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Teddy Bears Picnic

This is our last week of school before the Easter holidays and we have again been working very hard.

We have continued to revise all our words and sounds everyday and we have been doing our sounds activities stations in the class room. We try to practise as often as possible to sound out and make new words.

  

We looked at the “I can” book and talked about what we are able to do. We wrote our own “I can” sentences sounding out all the words we needed to write.

  

In number this week we have continued to look at money. Role play in our shop has helped us to price the toys correctly and find the correct money and change needed to buy them. We have also had our money stations in the classroom too. We have played money games on the interactive white board, money dominoes, money men and sorted coins etc.

  

In our topic we finished the week with our Teddy Bears picnic. We all discussed our favourite bears and we brought in our own bears to school. We sang teddy bear songs and played team games, with our teddies cheering us on!

  

We then had a snack and finished our picnic with parachute games and an Easter egg hunt. It was a lovely afternoon and the perfect end to our term.

  

  

As it is Easter when we are on holiday, we made our Easter ‘chick’ card this week. We had to, very carefully, draw around our hands then cut them out. This was a tricky job. We also had to use our best handwriting to write our Easter message.

  

On the last day of term we walked to Fintry Parish Church for our Easter/end of term Service. Easter weekend is when we are off school so we celebrated Easter early in our local church. It was a lovely day and a very pleasant walk. The minister, Mr Brough, gave us a lovely sermon and our school choir did us proud as usual and sang some beautiful Easter songs.

The Easter bonnet competition was judged by Mrs McKillop and Mrs Sands. They had such a difficult job as there were so many splendid Easter bonnets.

           P1A entries                           P1B entries                            P1C entries

  

The Winners!!! Well done to all the boys and girls for their superb effort!

   

As we are on holiday there will be no P1 blog for 2 weeks. All of us in P1 and in fact the whole of Longhaugh Primary wish you all a happy and peaceful Easter.

Notices for parents:

Gym P1AWednesday & Friday, P1BThursday and Friday, P1CWednesday 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.

Friday 30th March – School will close for 2 weeks for the Easter holidays. We will re-open on Monday 16th April.

Sports Relief Mile

Welcome to Longhaugh Primary 1’s blog, we have had another very busy week here in P1.

We have been practising our sounds and words everyday, this is especially important  when we are sounding out new words in our reading books and library books. We have continued with our sound stations in our classrooms. This gives us the chance to try all the different activities and we’re getting more confident in sounding out, reading and writing cvc words and short sentences.

  

We have continued to look at money this week and we also had money stations around the classroom. We have been sorting coins, playing money games on the interactive white board, using the money washing line, using the money beebot mats and being the customer/shop assistant in our toy shop. We had to use the correct coins to buy toys if we were pretending to be the customer and give the correct change if we were pretending to be the shop keeper.

   

We have continued to watch small video clips of some famous bears. We have watched Yogi Bear, Pudsey and the Care Bears and we discussed the differences between them.

This week the artist we looked at was Picasso. We looked at several of his famous paintings and discussed his use of regular and irregular shapes. We noticed that in his portraits they didn’t really look like a normal face as he used different shapes and colours to represent features. We drew and coloured in our own portraits in the style of Picasso.

  

The Play Bus visited school this week. The Play Bus encourages us to use our imagination and create our own play and design dens, outside games etc. We loved it at the Play Bus and it was certainly more fun than sitting inside playing our XBox!!

              

Today is Sports Relief Day when thousands of people are running, jogging or walking a mile to raise funds for people around the world who are less fortunate than themselves. At Longhaugh we are all wearing something red and we are all collectively running or walking a mile. The boys and girls in P1a, P1b and P1c ran around the school playing fields twice for their part in the mile. All the funds raised will be going to Sports Relief.

  

              

Notices for parents:

Gym P1AWednesday & Friday, P1BThursday and Friday, P1CWednesday 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.

We are holding an Easter Bonnet Competition in school. Children can design and make their own bonnets using a variety of materials. Completed entries should be in school no later than Wednesday 28th March.

Friday 30th March – School will close for 2 weeks for the Easter holidays. We will re-open on Monday 16th April.

Number Doubles

Hello and welcome again to P1’s blog!

This week we have been revising all our sounds. We have listened to all the Jolly Phonics songs and have been doing all the actions. We have been practising writing all our sounds and making words on our whiteboards.

Again, we have been working on addition using cubes and divided circles. We were working on the stories of 8 and 10.

                          

We have also been learning our number doubles.

                           

Our trip to Montrose Basin is next week so we have been thinking about all the things we might need on our trip. As well as writing our lists in the writing area, we have been writing the things we need to bring in our Thinking Books.

  

We started our new topic, Grannies and Grandads, by looking at coins from the past and from the present. We talked about the different names of all the coins and how they looked different. We took some of the coins we use everyday and did rubbings of them. We also designed our own coins.

  

Notices for Parents :

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

HomeworkWords and sounds every night. Please see  ‘my school trip list’ in blue reading packet. Please ensure items are in school for 24th March.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday3.00pm to 3.15pm