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Baubles….Bangles…and Beads

December 7, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

We’ve been busy this week and it will only get busier in the run up to Christmas.

We have been working on CVC words this week looking at the middle vowel ‘a’ and ‘e‘. We have been given words where the vowel is missing and have to think of the correct vowel to make the word. We’ve been doing very well with this job.

We also wrote a sentence about our silly hat sponsored walk. We drew a picture and wrote a sentence about our favourite part.

In number we have been playing number games using our dice. We have also been playing Christmas adding games using crackers and Christmas trees.

Our school Christmas Fayre is on Saturday the 8th December and we’ve been making things to sell and also painting a display. In our Assembly Hall all the classes painted a display of their favourite Winter/Christmas story. We chose a Percy the Park Keeper story but painted him wearing a festive Santa hat!

We also made beaded bracelets. This was quite a tricky job as we had to carefully thread the beads onto the elastic making sure we put the beads on in a pattern and also checking that they didn’t fall off the other end before we tied a knot in the elastic!

We are also going to be selling picture frames with our picture in them. We painted our frames using bright colours and decorated them with sequins.

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 Fayre – Saturday, 8th December, 10.00am to 12 noon at Longhaugh Primary School.

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

Gunpowder, Treason and Plot!

November 9, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello there! A short week for us here at Longhaugh Primary school as the school is shut Thursday and Friday to pupils for staff in-service training.

We learned our last sound this week. The sound is ‘ar‘. The action for ‘ar’ is to open your mouth as if the doctor is looking at your throat and say, ‘ar,ar,ar,ar,ar’.

We have learned a total of 39 sounds! Can you believe that? We think we are pretty amazing managing to learn all those sounds already!!

We have also been looking at the alphabet this week. We know that letters have a sound and a name. Now that we have learned all our Jolly Phonic sounds we are learning all the names of their matching capital letters. We have been singing alphabet songs to help us remember.

We were working again this week with Luke. He’s been helping us to use the number tracks and number lines He’s also been helping us to count on 2 more and 3 more.

As it was Bonfire Night on Monday we talked about what we would do/not do to keep ourselves safe if we went to see the bonfire and fireworks displays. We also made our own rockets and firework pictures.

This Sunday is Rememberence Sunday. We won’t be at school that day but we talked about the men and women we will be remembering, why we wear a poppy and what a poppy represents. A few of us in school had family and friends who have served or are serving in the armed forces. We all agreed it was very important to remember all the men and woman who had died serving their country.

Parent Notices

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

The school will be closed to pupils on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th November for staff in-service training.

Halloweeeeeen………Ooooo!!!!!

November 2, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

It’s been a spooky week here in P1! On Wednesday witches, werewolves, vampires and monsters came to school!! We have, however, managed to keep working very hard in spite of all the strange visitors!

We have learned another 4 new sounds this week. Our new sounds are ‘ou‘, ‘oi‘, ‘ue‘ and ‘er‘.

Our favourite action this week is ‘ou‘. We pretend our finger is a needle and touch our other hand and say “ou,ou,ou,ou.”

We have also been learning our new tricky words. We are learning these words before we get our own reading book. We have been putting the words together to make sentences.

In number we have continued to re-cap all our numbers to 10 and to play lots of number matching games. We have also been working with our number lines and finding the missing number and looking at 1 more and 2 more.

In 1A we continued looking at nature this week and planted seeds and bulbs. Our cress seeds have grown really tall already! We have also been talking and learning more about the weather and we have continued to make more weather forecast videos. We check our weather station every morning. We have been discussing that the weather changes with the seasons and that there are 4 seasons in the year. We have been learning a season song to help us remember them.

This week in 1B we have been looking for our addresses on the large map in our classroom. Some of us have even found our house and marked it on the map! We also discussed how we all travel to school. Some of us walk to school, some of us are driven to school in the car and some of us take the bus. We recorded all our findings on a graph.

As we had visited Whitfield Library this week, we decided that the first of the ‘people who help us’ should be the Librarian. We have worked out a lot of questions to ask her when we go on our next visit next week. Here we are drawing our own Librarian.

In P1C we have continued to look at Percy the Park Keeper. We read the book and watched the DVD. We discussed what we liked and what we didn’t like about both the book and the film. We then wrote about our own favourite thingabout Percy.

We have been working in the Autumn area in room 4. We have been looking at the Autumn interest table and have been touching, discovering and talking about the pumpkin, fir cones, acorns, conkers and all the different coloured leaves we can get in Autumn. There are also activities in the area and we have been counting out the nuts for the squirrel, matching the leaves and looking at animals that hibernate.

On Wednesday we had our Halloween party in school. We all came dressed up (even the teachers!) We had to try and eat a donut on a string without using our hands. We had to ‘dook’ for apples, again without using our hands. We had to fish about in monster’s guts to find tokens! Yuck! Then we had to try and find more tokens in monster’s brains! Double Yuck!

We played musical bumps and had a drink of juice and some crisps, cake and sweets. Mrs Sands, our secretary, came to judge our Halloween costumes. She found this very difficult as we all looked magnificent but she managed to choose a first, second and third from each class. Well done to the winners!

Parent Notices

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_longhaughThe school will be closed to pupils on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th November for staff in-service training.

All Shapes and Sizes!

September 21, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Well, we’ve had another very busy week here in P1.

We have learned even more sounds, 24 in total! Wow!

The sounds this week were ‘j’, ‘oa’, ‘ie’ and ‘ee,or’. Our favourite action this week was the action for ‘j’. We had to jiggle our bodies like jelly on a plate.

We have continued to do lots of sounds games and activities this week. We’re also blending our sounds to make, hear and say words.

We looked at shape this week and we were pretending to be detectives in our classrooms hunting for all sorts of shapes. Our teacher also put some different shapes into a bag. We had to wear a blind fold and try and guess the correct shape just by feeling how many sides, or how many corners it had. We also did some shape work and made pictures only using the 2D shapes.

In topic this week we have been very busy. In 1B we were looking at Sleeping Beauty and discussed some of the places in the story. The castle, the tower, the forest, the castle covered in thorns. We then had to do a pen drawing of a place using as much detail as we could. Here are a few of our drawings.

In 1A we finished off our art work for our Peter Pan wall display, it’s looking very nice! We also looked at the different events in our story of Peter Pan. We discussed all the things that happened in the story and we decided our favourite event was when the crocodile ate Captain Hook!

In 1C we looked at the characters in our story, Rapunzel. We read different versions of the story and we discussed what made a good character and what made a bad character. We had to decide who was our favourite character and why.

In gym this week we were working on our ball skills. We practised rolling, throwing and catching the ball, being as contolled as we could. We also worked together in pairs rolling the ball carefully to each other making sure it didn’t escape. That wasn’t as easy as it sounds.

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.

The boys and girls will be making junk models, please give your child empty cereal boxes, egg boxes, yoghurt tubs etc., to bring into school.

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

Part Timers no more….

August 31, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

This is our last week of being in school only in the mornings. From Monday we are here all day and we’re all excited and ready to be full time school boys and girls!!

We continued to learn new sounds this week and we learned ‘e’, ‘h‘, ‘r’ and ‘m’. Our favourite sound action was ‘r’. We had to pretend we were a puppy who was pulling his rag in his mouth and say ‘rrrrrrr’.

We have been practising our sounds in lots of different ways. We have been using the ipad, matching sounds, using our sounds bibs and practising on our whiteboards.

We also learned the numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8. We have been singing lots of number rhymes and songs. We have been making numbers out of playdough and matching digits and pictures that are the same, e.g., 5 dots, 5 lines, the number 5 and a 5p. We’ve been practising writing our numbers on our whiteboards. This can be tricky as some of the numbers aren’t easy to master!

At the end of each week we look in our planners and decide how we have felt our learning has gone. If we felt it has gone well and we found our jobs quite easy we colour in the green traffic light. If we felt things were ok but we found some of the jobs a little bit tricky we colour in the orange traffic light. If we thought our jobs were really quite difficult and we needed lots of help with them we colour in the red traffic light. We all coloured in the traffic lights green or orange as we are all smart cookies and managed all our sounds and number jobs really well.

As we will be in school for a full day on Monday, we had an early school lunch to familiarise ourselves with the dinner hall and what we will have to do when we go for lunch next week. We all had a lovely lunch and a very big thank you to the cook and the dinner ladies who helped us!

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.

Your child has been given a blue homework packet, please ensure your child brings this to school every day.

Primary 1 will be in a full school day, finishing at 3.15pm from Monday 3rd September 2012.

Our Open Afternoon is on Friday 7th September from 2pm. Invitations with the details will follow.

P1c Assembly

May 11, 2012 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

We have been revising all our sounds this week and using those sounds to make CVC words in our workbooks and write short sentences in our thinking books.

We had a re-cap on addition this week. Our teacher hid eggs around the room. She said, “the Giant has one egg, can you find four eggs, how many do you have altogether?” Once we had found the correct amount of eggs we wrote our sum on a piece of paper. We then had to do the same again, but this time look for Jack’s beans! This was a fun way of reminding ourselves of addition.

This week in our topic we discussed our favourite foods. We had to decide whether we liked sausages, pizza, chicken or spaghetti bolognaise best. Once we had all made our decision we recorded our answers on a tick sheet. We then transferred all our answers to record them on a bar graph.

We then thought to ourselves…..what would the Giant like to eat? So we got a giant plate and lots of different colours of paper and we got to work with our scissors and made the giant a meal. Some of us made him pizza, some of us made him sausages and some of us thought he might like noodles. We think he would enjoy all our meals!

P1c had their class assembly this week. All the other pupils and teachers came to watch and we invited all our parents/carers. Our assembly was about all the number work we have been learning since starting school. We talked about counting from 0 to 10 and back again and counting in 10’s from 0 all the way to 100. We also did some addition sums. We talked about telling the time on analogue and digital clocks and we also sang the Days of the Week Song and 10 Green Bottles. Everyone seemed to enjoy it very much and told us what a good job we had done!

Well done P1c!

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.

Jack and the Beanstalk…….continued

May 4, 2012 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

We have done a lot of work on our Jack and the Beanstalk topic this week. Our teachers gave us giant copies of extracts from the story and we had to do a skimming activity. This meant we had to look over the story and find specific sounds and common words. This was a tricky job and we needed to concentrate very hard. We worked with a partner to find the sounds and common words and circled them with coloured pencils.

Something strange happened this week! A giant envelope was delivered to each of the classes. Inside the envelope was a giant footprint. We had to think where it had come from? Who it belonged to? Why was there only one? We knew by looking at it that it was much bigger than our feet so we decided that it must belong to the giant!

We all drew around our own foot and compared the size of our foot to that of the giant’s footprint. We decided that we would have to make another footprint and we discussed how we were going to measure the footprint so we could make our one the same size. We decided we would use cubes.

Now that we had the giant’s feet we thought it would be a splendid idea to make the giant himself! We worked in teams. Some of us made the body. Some of us made the legs. Some of us scrunched up newspaper and stuffed it into tights to make the arms, and some of us put cotton wool into latex gloves to make the hands.

Our teachers helped us to wrap large sheets around the bricks to cover up the legs and body.

We then all got a sheet of paper and drew the giant’s face. We had to decide whether our giant was a sad giant, or an angry giant, a happy giant or a worried giant. Once we had drawn and coloured in our faces, we displayed them and took a vote on which face was our favourite. We then recorded our votes on a bar graph and the one with the most votes was put on our giant.

We also did a bean experiment. We planted beans into soil and also put some beans into glass jars. We know that our beans will need, light, water and warmth to grow. So we decided to experiment and not give some of the beans any water but put them in a sunny spot so they would have light. We gave the other beans water but put them in a dark cupboard so they didn’t get any light. We are wondering if they will grow…..we’ll keep you posted on the results.

Well we have certainly been very busy working away on all our Jack and the Beanstalk activities, I’m sure you will agree!

Notices for parents:

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 on Monday 7th of May.

Mid Term

February 9, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello and welcome everyone! A short week at school this week as we are closed to pupils on Thursday for staff in-service training and also on Friday and Monday for the mid term holiday!

We learned our last sound this week, we have learned 40 sounds in total! Wow! This week’s sound was ‘ar’.

The action for ‘ar’ is to open your mouth as if the doctor is checking your throat and say ‘ar,ar,ar,ar’.

This week in our number work we have continued to practise recognising and writing our numbers to 10, ordering them and finding the number before, after and in between. We have, however, also been learning our number doubles and near doubles.

In our water topic this week we did a “waterproof and not waterproof” experiment. We had an object each and we tested it in the water to see if it was waterproof or not waterproof. We found out that a raincoat was waterproof as the water just ran off but woolly socks, although they would keep us warm, were not waterproof and they soaked up the water. We recorded our findings on a sheet.

We also looked at another sea creature this week. We read a factual book about an octopus. We found out they have 8 legs called tentacles and they squirt ink when they feel threatened. They do this to scare off other creatures that want to attack them. Miss simpson made a playdough octopus and put it into a glass bowl filled with water. She then squirted ink into the water just as an octopus would do if it got scared. The ink transformed the water and the octopus was completely hidden!

We made our own Octopus by tearing and sticking pieces of paper on to a plastic cup, then curling paper strips and gluing them on to make the 8 legs.

We read the Lighthouse Keeper’s Picnic and added this to our storybook chain. We drew a picture about this story and wrote a sentence in our thinking books.

Notices for parents:

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 on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Monday 13th of February for in service training and the mid term holiday.

Our Christmas Shop is Open!

December 9, 2011 Mrs Lynch 2 Comments

Welcome back to our blog! We have been incredibly busy this week and have managed to fit a lot of exciting learning into the last 5 school days.

Even though it is very close to Christmas we still managed to learn more sounds. This week we learned ‘ie’ and ‘ee, or’.

The action for ‘ie’ is to put your hand to your forehead and pretend to salute and say “ie,ie,ie,ie“. The action for ‘ee, or’ is to put your hands on top of your head and make donkey’s ears. Make the ears stand up and say ‘ee’ then make the ears flop and say ‘or’.

We continued with our ladybird maths box this week and we worked on the stories of 7. We put the dots on the ladybird and then wrote the sum on our white boards.

We have been extremely busy this week with our Christmas activities. Our Christmas shop opened and all the classes came down on a rota basis and bought lovely gifts for their family and friends. We even provided a wrapping service! We have made a lot of money for the school through our Christmas shop and we’d like to thank all the parents/carers and children who donated and bought all the wonderful gifts.

We also made snowmen paper chains to decorate our classes.

We have been rehearsing for our nativity, We Three Kings, every day this week and we had our dress rehearsal on Friday which we performed to the whole school. We did very well and everybody thought it was marvellous. We have 2 productions next week for our families.

We were also very lucky and went to visit Santa in his grotto. We listened to a Christmas story and sang lots of Christmas songs. we all got to have a chat with Santa and he gave us a gift. We had a marvellous afternoon!

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Open doors will resume on Thursday 12th January 2012.

Christmas 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 Party – Monday 19th December – Please give your child 50p towards party food.

St Andrew’s Day

December 2, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

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:

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 December – 10.00am – 12 noon.

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