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Whole School Trip to the Cinema

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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.

  

 

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

Gardening Mama

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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