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Hip to be Fit!

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Hello and welcome to our blog!

We’ve had a very active week this week and been busy doing all sorts of exercise. P1 at Longhaugh know it’s hip to be fit! We thought, wouldn’t it be a good idea not only to have a day where we all participated in lots of physical activities but we asked our family and friends to sponsor us. So we exercised to keep ourselves fit and healthy and raised funds for our school at the same time! Genius!!

We started to write our stories about the 4th Little Pig. We drew a picture for the beginning and the middle of our stories. We had to think of something that was different to the traditional tale. Some of us thought that the wolf could go on holiday with the pigs. Some of us thought that it could be the wolf’s birthday. We had lots of ideas.

We also participated in a fantastic drama lesson. We had super props to make the Three Little Pigs story come to life!

  

We also finished our paper mache pigs. We put eyes and ears on them and gave them a curly tail. Don’t they look fantastic?

              

We have been looking at money this week and using games on the interactive white board to help us. We have also been playing bingo games and completing sheets using different amounts of coins.

We also did some “active” maths as we were being fit and healthy this week. We were making patterns with tops and cones. We worked in groups and made shapes on the ground. We did circuits of jumps, hops, shuttle runs, throwing and catching a bean bag. We had to count how many times we did this in a minute. In groups we had to run in a clock wise direction. We had to pretend we were coins and join with other “coins” to make a price tag! Four corners were given a number, our teachers set us a question (an adding or subtraction question) and we had to run to the corner that had the correct answer. Who knew maths could be such fun!!

  

We are having a piggy sports day with all the boys and girls from the nursery. We are going to be leading the sports and showing the Nursery boys and girls how grown up and responsible we are in P1, so we have been practising all the races!

On Friday we had our Hip to be Fit day. We participated in all sorts of physical activities during the day. We had our “active” maths lessons and our drama lessons in the first half of the morning. We then did aerobics in the hall with Mrs Quinton.

              

 In the afternoon we had a zumba class with Sarah and then we danced with “Just Dance“. In between all that, we were outside practicing our races and activities for the Piggy Sports! Phew!!

              

As if this week wasn’t funfilled enough, we had a visit from M & M Productions who put on their version of The Little Princess. We all loved it! Even Mrs Jenkins got to go on the stage!

  

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

What makes a good Easter cake?…we’ll give you the recipe!

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Hello and welcome back to our blog!

last week we were writing lists. Lists of ingredients etc. This week we have been writing instructions. We wrote how to make a sandwich. We wrote what we needed to make the sandwich, e.g., bread, butter, ham etc, and put all the steps in the correct order.

We also made Easter cakes using chocolate and rice crispies. We had pictures of all the things we needed to make the cakes and we put them in the correct order. Then we wrote a list of instructions on how to make the cakes.

We had great fun making our Easter cakes, but we really enjoyed eating them!!

We continued to learn about measure this week. We are still using non-standard units so we can get used to measuring properly. We need to remember to always start at the edge and not leave any gaps.

  

This week though we also went outside and built  snowmen and measured how tall our snowmen were!

Even though we haven’t seen much of the signs of spring this week we are continuing to look and we are ever hopeful that it will be getting warmer soon. So, hoping that spring is just around the corner,we planted sunflower seeds. We put soil into a pot and made a little hole in the middle of the soil with our finger. We popped the seed in the hole and covered it with more soil to keep the seed warm and dark. We watered it a little, not too much and put our pots on the window sill. We hope to see little shoots soon!

  

As we said earlier we made Easter cakes. We melted the chocolate and we poured rice crispies into a bowl. We all took a turn of stirring the crispie/chocolatey mixture. We then used a spoon to put some of the mixture into cake cases. Then finally we put two little eggs onto the cakes. They were extremely yummy! 

  

              

We have continued to learn more about the Easter story. Our teachers gave us some pictures and we had think hard about the story of Jesus beginning with him riding on a donkey into Jerusalem and the sequence of events that followed ending with him being nailed to a cross. We worked together and put all the pictures in the correct order.

  

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.

The school will be closed on Friday 29th march (Good Friday) and for the following 2 weeks. It will re-open on Monday 15th April.

How Long is a Piece of String? P1 Will Measure it!

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Hello and welcome back to our blog! I hope it’s more like Spring where you are, it’s still very cold here and we had snow again last weekend!

We have continued to revise all our sounds and tricky words and have been practising writing CVC words and simple sentences. This week we have also been writing lists. We wrote all the things on Mr Bluman’s shopping list. We wrote all the things in Miss Bonnar’s suitcase. We also wrote a list of all the ingredients needed to make pancakes. Best of all, we all got to make the pancakes and then eat them! Yum!

  

  

We looked at measure this week and used the words longer and shorter. We measured with non standard units, e.g., cubes, paper clips, hands, feet and string. We also estimated the length of objects before we actually measured them. We know that estimating is guessing. We also learned that to measure accurately we had to start at the top or at the edge and not leave any gaps.

  

In topic this week we were talking about Spring. We learned what the signs of Spring are and we discussed what happens in Spring e.g., buds and flowers start to appear after the cold of  Winter and some animals are born – lambs and chicks.  Although it is still very cold here, when we walk to our local library on a Wednesday we can see the daffodils and crocuses starting to show through the grass. Every week we’re going to look to see if there are any flowers yet.

We made daffodils in our craft time. We drew around the petal template and cut them out. We then cut an egg box. This was quite tricky and we needed  all our strength to get the scissors through the cardboard. We then snipped the egg box and painted it yellow to make it look like the trumpet part of the daffodil.

              

As it will be Easter in a couple of weeks, we also started to learn about the Easter story. We know that Easter is a very important time for Christians. We learned that Jesus was betrayed and sentenced to death on the cross. We all found this very sad but in the next few weeks we will be learning that this wasn’t the end and Jesus rose again! This made us feel a lot better.

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.

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.

Mid term Break

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This is a very short week for us at Longhaugh Primary as it’s our mid term break. We have, however, managed to squeeze lots of things into our 3 days.

We have been revising our sounds and tricky words this week and we’ve also been doing some reading assessments. We’ve been checking how many sounds we know and how many words we can sound out and write. We’ve been playing matching word and picture games and finding a picture and writing the word. We’ve also been listening to sounds and words and writing them down.

  

We have continued to work on money this week. We looked at the prices in our shop and we had to find the right coins to pay for the item. We’ve also been playing money matching pairs and money games on our interactive white board.

  

We have been learning a little about the Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the snake and begins on February 10th.

At this time of year chinese families get together to celebrate. The lantern festival is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month. We made our own lanterns to celebrate chinese new year.

              

              

Part of the lantern festival is the dragon dance. Large, painted dragons are held aloft by dancers who dance as they guide the giant dragon through the streets. We made our own dragons.

  

In our topic we looked at old toys and new toys and we also looked at objects of varying sizes and weights and we pulled them and pushed them. We had to investigate and predict how far an object would travel if we gave it a gentle push or if we gave it a hard push. We played some of these games on the interactive white board too.

              

We also had our Burn’s poetry competition. It was very hard indeed for our teachers to pick winners so much so in fact that Miss Donaldson in P1A gave all her class winner certificates. In P1B, Declan Petrie received a certificate. Well done Declan! In P1C, Hollie Glen and Dylan MacGregor won certificates. Well done Hollie and Dylan!

                             

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.

The school will be closed to pupils on Thursday 7th February for staff in-service training and closed to pupils and staff on Friday the 8th and Monday 11th February for the mid tem holiday.

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.

He’s making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty or nice…….

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Hello and welcome back to Longhaugh Primary 1’s blog!

Only 10 more sleeps until Chrismas Day!

We continued to look at the medial vowel this week. This week it was the turn of the vowels ‘e’, ‘i’, and ‘o’.

In number we were doing some symmetry work, Christmas themed, of course! Have a look at some of our symmetrical trees below.

  

Our P1 Christmas party is on Monday the 17th of December. No party is complete without a party hat. We made ours this week cutting out our own shape from the paper and decorating it with lots of jewels, feathers, gold paper etc. We think we’ll be very festive.

  

We also made place mats for our party. We coloured them in using our own choice of colours and our own design.

  

On Friday we had a very exciting Glow meet with Santa! Yes! Can you believe it? Santa! He visited Stonehouse Primary School in South Lanarkshire and lots of primary schools all over the country watched and listened to his visit. The boys and girls asked him some very interesting questions. We wondered if he already knew if we were on the naughty or nice list……

  

We also had a craft afternoon. Our parent/carers and adults that live with us came into school and we worked together with them on our craft activities. It was a great success!

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.

Christmas Party – Monday 17th December. Children can go home at lunch time and come back to school in the afternoon all dressed for their party, or give your child a bag with their party clothes in and we’ll help them change at lunch time.

Longhaugh Primary School outdoor Christmas Carol Concert will be held at 5.00pm on the steps of the school. Hot soup will be served. All welcome. 

Please hand in sponsored walk money a.s.a.p.

The P1’s now have a twitter account. Please follow our page. To search for our page…..search @p1_longhaugh

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.