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St Andrew’s Day

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:

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 – 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 December10.00am12 noon.

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

Ladybird Maths Box

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:

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. 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.

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 December10.00am12 noon.

 

Three Special Visitors

We have had another busy week in P1 at Longhaugh Primary School!

We learned 2 more sounds this week. They were ‘w’ and ‘v’. We listened to the stories, sang the songs, looked at all the objects on the sounds table, wrote in the air with our magic writing finger and practised the sounds on our white boards.

                 

The action for ‘w’ is to put your hands to your mouth and pretend to blow like wind and say ‘wwwwww’. The action for ‘v’ is to pretend you’re holding a steering wheel and driving a van and say ‘vvvvv’.

              

We have been continuing to practise our sounds and words every day and we have been practising sounding out and writing words in Mrs Lynch’s room.

                                            

In number work this week we have been counting on one and two more. There are large number leaves in Bramble Wood and we have been practising our number recognition and the number before and the number after with Mrs Lynch. We had to think hard to jump onto the correct ‘leaf’.

              

We were also counting on 2 more. We used hoops and added 2 more children, we made a tower of cubes and added 2 more and put beads on a string and added 2 more. We then wrote the number on our white boards. We also met Mummy Frog, she counts in two’s so she was helping us. We will meet her again over the course of the school year.

  

Three very special visitors from the Land of Me came to visit us. They were an owl called Willow, a bear called Buddy Boo and a raccoon called Eric.

                                          

They told us that they love to go on adventures and they wanted us to take them home and go on imaginary adventures with us! Well, we thought this was a fantastic idea. Willow went into P1A, Eric went into P1B and Buddy Boo went into P1C. Willow went on an exciting adventure with Keira, Eric went on a fun adventure with Warren and Buddy Boo went on a scary adventure with Megan. The boys and girls wrote and drew their adventures in the ‘Book of Adventures’ so we can all share them. We can’t wait until it’s our turn to go on an adventure too!

  

We also painted hedgehogs to put in Bramble Wood. We used sponges and brown paint to make them look spiky.

  

It’s only a few weeks until we open our Christmas shop and have our Christmas party, so this week we have started to make gift tags for the shop and we have have been practising our dances in gym for the party. We think we’ll soon be as good as the dancers on Strictly Come Dancing!

  

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. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing.

Non Uniform Day – Friday 25th November. Please bring in a tombola gift instead of a fine.

Sponsor Money – Please hand into school all sponsor money.

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.

A Short Week!

Hello everyone and welcome!

This is a short week for us as the school is closed to pupils on Thursday and Friday for staff in-service training. We have, however, managed to fit a lot of exciting learning into 3 days. I’m sure you will agree.

We learned one sound this week and that was ‘z’. The action for ‘z’ is to pretend you are a bee. Tuck your elbows to your side, flap your hands and say “zzzzzzzzzz.”

              

We have continued to practise our words and sounds every day, and more of us have been able to take a book home to read. We are working our way through the ‘Miss Owen’ stories.

In number this week we have been using number flashcards and practising writing our numbers on our white boards. We have been counting to 10 and putting spots on laminated sheets to help us count.

On Monday we were very lucky to have M&M Productions at school and we all watched Sleeping Beauty. It was super fun! not too scary! We all sang along with the songs.

Strange things have also been happening! Bramble woods arrived along with a letter from the animals who are going to share our adventures in the Land of Me. We don’t know yet who they are or where they came from, but we watched video clips of animals in their natural habitat and looked at information books that they’d left us. We recorded our learning in our thinking books. 

                                             
                                              Bramble Woods

              

We went on our sponsored Autumn walk. Unfortunately, it was a dark, drizzly day but it didn’t stop us from having fun. We looked at all the changing colours on the trees and bushes and we picked up some interesting leaves etc.

     

We then had a sheet of paper headed – “What I found on my Autumn Walk” and stuck on all the interesting bits and pieces we had found.

  

Here are some of them.

  

We won’t be at school on Remembrance Day, so we talked about why we remember all the men and women who have died fighting for us and why we remember them with a poppy. We also talked about the fact that it wasn’t just about remembering wars that had happened a long time ago, men and women were still fighting and being killed and injured in Afghanistan. Some of us knew people who were out in Afghanistan.

We made poppies of our own to remember them.

  

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. There will be no open doors on Thursday 10th November, it will resume the following week on Thursday 17th November.

Land of Me story bags will be handed out on Monday, please go over them with your child.

Please continue to practise the speaking parts for P1’s Christmas show with your child.

Autumn Festivals

We have had another very busy week. We have been going over our sounds and words every day and are trying hard to make words with all the sounds we’ve learned. The boys and girls who have been given a reading book, took home another 2 books over the course of the week. The other children will be receiving their book soon too. Keep learning your words!

Our two new sounds this week are ‘b’ and ‘j’.

              

 The action for ‘b’ is to pretend you’re holding a cricket bat and away to strike the ball. The action for ‘j’ is to jiggle your body like jelly on a plate!

                                                  

We have been busy again this week in Mrs Lynch’s room and we have been working hard using all the sounds  we have learned to complete these jiglets and to make 3 letter words.

  

We continue to revise all the numbers from 0-10 and have been practising writing them on our whiteboards. We have been working on the Teddy bear washing line, sorting and matching all the numbers.

             

This week we have been working on ‘one more than’. We have been using hoops, beads and cubes counting on one more.

                                        

Luke has been helping us too. We had to put his lily pads in the correct order. Our teacher said a number  and we had to jump on ‘one more’ to the next number. Luke thought we all did this very well indeed!

   

There were more footprints in our classrooms and maps arrived in each room.  We worked out that it was a map of the Land of Me! We looked at the map and saw the desert, the hot springs, the loch, Bramble Woods, the mountain tops, the river bank and Me River. Our teachers gave us pictures of squirrels, bears, beavers, camels, canoes, suns etc. We talked about where they would go on the map. Would they go on a hot part, a cold part, where there is water or mountains? We had to think hard and work it out.

  

We now know our adventure is to be in the ‘Land of Me’, but where about and when……..

Our teachers also introduced the topic of Autumn and Autumn festivals. We discussed that different people in different parts of the world and of different religions celebrate different festivals. We found out Hindus celebrate Diwali, the festival of light. Diwali was last week (26.10.11) and we made our own clay diva lamps and put tea lights in them.

  

We also made rangoli patterns using black paper and chalk. Rangoli is a traditional way of decorating walls, courtyards and places of worship and is done during Diwali. We made our own, don’t they look splendid?

  

As Bonfire  night is this weekend, we found out about Guy Fawkes and his attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London on the 5th of November 1605. We talked about why we celebrate this day with a bonfire and fireworks,but we also talked about how important it is for us to keep safe and how dangerous fireworks can be if you’re not sensible. We made a firework using wax crayons and an ink wash and we put different coloured paper on the end!

             

Miss Simpson, Miss Bonnar, Mrs Rooney and Mrs Lynch would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parents/carers for supporting the children and providing a gift for our Christmas shop. We were overwhelmed by your generosity and have an abundance of fabulous gifts. Details of the opening times of the P1 Christmas shop will follow. Thank you again.

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.  There will be no open doors on Thursday 10th November, it will resume the following week on Thursday 17th November.

In-service days Thursday and Friday, 10th and 11th November. School will be closed to pupils on these days.

Autumn Walk8th November – sponsor forms were put  in the childrens’ bags on Monday 31st October. Please remember to wear wellies and bring a carrier bag for collecting leaves etc.

Parts for P1’s Christmas show to be given out on Thursday 3rd November. Please start learning lines.

Glad to be Back at School!

A warm welcome back to Longhaugh Primary 1 blog after our 2 week October break. We are all delighted to be back at school and are already working very hard!

We also welcome Mrs Rooney to Longhaugh Primary School, she is P1C’s new teacher. We are sure she will be very happy here and is a wonderful new addition to our school family.

We have learned a further 2 sounds. This week’s sounds are ‘l’ and ‘f’.

                        

The action for ‘l’ is to pretend you are licking a lolly and say ‘l l l l‘and the action for ‘f’ is to put one hand above the other and slowly bring your top hand down to meet the bottom hand as if you were squeezing the air from an inflatable toy saying ‘f f f f’.

              

As we have been away from school for 2 weeks, we have spent time this week revising our sounds and words. Some of us knew all our words and we have been given our first book to take home! This is very exciting and we will be reading our new book with our families every night!

  

We have also been revising all of our numbers from 0-10. Singing our number songs and rhymes and practising all the numbers on our white boards. We sang the song ’10 Green Bottles’ and we filled the bottles with the correct amount of cubes.

                

We met a new friend the week. Our teachers introduced us to Luke. Luke is a very special frog and he comes to visit us with his lily pads. Luke jumps on his lily pads in 1’s and he will be helping us with our numbers. After meeting and working with Luke, we drew what we had learned in our thinking books. We will hopefully meet Mummy Frog soon, she jumps on the lily pads in 2’s.

  

We started the topic ‘Land of Me’ this week. Lots of different animal footprints were left in our classrooms. All the footprints led to a backpack inviting us on an adventure! Who left us the backpack? Where are we going to go? What will we need? Over the next few weeks we will be finding out!

                               

We all thought about what we would need to take with us on an adventure and our teachers wrote all our ideas on a large piece of paper and we wrote our ideas in our thinking books.  We also designed our own backpacks.

                                        

   

We also started to look at Autumn and Autumn festivals. We will soon be going on a sponsored Autumn walk and will be looking at the way the trees and plants change around us.

As Halloween is on Monday, we had our school Halloween party today. We made paper plate lanterns to decorate our classrooms.

We had fabulous fun at our party. We all dressed up in spooky costumes and had a fancy dress parade. Mrs Jenkins chose the winners although she said it was very hard to choose as we all looked fantastic!

                 the winners!

We played musical bumps and musical statues, we ducked for apples and had to put our hands into gooey jelly and sticky spaghetti to find creepy eyeballs and skulls! Yuck! After all that hard work we were ready for our drink of juice and snack.

  

  

  

Pirates have arrived in Mrs Lynch’s room! We have to find buried numbers and sounds in the sand tray, then record our findings on a grid. We are making pirate hats and masks at the art and craft area and in the role play area we count our loot in the treasure chest. Shiver me timbers!!

  

 

I’m sure you’ll agree, what a busy week we’ve had?

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. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing.

Non Uniform Day – Friday 4th November. Please bring in a gift instead of a fine.

Autumn Walk8th November – sponsor forms will be in the childrens’ bags on Monday 31st October.

Parts for P1’s Christmas show will be given out on Thursday 3rd November. Please start learning lines.

October Holidays

This is our last blog for 2 weeks as we are off for the October holidays from Friday 7th October!

We have learned another 2 sounds this week, this brings our total so far to 15! Our new sounds are ‘o’ and ‘u’.

  

The action for ‘o’ is to to move you finger backwards and forwards as if you are putting a light switch on and off. The action for ‘u’ is to clench your fists and put one fist on top of the other. Lift the top hand up and down as if you were opening up an umbrella.

                      

We also looked at our next book, A Monster For Miss Owen, and added two new words to our list and word wall. Our new words are ‘yes’ and ‘you’.

                        

We revised all our numbers to 10 this week. We added numbers and teddies to our number washing line and practised ordering and writing the numbers.

                       

Our teachers read us the story Ten in a Bed and they made a bed up in the classroom with teddies in it and we acted out the story. We sang the song and we had to take a teddy out of the bed one at a time and then see how many were left in. We drew the story on our white boards.

  

To finish off our topic for this term we all went for a walk around the school. We looked at the building, the shelters, all the play grounds and went out the bigger boys and girls door to see where they lined up. It was nice to see parts of the school that we don’t usually see.

  

It is with great sadness that we are saying goodbye to Mrs Weir this week. Mrs Weir has been appointed a Principal Teachers post at St Fergus Primary School in Dundee. Although We wish her all the very best in her new job, the boys and girls of Longhaugh Primary and especially Miss Simpson, Miss Bonnar and Mrs Lynch will miss her very much.

Good luck Mrs Weir! We hope that you will let us know how you’re settling in at your new school.

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. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing. Open Doors will resume after the holidays on Thursday 27th October 2011.

End of term Friday 7th October 2011. School will re start on Monday 24th October 2011.

 

People Who Help Us

Hello and a very warm welcome to our blog!

We have been revising all our sounds this week, singing the songs, doing the actions and reading the flash cards. We have learned another 2 sounds, they are ‘d’ and ‘g’.

     

The action for ‘d’ is to move our hands up and down as if we are playing a drum and say “d d d d d d.” The action for ‘g’ is to move our hand in a swirling action like water gurgling down the drain and say “g g g g g.” Here we are doing the actions for the sounds and also looking at the water ‘gurgling’ down the the drain!

     

We have looked at our Pattern Bear books this week, admiring all the pictures  of the patterns that the boys and girls have taken. We have also been making lots of patterns using cubes, beads and pegs.

   

We have been revising shape. We read a story all about shape and we made a rocket using squares, rectangles and triangles. We then had to think of something we wanted to make and make our own picture only using squares, rectangles, triangles and circles. Here are some of the pictures we made below, I’m sure you’ll agree we made a very good job! It was tricky cutting all the shapes out!

  

  

We learned number 10 this week! We read the number 10 story, sang 10 green bottles, put number 10 on our teddy bear washing line and practised writing number 10 and all our numbers on our white boards.

  

As part of our topic we have been talking and learning about all the people who help us at Longhaugh Primary School. Mrs Lynch took a group of children around the school to interview some members of staff. We had to think up some questions and we recorded our interviews on a microphone and a flip cam. We were very professional!

  

We then had to choose a member of staff from our school and draw them in our Thinking Books.

  

Our P7 boys and girls are holding a laughathon on our school playing fields on Saturday1st October to raise funds for our school. They will be running around the playing fields 15 times. If this is not difficult enough they will be running in fancy dress!! Please come along from 10.00 am to 12 noon and support our primary 7’s. Refreshments will be available.

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. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing.

Two children from each class have been chosen to be their class gardeners and help in our school garden. Please ensure your child brings in old clothes to school to wear whilst gardening.

P1A – Daniel Owler and Annalise Edwards

P1B – Brandon Ringsell and Courtney Keil

P1C – Robbie Gibb and Megan Wilson

End of term – 7th October 2011

Healthy Eating in Primary 1

Hello and welcome back to our 4th blog of Primary 1. We have had another very busy week and have been working very hard.

We looked at the book “The Lost Storybook” and learned the words, can, see, it and is. We put them into our blue packets and circled them on our word wall.

We also learned the sounds ‘r’ and ‘m’. We read the Jolly Phonics story and sang our Jolly Phonics song. We first of all practised with our magic writing finger then wrote the new sounds on our white boards.

 

                           

  

The action for ‘r’ is to pretend we are a puppy who has got a rag in his mouth and say r,r,r,r,r. The action for ‘m’ is to rub our tummy with our hand pretending we have just eaten something extremely tasty and say m,m,m,m.

                            

In Mrs Lynch’s room we have again been practising all our sounds and trying to use these sounds to make new words. We have also been putting the words we have been learning for homework every night onto the floor and practising making sentences. We also use the rhyming boxes to match all the rhyming objects together.

  

We have been going over all the numbers from 0-7,  practising them on our white boards, sorting them on our number washing lines. we also learned the numbers ‘8’ and ‘9’. We sang the rhyme 8 Little Fingers and 9 Little Fingers and used our magic writing finger to form the numbers correctly in the air and then practised on our white boards before completing our El Nombre number sheet.

  

We have been learning to play dominoes with Mrs Lynch. We have to divide the dominoes equally between us and whoever gets the double 6 starts! We have to remember to count the spots and match them. It takes a lot of concentration.

                                                  

This week we have been talking about our tuck shop and healthy playpieces. Our teachers set out play pieces and we had to decide which were healthy and which were unhealthy and they explained why certain foods are good for us and why certain foods are not. Mrs Johnstone, our Healthy Eating Assistant, made up fruit platters and we all got to taste some healthy snacks. She told us about all the things that are in our own school tuck shop and we put a price list into our blue packets.

     

We continued our healthy eating theme into our art this week. We tore up coloured paper into little pieces and stuck them onto the outline of fruits to make a fruit collage. We had to make sure we chose the right colour for the fruit, leaves and stalks. We then carefully coloured in a fruit border around our collage, again,  making sure we chose the correct colours very carefully.

  

  

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. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing.

The photographer will be in school on monday 26th September. Please ensure your child is wearing full school uniform.

Going Home With Pattern Bear

This week we have been revising all the sounds we have learned so far. We’ve been singing our Jolly Phonics songs and practising writing on our white boards. We have also learned 2 new sounds! They are ‘e’ and ‘h’.

                     

The action for ‘e’ is to hold our hands as if we are cracking an egg into a pan and say “e,e,e“. The action for ‘h’ is to pretend we have run a very long race and are very tired and put our hand up to our mouth, panting and say “h,h,h,h”.

                   

We have also been revising all the words we have learned so far. Our beebot helps us to remember all our words.

                                    

We have also been working very hard in Mrs Lynch’s room. We have been looking at all the sounds on the wall and practising writing them on the big white board. Mrs Lynch has sounds cubes and she helps us to make words using the sounds we have already learned and some sounds we will be learning soon. It is great fun to find the correct sounds and make new words!

                   

We learned the numbers ‘6’ and ‘7’ this week. We sang the songs 6 fat sausages and 7 little fingers and practised writing the numbers on our white boards. We also revised and practised the numbers 0-5.

  

This week we have been talking and learning about patterns using 2 colours. We all made caterpillars using 2 different coloured circles making sure we were sticking them down in a pattern.

  

Here is our finished wall display, doesn’t it look fantastic?

                                

To carry on with our pattern work, each class has a very special Bear to take home. Every night one of us from each class takes Pattern Bear home and he helps us look for all different sorts of patterns in our own home. He comes with his own camera and we take pictures of all the patterns we find. Below is a picture of the first children from 1A, 1B and 1C to take their bears home for the night. Don’t they look pleased?

  

Mrs Johnstone, our Healthy Eating Assistant, started toothbrushing with us this week. We well be brushing our teeth every day after playtime. To explain the importance of having strong, healthy teeth and to eat healthy play pieces, Mrs Weir read us a story and introduced us to Trigger! Trigger showed us the proper way to clean our teeth.

                      

We have a very large 100 square in our corridor. It is there for us to mark and count our first full 100 days at school. Every day our teachers take us and we have to look and see how many days have been turned over and then we look and say  what we think the next number will be and when our teacher turns it over, we then can see if we chose the correct number! We will be counting all the way to 100 days.

    

We had our first “Open Doors” this week. Every Thursday from 3.00pm – 3.15pm our parents and carers can come into our classrooms and Mrs Lynch’s room and we show them all the things we have been doing during the week. We also have a Library area and we are allowed to take home a book to read and bring it back the next week. Our P7 pupils write down our names and the name of the book we are borrowing and our parent/carer signs their name. It’s just like a proper Library!

  

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 jewellry must be removed for gym.

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.

The photographer will be in school on Monday 26th September. P1 class and individual photographs will be taken.