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Telling the Time

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This week we have learned out 35th sound! Wow! It was the sound ‘ou‘.

the 'ou' sound

The action for this sound is to use the pointing finger of one hand and pretend it is a needle and jab your other hand and say ‘ou!’

the action for 'ou'

We have been doing a lot of time work this week. We have also started to look at digital time. We used the time washing line and matched analogue clocks to digital clocks. We played time bingo games and used the Bee Bot and time Bee Bot mats.

We made another sea creature to add to our Under the Sea wall. This time we made an octopus. We covered a plastic cup in strips of blue and green paper. Then we curled strips of blue paper to make its’ tenticles. This was very tricky and we had to concentrate hard!

    

Finally, we glued the tenticles on to the octopus body and drew a face with black pen.

    

We were very lucky and the school was gifted apple and pear trees from Morrisons for our community garden. On Thursday ‘gardeners‘ from every stage went out and helped Miss Simpson plant the trees. Lets hope they grow strong and we get fruit to eat!

Notices for Parents :

Gym – Every Monday and Friday. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school on these days.

Homework – Words and sounds every night.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday, 3.00pm – 3.15pm.

Mid Term

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Welcome to P1’s blog! We are only at school for 3 days this week so we have been very busy fitting everything in that we needed to do.

We learned two more sounds this week. They are ‘sh’ and ‘qu’.

   

When we do the action for ‘sh’ we put our finger to our lips as if we are telling someone to be quiet. For ‘qu’, we put the palms of our hands together and open them up pretending  our hands are a ducks beak.

   

As next Monday is Valentines Day and we won’t be at school, we made our cards ready to give to some one we love. We had silver foil hearts and using the handle end of a paint brush we pressed a design on the foil. We then turned the hearts over and glued them onto red card. We wrote our message  on the inside.

   

On Tuesday we did another water experiment. This time we wanted to see what objects would float and what objects would sink. Mrs Adams and Miss Simpson gathered together 15 items. We were all given 1 item and had to predict whether we thought it would float or sink when we put it in the water.

   

After we discovered whether it floated or sank we put them in the correct pile. We then recorded our findings on a sheet.

   

Notices for parents :

Gym – Every Monday and Friday. Please ensure your child has  full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday from 3.00pm to 3.15pm.

Homework – Words and sounds every night.

We are scientists!

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Hello again and welcome to Longhaugh Primary’s P1 blog! 

We have learned 2 new sounds this week. They are ‘oo’ and ‘ch‘. 

         

To do the action for the ‘oo’ sound we pretend to be the cuckoo in the cuckoo clock and move our head backwards and forwards. For the ‘ch‘ sound we pretend to be a steam engine and our hands move round like the pistons . 

       

We are still continuing with addition this week and we have been using hoops and cubes to see how many ways we can make 7 . 

making 7

To add to our ‘Under the Sea’ wall we made star fish. We scrunched up yellow and orange tissue paper and stuck the pieces on using a pattern. Don’t they look effective? 

       

We have continued to look at water this week and conducted 2 experiments. For the first experiment we worked in groups of 3 and had a tub each. We put sand in one, salt in the second and sugar in the third. 

   

We added water and gave it a big stir. 

 

We noticed the salt and the sugar dissolved but the sand didn’t. We recorded our findings. 

recording what we discovered

We have left the tubs on the window sill of our classrooms and we’re going to see if any thing happens to the salty, sugary and sandy water. 

We also wanted to discover which items were waterproof and which weren’t waterproof. Miss Simpson and Mrs Adams put different things in a bag. We put them into our water tray to see if they absorbed all the water or if the water just ran off the top. We found out that woollen things like hats and socks weren’t waterproof but plastic things like bath toys and hard hats were! 

       

We made a pile of the items that were waterproof and a pile of things that weren’t waterproof and we recorded our findings onto a sheet. 

   

Notices for parents: 

Gym – Every Monday and Friday, please ensure your child has a full gym kit on these days. 

Open Doors – Every Wednesday from 3.00pm to 3.15pm 

Homework – Words and sounds – please go over these with your child every night.

Under the Sea

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Hello and welcome again to P1’s blog!

This week we have learned another 2 sounds – ‘oa’ and ‘ie’.  Our action for ‘oa’ is to put our hand to our mouth as if we have done something wrong and the action for ‘ie’ is to stand to attention and salute!  Since starting school in August we have learned a grand total of 27 sounds!

   

As part of our new topic, ‘Under the Sea’, we have been looking at water. We put some water into ice cube trays and then popped them in the freezer. We left them there for several days then went back to see what had happened to the water, it had turned to ice! Mr Bluman took the ice out of the tray and we all got to hold and feel it. But, do you know the warmth of our hands started to melt the ice and it turned back into water! We recorded our findings in our thinking books.

We also made some fish using shiny circles to make the scales. We chose 2 colours and glued our cirlces on in a pattern, making sure we overlapped them to cover the whole of the fish. We then decorated the tail and fins using crayons. Mrs Lynch added them to our Under the Sea display.

 

We’ve been working hard again this week, practicing our addition. We’ve been using the addition buses and again have recorded what we learned in our thinking books.

   

We joined the P2’s and listened to the author, Lynne Rickards, read her story, Jacob O’Reilly Wants a Pet, live on Glow on the white board. Over 46 schools throughout Scotland joined and listened to her read her book.

 

Notices this week:

Gym – every Monday and Friday – please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – every Wednesday from 3.00pm t0 3.15pm

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year and welcome to P1’s first blog of 2011. We all had a lovely holiday and we’re very excited to be back at school ready to work hard!

We learned a new sound this week. The ‘ai‘ sound. Our action for this sound is to put our hand to our ear and pretend we can’t hear what someone is saying.

 

We have been finger painting and making jelly fish. This is our first art project for our new topic ‘Under the Sea.’ We can’t wait to learn more about the creatures that live in the oceans and seas of the world.

  

We’re still very busy using our Ladybird maths box. This week we have been working on the stories of 3, 4, 6 and 7. We have been making play dough spots to use on the Ladybird sheets to help us with our adding.

  

Notices this week:

Gym days are Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has a full gym kit on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday from 3.00pm to 3.15pm.

Christmas Rush!

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This is the last full week before we come off for the Christmas holidays and we’ve managed to pack lots in.

On Monday we had our dress rehearsal for The Grumpy Sheep in front of the whole school and on Tuesday we did 2 performances for our families. It was a huge success. Mr Munro said it was the best singing he had ever heard! Well done to all the boys and girls in P1, P2 and P3.

     

We’re still busy making lots of Christmas craft. We made calenders and also beautiful table decorations. We painted fir cones green and put glitter and sparkles on them to look like real Christmas trees.

We’ve continued to work hard with our numbers. We used Christmas crackers to count our numbers 0-10 and jumble them up then put them back in the correct order.

  

We have also been problem solving. Winston,  the Longhaugh bear, has been feeling very chilly in this cold weather and we had to think what he would need to keep warm. We have been designing hats, gloves and scarfs remembering to use a pattern and making sure that our hats, gloves and scarfs all matched.

  

We have been revising all the sounds we have learned (23 in total), and sorting them all out on our sounds table. We used our letter vests to make words.

Our Christmas party is next week and we have been practising our dances. Our dances are The Bluebell Polka, The Shoemaker and the Hokey Cokey. Christmas is almost here!

 

Last of all we joined the P2’s in the computer room for a Glow meet and saw Santa visit St Joseph’s Primary School in Milngavie! We sang Jingle Bells and listened to him telling us all the things he does at|Christmas. He said hello to us and all the schools that had joined the Glow meet  in Dundee! We were very excited!

 

Dates for your diary

Christmas party Tuesday 21st December  party money due (50p) and if you can, please take your child home at lunch time to get changed into party clothes. If not, send party clothes into school in a carrier bag.

School finishes at 12 o’clock Wednesday 23rd December.