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P1b Assembly

May 18, 2012 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

Hello there and a welcome return to Longhaugh Primary’s P1 blog!

We have continued to revisit and revise all our sounds. We have had phonics stations in our classrooms and we have moved around all the activities varying our learning experiences.

In number this week we have continued to revise addition. We used Jack’s magic beans again but this time we were given 10 beans. We worked in pairs and wrote out addition sums on giant sheets of paper.

We were also given new number lines this week. Not just any ordinary number line but one with our heads on it! We have been learning to put the larger number first when we are adding. We keep the bigger number in our head then add on the smaller number to get the answer. This number line helps us to remember to do this as we move “our head” to the big number on our number line. Our “head” keeps that number there so we can then add on the smaller number. Ingenious!

We planted some more seeds this week. This time it was sunflower seeds. We are hoping that our seeds grow into healthy plants then we can move them into bigger pots and take them home. We think our sunflowers will grow to be taller than us?

Our school garden was needing a good tidy up as the weeds have been growing due to all the rain we’ve had. We took it in turns to pull out all the weeds and make sure the garden was looking beautiful.

As we planted sunfowers this week we decided to paint our own sunflowers. We used the flat of the brush to make the petal shape and rotated the paper so we could paint in a circle. We also mixed colours to show the graduation of the colours of the petals. Don’t they look nice?

This week it was the turn of P1b to showcase all their hard work to the school and their families in their assembly. They talked about all the sounds they had learned and the different ways they had learned them. We sang the songs of some of their favourite sounds and they showed us the correct way to write them.Now that they know all the sounds, they told us they can now write words and short sentences. A lot of hard work had gone into their assembly and we all enjoyed it very much. Well done P1b!

Notices for parents:

Gym – P1A –Wednesday & Friday, P1B – Thursday and Friday, P1C – Wednesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school. Also please note that all jewellery must be removed for gym.

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

The school will be closed to pupils on Friday 25th May 2012 for staff in-service training.

P1c Assembly

May 11, 2012 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

We have been revising all our sounds this week and using those sounds to make CVC words in our workbooks and write short sentences in our thinking books.

We had a re-cap on addition this week. Our teacher hid eggs around the room. She said, “the Giant has one egg, can you find four eggs, how many do you have altogether?” Once we had found the correct amount of eggs we wrote our sum on a piece of paper. We then had to do the same again, but this time look for Jack’s beans! This was a fun way of reminding ourselves of addition.

This week in our topic we discussed our favourite foods. We had to decide whether we liked sausages, pizza, chicken or spaghetti bolognaise best. Once we had all made our decision we recorded our answers on a tick sheet. We then transferred all our answers to record them on a bar graph.

We then thought to ourselves…..what would the Giant like to eat? So we got a giant plate and lots of different colours of paper and we got to work with our scissors and made the giant a meal. Some of us made him pizza, some of us made him sausages and some of us thought he might like noodles. We think he would enjoy all our meals!

P1c had their class assembly this week. All the other pupils and teachers came to watch and we invited all our parents/carers. Our assembly was about all the number work we have been learning since starting school. We talked about counting from 0 to 10 and back again and counting in 10’s from 0 all the way to 100. We also did some addition sums. We talked about telling the time on analogue and digital clocks and we also sang the Days of the Week Song and 10 Green Bottles. Everyone seemed to enjoy it very much and told us what a good job we had done!

Well done P1c!

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

Mid Term

February 9, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello and welcome everyone! A short week at school this week as we are closed to pupils on Thursday for staff in-service training and also on Friday and Monday for the mid term holiday!

We learned our last sound this week, we have learned 40 sounds in total! Wow! This week’s sound was ‘ar’.

The action for ‘ar’ is to open your mouth as if the doctor is checking your throat and say ‘ar,ar,ar,ar’.

This week in our number work we have continued to practise recognising and writing our numbers to 10, ordering them and finding the number before, after and in between. We have, however, also been learning our number doubles and near doubles.

In our water topic this week we did a “waterproof and not waterproof” experiment. We had an object each and we tested it in the water to see if it was waterproof or not waterproof. We found out that a raincoat was waterproof as the water just ran off but woolly socks, although they would keep us warm, were not waterproof and they soaked up the water. We recorded our findings on a sheet.

We also looked at another sea creature this week. We read a factual book about an octopus. We found out they have 8 legs called tentacles and they squirt ink when they feel threatened. They do this to scare off other creatures that want to attack them. Miss simpson made a playdough octopus and put it into a glass bowl filled with water. She then squirted ink into the water just as an octopus would do if it got scared. The ink transformed the water and the octopus was completely hidden!

We made our own Octopus by tearing and sticking pieces of paper on to a plastic cup, then curling paper strips and gluing them on to make the 8 legs.

We read the Lighthouse Keeper’s Picnic and added this to our storybook chain. We drew a picture about this story and wrote a sentence in our thinking books.

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

The school will be closed on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Monday 13th of February for in service training and the mid term holiday.

The Lighthouse Keeper

February 3, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello everyone!

Apologies that there wasn’t a P1 blog last week, Mrs Lynch was ill and unfortuately wasn’t able to post any of our news. Here is a brief snapshot of what we learned last week:

We learned the sounds ‘ou’ and ‘oi’. In our number work we continued to use our ladybird maths box and coat hangers and pegs to help us with our adding. Our teachers introduced our new water topic and we talked about lighthouses and how they help ships in very stormy waters. We talked about the Bell Rock lighthouse that is near us and we watched a power point. We will be reading the ‘Lighthouse Keepers’ books and Mr Gringling, the lighthouse keeper, left his large wellies in our classroom!! Each of the classes made a lighthouse for their room. We also read the Rainbow Fish and cut out scales from shiny paper and stuck them on to our fish.

Now on to this week.

We learned the sounds ‘ue’ and ‘er’ this week.

The action for ‘ue’ is to point your finger at people and say, ‘ue,ue,ue,ue.’ The action for ‘er’ is to roll your hands round and around each other as if they were a mixer and say ‘er,er,er,er.’

In number we met Luke and the lily pads again and he helped us with place value. We worked on ordering numbers and finding the number before, after and in between. We also used our Teddy Bear washing lines to help us with this too.

We still continued to work on our addition but this time we were using a number line, and……we are getting very good at it!

This week in our water topic we did a floating and sinking experiment. Our teachers gave us lots of objects. We talked about what they were made of and we had to predict whether we thought they would float or sink. After the experiment we recorded our findings on a sheet.

We read a factual book about sea creatures, specifically star fish and we learned how many legs they have and that their mouths are on the bottom of the starfish and not on the top. We made a star fish by tearing and scrunching tissue paper and carefully gluing it on.

In health this week we looked at healthy eating and the foods that are good for us and give us energy and the foods that are not so good. We designed a healthy sandwich for Mr Gringling, the lighthouse keeper. We drew the filling and then wrote what we had chosen for him.

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

The school will be closed on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Monday 13th of February for in service training and the mid term holiday.

Two Letters Arrive!

January 20, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

A very warm welcome back to Longhaugh Primary 1’s blog.

This week we learned another 2 sounds. They were ‘th’ and ‘qu’.

The action for ‘th’ is to stick your tongue out and pretend you are a cheeky clown and say “th,th,th.” The action for ‘qu’ is to open and shut your hands pretending they are a ducks beak and say ‘qu,qu,qu.’

We have continued using the ladybird maths box and divided circles this week helping us with our addition to 10. We have also used our flip flop books. They are very clever books that help us work our the different number stories to 10 when we fold them in different ways.

In the Land of Me this week we received 2 special letters. The first one was from Yama San, the monkey. He invited us to look at shape, size and colour with him. We changed Buddy Boo, Willow and Eric into different objects. We played a game of pretend and play and talked about what we would look like if we changed our shape, or our size, or our colour. We drew our ideas in our thinking books.

Our second letter was from Anthony the aardvark. He and his ants live in the desert and build lots of things using lots of different materials. He invited us to try and build things with him using all sorts of materials, e.g., a castle made from jelly! We discovered that some materials are no use for building. We found out that a pedalo made from paper would sink in the water. That’s no use. We drew our own pictures. Some of us drew things made from strong building materials like brick and wood and some of us drew pictures of buildings made from jelly or custard or something very silly.

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

Your child has received a copy of the scottish poem, “Pussie at the Fireside”. Please help your child to learn this poem.

Our Christmas Shop is Open!

December 9, 2011 Mrs Lynch 2 Comments

Welcome back to our blog! We have been incredibly busy this week and have managed to fit a lot of exciting learning into the last 5 school days.

Even though it is very close to Christmas we still managed to learn more sounds. This week we learned ‘ie’ and ‘ee, or’.

The action for ‘ie’ is to put your hand to your forehead and pretend to salute and say “ie,ie,ie,ie“. The action for ‘ee, or’ is to put your hands on top of your head and make donkey’s ears. Make the ears stand up and say ‘ee’ then make the ears flop and say ‘or’.

We continued with our ladybird maths box this week and we worked on the stories of 7. We put the dots on the ladybird and then wrote the sum on our white boards.

We have been extremely busy this week with our Christmas activities. Our Christmas shop opened and all the classes came down on a rota basis and bought lovely gifts for their family and friends. We even provided a wrapping service! We have made a lot of money for the school through our Christmas shop and we’d like to thank all the parents/carers and children who donated and bought all the wonderful gifts.

We also made snowmen paper chains to decorate our classes.

We have been rehearsing for our nativity, We Three Kings, every day this week and we had our dress rehearsal on Friday which we performed to the whole school. We did very well and everybody thought it was marvellous. We have 2 productions next week for our families.

We were also very lucky and went to visit Santa in his grotto. We listened to a Christmas story and sang lots of Christmas songs. we all got to have a chat with Santa and he gave us a gift. We had a marvellous afternoon!

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Open doors will resume on Thursday 12th January 2012.

Christmas show – Tickets for the show will be on sale from Monday 28th November – Dates of show Tuesday 13th December at 9.45am and Wednesday 14th December at 1.45pm. Tickets cost £2.00, this includes tea/coffee and programme.

Christmas Party – Monday 19th December – Please give your child 50p towards party food.

St Andrew’s Day

December 2, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello and welcome back to our blog. Only another 3 more blogs until Christmas! my goodness where has the time gone? This is a very busy time of year at school and we have been very busy indeed!

We have learned another 2 sounds this week. They are ‘ai’ and ‘oa’.

The action for ‘ai’ is to to put your hand behind your ear as if you were hard of hearing and say, ‘ai ai ai ai’. The action for ‘oa’ is to but your hand to your mouth in surprise and say, ‘oa oa oa oa’.

We continued to work with the ladybird maths box this week. We put spots on the ladybirds to make our sums and wrote them on our white boards. It’s tricky but we’re getting the hang of it!

We’ve also been using our number buses to help us too. We draw the passengers on the top of the bus and some more passengers on the bottom deck of the bus and then we write our adding sum counting both decks altogether.

In the Land of Me we know that Granny Olive loves to tell stories in her story cave. We can’t go into the woods and build our own cave, so we thought it would be a good idea to go into the hall and build our own story caves for Granny Olive using our construction material. I think you’ll agree we made a very good job!

It’s getting nearer to Christmas and there will be a great many things going on over the next few weeks. Our Christmas shop opens on Monday so we had lots of things to do for that.

We priced all the gifts.

We put them all on the shelves in the shop.

We made decorations to hang in our shop so it looked Christmasy and inviting! We made snowflakes, paper chains and we printed wrapping paper.

Our Christmas Nativity is in 2 weeks so we have been rehearsing for that and also practising the dances for our Christmas party!!! My goodness we have been busy.

St Andrew’s day was on Wednesday the 30th November. We talked about St Andrew and that he is the patron saint of Scotland. We weaved some of our own tartan from paper and we listened to bagpipe music and scottish songs. To end our celebrations we had a drink of juice and some shortbread.

It has also all changed in Mrs Lynch’s room. We now have a festive Christmas room. We set the table for 4 people, remembering where the cutlery goes and we decorate the tree with baubles but we have to make sure we put them on in a pattern! Our number line is now Christmas crackers and we put them in the right order. We wear santa hats to put us in the mood for all our Christmas writing jobs.

Another very busy week in P1 at Longhaugh Primary School!

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – There will be no more open doors until we come back after the holidays. It will resume on Thursday 12th january 2012. Please return any outstanding library books a.s.a.p.

Christmas show – Please give your child their costume in a plastic bag with their name on it by Friday 9th December as this is our dress rehearsal day. Also please help your child practise and learn their lines for the show.

Tickets for the show will be on sale from Monday 28th November – Dates of show Tuesday 13th December at 9.45am and Wednesday 14th December at 1.45pm. Tickets cost £2.00, this includes tea/coffee and programme.

Christmas Fayre – Saturday 3rd December – 10.00am – 12 noon.

Christmas shop opens to pupils on Monday 5th December. Prices ranges from 50p to £5.00.

Ladybird Maths Box

November 25, 2011 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

Hello! Welcome to Longhaugh Primary P1 blog.

We have learned another 2 sounds this week. Our new sounds are ‘y’ and ‘x’.

The action for ‘y’ is to lift your hand to your mouth as if you are pretending to eat yoghurt with a spoon and say ‘yyyyy’. The action for ‘x’ is to pretend you’re holding an x-ray gun and say ‘xxxxx’.

Our teachers introduced us to the ladybird maths box this week This box helps us with our addition. We had our blank ladybird sheets and we also had playdough. We made spots out of the playdough for our ladybirds and then we added both sides together to find our how many spots the ladybird had all together. We then wrote our sum on our white boards. We know how to do this as our teachers have been talking to us about the + sign and the = sign.

Our Ladybird Maths Box

In the Land of Me this week we received another letter. This time it was from Granny Olive! Granny Olive is a turtle and she reads stories. We visited the Land of Me and we listened to Granny Olive telling us a funny adventure story about Buddy Boo, Willow and Eric. It was very exciting!

Granny Olive!

We’re starting to get ready for all the activities that we have planned for Christmas. We are rehearsing for our Christmas show and we have been learning all the songs and all our lines. We have also been designing tickets and programmes for the show.

We started to make our Christmas craft ready to sell at our Christmas Fayre.

We have also been writing out price tickets to put on all the gifts ready to sell at our Christmas shop. We have been painting Santa and the elves with Mrs Lynch, ready to decorate our shop and printing paper to make gift wrap ready to wrap all the presents that the other boys and girls are going to buy from our shop! Phew!!!

We also have a P1 display to make for our Assembly Hall. This year each class or stage have to make a picture about a Christmas song. We have chosen ‘When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney!’

As you can see we have been very busy indeed and this will continue right up to the end of term!

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing.

Christmas show – Please give your child their costume in a plastic bag with their name on it as soon as possible. Also please help your child practise and learn their lines for the show.

Christmas Fayre – Saturday 3rd December – 10.00am – 12 noon.

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.