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What’s the temperature today? P1 will tell you!

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Hello there and welcome back to our blog!

We continue to revise our sounds every day, just so we don’t forget any of them. We have been going over our tricky words and using our tricky words to make sentences. We practised writing our sounds and our sentences  making sure we were using our best handwriting.

              

We were also working on consonant blends. These can be quite tricky and we have been playing some matching games to help us.

                              

We have been looking at the number stories of 4, 5, 6 and 7 this week. We have also been working on our adding sums using our adding circles. We then made our own sums and wrote them out on our white boards. We have also been working in our number books drawing and writing 1 more and 2 more.

              

In 1A we have continued to monitor and record the temperature every day in our weather station. Some mornings it has been quite chilly!

                             

This week we made trees for our Autumn board and our Winter board. We drew around our hands and cut them out. We used these to make the leaves on our trees. We also cut strips of brown paper and crepe paper to make all different sizes of branches and twigs to add to our trees. We had gathered leaves from our playground and we painted them different autumnal colours. We then carefully pressed them onto paper to make leaf prints. When they are dry, we are going to cut them out and add them onto our trees.

  

  

In 1B we have been looking at the seasons. As we are going out for our Autumn walk on Thursday we decided to discuss the different seasons. What makes them different? In what way does the weather change? What do we wear when the weather is warm, when it is cold and when it is rainy etc.? We discussed what months of the year are in Spring, what months of the year are in Summer, what months of the year are in Autumn and what months of the year are in Winter.

We painted a seasons display and we are going to finish painting children on our back drop all wearing the appropriate clothes for the time of year.

  

In 1C we read our Percy book again and then watched the film, Percy the Park Keeper. We talked about what we liked and what we didn’t like about the book and the film and which of the two we preferred. We used active expressions to vote on our favourite.

  

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.

Thursday 29th November – sponsored walk changed to Thursday. Please bring in your silly hat to school by Tuesday 27th November.

Friday 30th November – Come to school dressed as a character from a book.

You’ve Got Mail!

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Hello there!

We have recapped all our sounds this week and gone over all our tricky words. We’ve also been playing lots of sounds games, word matching games, alphabet dominoes etc.

We have also started to write simple “I can” sentences. We have been writing, “I can hop”, “I can skip”, “I can jump.” We can sound out all the words but we also have to remember to start with a capital letter, finish with a full stop and use finger spaces between our words. A lot to remember!

                        

Some of us got our very own reading book this week! We used our marker under every line and we have to remember to use our pointing finger so we can keep track of the words we’re reading. It’s very exciting!

We started to do adding sums this week. We looked at the + and = signs and talked about the words ‘add’, ‘plus’, ‘makes’, ‘all together’. We wrote some sums on our whiteboards and we looked at the number stories of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Our teachers have put the number stories onto kites and they are pinned up in our classrooms for us to look at and to help us remember.

In topic this week 1A have been learning how to use the school flipcam. We have been making our own weather videos and even though we say so ourselves, we’ve become quite professional! We have continued to check our weather station every morning and have started to take temperature readings and record them in a table. We have noticed that it is getting colder!

We have also been talking about friendship and what makes a good friend. We decided that we would have a ‘caring person’ badge in our class. This means that each person that wears the badge is responsible for looking out for the others in the class.

We have also been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali and we made our own Rangoli patterns.

In 1B we were talking about traffic and the different sorts of vehicles we might see on the road, so we decided to go out to our school railings and take our own traffic survey. We worked in pairs and used tally marks to note down how many cars, vans, lorries, bikes, police cars, tractors, motor bikes and pedestrians we saw. We totalled all our figures and made a table then transferred this information onto a bar graph.

  

We also got a surprise parcel through the post! In the parcel were lots of dressing up things for us to play with in our Post Office area. We’ve been wearing all the clothes pretending to be post men and women and we’ve been delivering mail in our new post bag!

  

In 1C we’ve been looking at all the different characters in the Percy stories. We have read lots and lots of different stories  and this has given us good ideas of all the characters in the stories. We wrote down our ideas and thoughts about the characters on a flipchart. We then had to decide which of the animal characters we are going to investigate as a class!

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.

Friday 23rd November – non-uniform day, please bring in toiletries.

Pumpkins and Skeletons…..Halloween is almost here!

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Hi there and welcome to our blog! We hope everyone who was off for the “tattie” holidays had a great time. We have come back to school all refreshed ready to start our new term.

We have re-capped all our sounds this week but we have also learned 4 new sounds. They are ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘th’ and ‘qu’. Our favourite action is for ‘th’ as we have to stick our tongue out and pretend to be a cheeky clown!

              

              

We also got our word packs this week. They go home with us every night and we learn them every day and very soon we will be getting our own book. We are very excited about that!

We have been re-capping all our numbers to 10 this week. We have been working with our number washing lines and playing matching games, number skittles and interactive white board games.

We have also been counting out leaves and matching the correct amount to the correct number on our hopscotch game.

  

  

We also met Luke this week. Luke is a frog and brings number lily pads with him and he counts in ones. We practised counting forwards up to 10 and then backwards. We also got number lines and we used our pointing finger to help ‘jump’ up the number line.

                   

We have started new topics this week.

P1A’s new topic is called ‘Our Environment’. We have been looking at nature and our natural environment. We have been gathering leaves and have started to look at plants and trees. We have a weather station in our classroom and we have been learning all about the seasons.

P1B’s new topic is ‘The World Around Us’. We read the story of the Jolly Postman and we discussed letters, addresses, what an address is for and where we would see an address. We are going to be finding out our own addresses and we drew our own house and who we live with. In our classroom there is a very large map of Fintry, our local area. Over the next few weeks we are going to find and mark our own homes on the map.

P1C’s topic is ‘Percy The park Keeper’. Our teacher introduced us to Percy and the Percy stories and we found out that Percy had a hut. We thought about what we would want in our own hut and we turned our role-play area in our classroom into Percy’s hut. We then thought about what our own dream hut would look like and we drew our designs.

As it is Halloween next week we have been making some Halloween crafts to decorate our classrooms ready for our Halloween party. We have been making some scary skeletons and some spooky pumpkins!!!

  

We had a visitor to our classes on Friday. Yvonne from Asda came to school and gave us a lesson all about weighing pumpkins. We had to look and see which one was the biggest pumpkin and which one we thought was the heaviest pumpkin.

              

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.

The boys and girls will be painting in P1, please provide your child with a painting apron. An old shirt is perfectly acceptable.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.

We will be having a Halloween party on Wednesday aftermoon 31st October. Children can wear their fancy dress costume all day, or bring it in a bag and staff will help them change after lunchtime or they can go home for lunch and come dressed in their costume in the afternoon. Please give your child £1.00 to help towards the party food.

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

Please return the permission slips for our twitter account.

How Time Flies When You’re Having Fun!

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Well, this is our last week before we come off for the ‘tattie holidays’. It’s hard to believe we’ve been at school for 8 weeks. We’re counting the days for our 100 days of school party, so we know exactly how many days we’ve been at school…….. 39 days!

We learned the sounds ‘oo’, ‘y’ and ‘x’ this week. Our favourite action was the action for the sound ‘x’. We pointed with our pointing and middle fingers on both hands pretending they were x-ray guns saying, “xxxxxx.”

  

  

In maths this week we have been re-capping all the things we have been looking at this term, numbers to 10, pattern, shape and comparing size. Although we are usually quite brilliant we thought it best not to start anything brand new as we may forget it over our 2 week holiday. So, we have been playing number bingo, matching games, rolling the dice and singing number songs and rhymes. Making patterns using cubes, bead cards and bead necklaces. Cutting out and sticking a shape picture of a dog and finding and describing shapes in our shape bag and we went outside into our playground to explore ‘big’ and ‘small’.

  

              

In topic this week we were all thinking what would happen next in our fairy tale or what would happen to a character from the fairy tale.

In 1A we wondered what would happen when Peter Pan went back to Neverland. We decided that he would tease the crocodile and play with Tinkerbell! We also made characters from the story using collage for our Neverland board.

  

In 1B we all wondered what might have happened to the Bad Fairy. It doesn’t tell us at the end of Sleeping Beauty so we all thought of our own ideas. We came up with a great many ideas and we drew our idea in picture form  and wrote some words to match our picture.

              

In 1C we also had to think what would happen after the traditional fairy tale ended. We had to predict what we thought might have happened to the Prince and Rapunzel. We are a romantic bunch in P1C and we all thought they would live happily ever after and continue to live in the kingdom. We drew pictures of this idea.

  

We hope everyone has a restful break. We are off school for 2 weeks and we start back on Monday 22nd October. We will see you then when we are all bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to start working hard and learning lots of new things!

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.

The boys and girls will be painting in P1, please provide your child with a painting apron. An old shirt is perfectly acceptable.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.

Friday 5th October at 3.15pm is the last day of school before the October holidays. School will be closed for 2 weeks. School will re-start Monday 22nd October at 9.00am.

Who is the tallest? Who is the smallest? P1 know the answer!

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Hello everyone, welcome back to Longhaugh Primary 1’s Blog!

We have learned another 4 sounds this week. They are ‘z’, ‘w’, ‘ng’ and ‘v’.

              

                  

Our favourite action was ‘ng’. We had to pretend we were a weight lifter lifting a dumb bell and say, “ng,ng,ng.”

We have been using lots of different materials this week to make our sounds. Dylan even made ‘ng’ from our construction blocks. Well done Dylan! We’ve also been using our sounds to make words.

  

We also used shaving foam to practise writing the sound ‘z’ and ‘z’ words.

              

We also enjoy learning together and working in pairs and in teams. Here we worked together to build a wall of words.    

                        

This week in maths we were comparing size and looking at the language we need to use when we talk about size; biggest, smallest, taller, smaller, fat, thin, etc. We also did activities that made us think about the language we use. We saw who could throw the furthest, who could get the most beanbags into a hoop. We put our classmates in order by height. We cut out pictures and put them in the correct order starting with the tallest and ending with the smallest.

              

                  

In P1A this week we were junk modelling making pirate ships. We had to think what a pirate ship would need and see if we could find the correct shaped box, tube, carton etc., to make it. We think Captain Hook and Peter Pan would be rather pleased with our efforts.

              

In P1C we were also junk modelling but this time we were making Rapunzel’s castle. This time we had to think what a castle looked like. Would it need towers? Would it need turrets? Another very good job done! We are becoming junk modelling Kings and Queens!!

              

In 1B this week we made crowns for  Sleeping Beauty’s wedding. We designed our own crowns using jewels, sequins and feathers. We think we will look very regal at the wedding.

              

We also looked at an extract from the story and we worked in pairs to look for a certain sound in the text. When we found that sound we coloured it in with a pencil. We all did a splendid job!

              

In gym this week we went outside and used hoola hoops. We had to use our hoops in lots of different ways. We rolled them, we skipped with them, we jumped over them and we threw them. We also had to use different parts of our body to swing the hoop. This certainly was much trickier than it sounds!!

  

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.

The boys and girls will be painting in P1, please provide your child with a painting apron. An old shirt is perfectly acceptable.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.

Friday 5th October is the last day of school before the October holidays. School will be closed for 2 weeks. School will re-start Monday 22nd October.

 

Patterns All Around

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Hi there and welcome back to our blog!

It’s all go here in P1 at Longhaugh Primary School and we’re constantly learning and discovering new things.

We learned another 4 sounds this week, they were ‘l’, ‘f’, ‘b’ and ‘ai’. Our favourite Jolly Phonics action was ‘l’ where we pretend we are licking a lolly…..yum!

               

               

We have been continuing with lots of sounds games and activities.

  

We’ve been re-capping our numbers to 10 this week and we will continue to do that but we also looked at pattern. We walked around our class rooms looking to spot different patterns. We sorted out patterns on the interactive white board and we copied patterns using beads and cubes. We even made some patterns of our own. We’re on the lookout for all sorts of patterns, I wonder how many we’ll be able to find?

              

  

In our topic work this week we were looking at the characters in our stories. We looked at what makes a good character and what makes a bad character. Our teacher gave us a character and we listened to the story and we had to shout out a phrase when we heard our characters name.

We have also been thinking about the role play areas in our class rooms and what we would like to see there and what we would need to make it. P1a have been making Captain Hook’s pirate ship and thinking about all the things a pirate ship needs. P1B and P1c have made a castle in their class rooms and had to think what a castle looked like and what a castle needs to make it look like a castle. We had to do a lot of thinking!! This was definately an ‘extra hard thinking’ week!!

Notices for parents:

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday. 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.

At School All Day….and We Love It!!

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Well, we have had our first full week in school and we’ve had a fantastic time! Working very hard and learning lots of new things.

We learned another 4 sounds this week. They were ‘d’, ‘g’, ‘o’ and ‘u’. Our favourite action this week was ‘d’. We had to pretend we were playing a drum and say “ddddddd.”

We have been playing lots of sounds games and trying to put our sounds together so we can hear, say and write some simple CVC words.

We completed all our numbers to 10 this week and we have been doing lots of number activities. We have been playing number games on the interactive white board, using counters to count out numbers and putting the numbers in order from 0 to 10.

We have also been singing ‘10 Green Bottles’ and taking a bottle away when it…’accidentally fell!’  We’re getting better and better at counting!

We also drew a pencil drawing of ourselves wearing our school uniform. These have gone onto our corridor wall along side our portrait paintings. The only part of our pencil drawing we coloured in was our tie and we had to make sure we only used the school colours and we used a pattern. We will be talking more about pattern next week, but for our first attempt we tried very hard.

In topic work this week we all chose which of the fairy tales/traditional tales was our favourite. 1A chose Peter Pan. 1B chose Sleeping Beauty and 1C chose Rapunzel. We had been given a box filled with all sorts of clues and we had to try and think which story they belonged to. We  looked at pictures on the white board and we had to decide if we liked castles, princes, wicked witches etc., in stories and we then used active expressions to vote on our favourite. We are really looking forward to start reading all our stories and learning more about our chosen tales.

In music this week we learned that there are special words to tell musicians when to play softly and when to play loudly. Piano means soft. Pianissimo means very soft. Forte means loud and fortissimo means very loud. We had to clap and stamp our feet either softly or loudly when our teacher said the special words. We really enjoyed it when she called out fortissimo!!

We had our open afternoon on Friday. We invited our family and friends to come into our classrooms and look around to see all the hard work we have been doing. We showed them our learning walls, learning activities and the completed pieces of work in our folios.

Our parents/carers thought we had all been working very hard indeed!

Notices for parents:

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday.  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 Puppet Show

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Well, this is our last full week in Primary one before we break for the summer holidays! Where has the time gone.

We have been busy continuing with subtraction this week, this time we had to find the missing number. That was quite a tricky job!

We planted the beanstalks, that we had been growing, into our school garden this week. Hopefully they will grow over the summer holidays. We’re not sure if we want to find a giant at the top of them though!!

              

We also wrote 2 sentences in our thinking books saying what we had planted in the garden.

We used the giant characters that we had created a few weeks ago and we wrote a story about them. We had given them a name and some of us took them on an adventure. Some of us talked about what they would like to eat, what games they would like to play and places they would like to visit.

                  

We had our inter house sports this week. We joined P2, P2/3 and P3 and we split into our houses. Longhaugh Primary has 4 houses – Mains, Claypotts, Dudhope and Broughty. We then were split into 4 teams within our houses and we had to do an obstacle course. We were all timed and the quickest team will be announced on Monday!

  

We had a very special treat this week. A story teller was visiting Longhaugh Nursery and they invited us to come and  listen to his tales and watch his puppet show. His name was Steven and he told us, with his puppets, the traditional tales The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Jack and the Beanstalk.

  

  

We all enjoyed it very much and it was lovely to visit all the boys and girls in the Nursery.

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.

The school will close on Thursday 28th June at 12 noon for the Summer holidays. It re-opens for the new term on Tuesday 14th August 2012.

P1a Assembly

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Welcome back to Longhaugh P1’s blog!

We have continued to revise all our sounds this week but have also moved on to blends such as; cl, fl, sm, gr, etc. We have been using them to sound out and write longer and more difficult words.

  

We have continued to work on subtraction this week, looking at the number before and less than. We used Jack’s magic beans to help us and we wrote our take away sums on our white boards.

              

              

We built up our own character in our topic work this week. We had to create our own giant. Firstly thinking about his feet and legs, we then drew them on a section of a  piece of paper. Then we had to think about his body and his arms and imagine what they would look like and draw them on another section of the paper. Lastly we had to create our character’s head and face. We had to use our imaginations and draw them on another section of the paper. When we had completed all our character’s body parts, we had made  a whole giant. Our final thing was to give our character a name.

              

This week was the turn of P1a to show family, friends and the whole shcool their assembly. They decided to show everyone all the work they’ve been doing on Jack and the Beanstalk and they even acted out parts of the story. They did a fabulous job and everyone enjoyed it very much indeed!

              

              

Well done P1a!

Finally this week we all went on our P1 trip to Active Kids in Stanley! We had a fantastic time. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t as sunny as it has been over the last few weeks, but we didn’t let that stop us having fun.

We went on the trampolines, the go-carts, the fort, the jelly belly, the flying fox and all sorts of things.

  

  

              

              

We also went round with our teachers and had a look at all the animals that they have on the land. It was an excellent day out and we thoroughly enjoyed it!

  

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 – There will be no open doors on Thursday 7th June 2012.

The school will be closed on Monday the 4th and Tuesday the 5th of June for Victoria Day and Jubilee Day.

P1b Assembly

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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.