worked.

We also went into our playground and played with toys that children from the past would have played with and we also still play with today. We played hop scotch, rolled hoops, skipped using a long skipping rope and we drew pictures on the playground with chalk.

  

              

This week it was the turn of P1b to visit the pensioners at our local Servite House. We asked them what their house was like when they were little and they told us they didn’t have a washing machine, hot water or a toilet inside their house! Things were very different when they were children. We also took some of our learning games and our reading books and we showed them the kinds of activities we do to help our learning.

  

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.

We are visiting Longhaugh Nursery on Tuesday 5th March to watch a play.

Please check your child’s diary for show and tell.

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.

Past, Present and Future

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Welcome back to a still very snowy Dundee! It’s been snowing all day here and we went outside with our P7 boys and girls into our playground to build snowmen. Have a look at our playground, do you have as much snow where you live? Maybe you can let us know.

              

We have been reading the book, Room on the Broom and we were looking at all sorts of different characters we could sit on the broom. We each drew a character and wrote some words to describe it. We then added our own character into the rhyme, e.g.,

                                       “I am a giraffe as tall as can be.

                                       Is there room on the broom for a giraffe like me?”

Have a look at some of our “Room on the Broom” rhymes.

  

In number this week we continued to look at addition adding 1 more and 2 more. We had to work out tricky sums where the missing number was in the middle.  4+[]=5. This made us think very hard!

We also looked at money this week. We looked at all the different coins. We compared their size, their shape and their colour. We looked at how much thery were worth and we arranged them in order.

In topic this week we looked at our needs and our wants, what that meant and the difference between them. We worked in groups and we were all given a selection of picture cards. We had to decide which of the things we needed and which of the things we wanted. Items that made us healthy and were essential to survive were things we needed. Items that were lovely to have but not essential were things we wanted. This was quite tricky and we had to think long and hard if we really needed some things.

We have been talking about how we grow and to help us discuss and understand what a baby needs to thrive and grow strong, Mr Bluman’s wife Anna brought in their baby son Jackson. We had already thought of some interesting questions to ask Anna.

              

We also have a past, present and future wall in our corridor. We all brought in photos of ourselves as babies. Next to that we have a picture of ourselves as we are now and we then drew a picture of how we think we will look in the future when we are adults. Some of us thought we might be a mummy or a daddy. Some of us thought we might be a fireman or a policeman, and some of us thought we might be a dancer on the stage with purple hair. Who knows what we will be, but it’s exciting to think about our future!

  

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.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow….

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Welcome to a very wintery and snowy Dundee! Is it snowing where you are? Maybe you could let us know if you’ve had snow as well?!

We were looking at rhyme this week. We were matching picture cards, listening to stories and trying to predict the rhyme. We also listened to nonsense rhymes which made us giggle….a lot! We then had to try and think of our own rhymes. This was really quite tricky!

                   

We are continuing to use all our sounds knowledge to make words and we’re trying to make more tricky words using our phonics cubes.

                                     

We continued with addition this week adding on 1 more, 2 more and 3 more.

              

We have been learning about our bodies and looking at human growth. That just means we’re looking at how we’ve changed. We have brought in photographs of ourselves as babies and we have been discussing the changes our bodies have made and how different we now look. We will be learning about the changes our bodies will make as we grow and get older.

We have our baby clinic in P1A classroom and a G.P. came to visit and talked to us about a real baby clinic. He told us how to hold a baby, to protect its head, and that the clinic would weigh and measure the baby and check its heart, lungs etc. We got to listen to our own hearts.

              

              

We have been practising our cutting skills in the afternoon, because the more you practise the better you get! This week we were cutting out the shape of a body and then cutting out winter clothes to put on it. This was an extremely tricky job! One or two of us accidently cut off legs and arms but we were able to save them thanks to sticky tape! We needed lots of concentration for this job!

              

P1C painted their photo frames this week. If you remember, last week we stuck scrunched up tissue paper onto our frames and left them to dry. They are looking lovely and golden and shiney. We’ve just to put our pictures in them.

              

We were balancing in gym this week. Balancing is quite tricky and you need to concentrate. We balanced on our own and sometimes we worked as a team.

  

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday for P1A and P1C and a Tuesday and a Wednesday for P1B. 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. Open doors will restart on Friday 18th January.

Donald……Whar’s yer Troosers??

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This week have have continued to recap all our sounds and tricky words every day. We have also been doing sounds activities, practising blending and making CVC words.

We have also been sentence building. We have been writing simple sentences about ourselves using our name and our age and sentences using the tricky words we’ve been learning.

              

We have continued to work on addition this week using the adding circles, the ladybirds and writing our sums on our white boards.

              

We had our sponsored walk this week. We walked around our local area looking for any signs of Autumn and any other signs we could spot that told us the weather and seasons were changing. Although is was a lovely, bright day it was very cold so we certainly knew the weather had changed to the beginning of Winter!

              

              

Not only were we getting sponsored for our walk but we were all wearing silly hats!! We had a ‘hat parade’ before we left school and Mr Munro chose first, second and third place!

  

Well done to the winners!

                             

This week is Scottish Book Week. We painted characters from books we enjoy and put them in our library area.

              

We also got a book bag from our local library when we visited for our story time. We are very lucky indeed and on Friday the whole school dressed up as a character from a book!

  

The P7’s came into our classes to help us celebrate Scottish Book Week. They read us stories and we even read some of our little stories to them!

  

The 30th of November is St Andrew’s Day. St Andrew is Scotland’s patron saint and in celebration of this we held a party at school. All the P1’s, P2’s and P3’s  joined in. We watched a power point which showed us lots of things about Scotland and why is is a very special country. P3 performed their dance from their Katie Morag topic. Then there was a special treat from Andromeda who is in P7. She goes to highland dancing and she performed 2 highland dances for us.

              

              

Then we sang some Scottish songs we had been learning, this included Ye Cannie Shove Yer Granny aff a Bus and Donald Whar’s Yer Troosers.

  

We played the 4 corners game (Scottish style) and we played Scottish jig jumps. This is our St Andrew’s Day version of musical bumps to Scottish music!

We then went back to our class for a well deserved piece of short bread and a glass of Irn Bru!

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday for P1A and P1C and a Tuesday and a Wednesday for P1B. 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 P1’s now have a twitter account. Please follow our page. To search for our page…..search @p1_longhaugh

We are still awaiting permission slips to be returned to school. Please return these as soon as possible.

 

What’s the temperature today? P1 will tell you!

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Hello there and welcome back to our blog!

We continue to revise our sounds every day, just so we don’t forget any of them. We have been going over our tricky words and using our tricky words to make sentences. We practised writing our sounds and our sentences  making sure we were using our best handwriting.

              

We were also working on consonant blends. These can be quite tricky and we have been playing some matching games to help us.

                              

We have been looking at the number stories of 4, 5, 6 and 7 this week. We have also been working on our adding sums using our adding circles. We then made our own sums and wrote them out on our white boards. We have also been working in our number books drawing and writing 1 more and 2 more.

              

In 1A we have continued to monitor and record the temperature every day in our weather station. Some mornings it has been quite chilly!

                             

This week we made trees for our Autumn board and our Winter board. We drew around our hands and cut them out. We used these to make the leaves on our trees. We also cut strips of brown paper and crepe paper to make all different sizes of branches and twigs to add to our trees. We had gathered leaves from our playground and we painted them different autumnal colours. We then carefully pressed them onto paper to make leaf prints. When they are dry, we are going to cut them out and add them onto our trees.

  

  

In 1B we have been looking at the seasons. As we are going out for our Autumn walk on Thursday we decided to discuss the different seasons. What makes them different? In what way does the weather change? What do we wear when the weather is warm, when it is cold and when it is rainy etc.? We discussed what months of the year are in Spring, what months of the year are in Summer, what months of the year are in Autumn and what months of the year are in Winter.

We painted a seasons display and we are going to finish painting children on our back drop all wearing the appropriate clothes for the time of year.

  

In 1C we read our Percy book again and then watched the film, Percy the Park Keeper. We talked about what we liked and what we didn’t like about the book and the film and which of the two we preferred. We used active expressions to vote on our favourite.

  

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday for P1A and P1C and a Tuesday and a Wednesday for P1B. 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 P1’s now have a twitter account. Please follow our page. To search for our page…..search @p1_longhaugh

We are still awaiting permission slips to be returned to school. Please return these as soon as possible.

Thursday 29th November – sponsored walk changed to Thursday. Please bring in your silly hat to school by Tuesday 27th November.

Friday 30th November – Come to school dressed as a character from a book.