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Mid Term

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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:

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

Our new friends, Luke and Ruby Bear

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Hello and welcome and again to our blog. Primary 1 have learned 2 more sounds. This week’s new sounds are ‘oi‘ and ‘ue‘.

    

The action for for the ‘oi’ sound is to put yours hands on either side of your mouth and shout ‘OI’. The action for the ‘ue‘ sound is to point your finger towards someone and say ‘UE’.

    

We met Ruby Bear this week. We found out that she is a special bear and we read about all the things that make her different. We drew a picture of Ruby and wrote a sentence about her.                                               

Ruby is an interesting bear

This week we also met Luke and the lily pads. We put the numbers in order and Luke helped us to jump up the number line, find the number before, the number after and the number inbetween. We then recorded our numbers in our thinking books!

    

Later on in the week we also met Mummy Frog. Mummy Frog is very clever and helps us to count in 2’s. We talked about even numbers and recorded our answers in our thinking books.

  

We also used our frog flip flop books. We worked in pairs and these very clever books help us with our number stories to 10.

    

We are very lucky and some young footballers from Dundee United are coming to help us over the next few weeks learn football skills etc. This week they concentrated on fitness and we played games and were very energetic running around in our Assembly hall!

     

We continued with our Under the Sea project and learned more about an octopus. Miss Simpson made a playdough octopus and put it in a large glass bowl filled with water. We learned that if a preditor such as a shark came near to the octopus it would get frightened. To protect itself the octopus would squirt black ink so the shark couldn’t see it, then it would escape into the ocean.  To let us see what a real octopus would do in the sea, Miss Simpson put black ink into the bowl so the octopus would be hidden. We recorded what we learned in our thinking books.

  

We also made origami whales for our ‘under the sea’ wall. This was a very tricky job and we had to concentrate hard. We had to fold the paper carefully and press very firmly to make sure the whale shape was perfect. we then finger painted spots onto our whales.

          

On Thursday afternoon we had the pleasure of the ‘play on Wheels’ bus. We had fantastic fun playing with all sorts of different outdoor toys and using our imaginations to make simple objects transform into exciting things to play with. I think you’ll agree the photographs show what a wonderful afternoon we had!

     

Notices for parents:

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

Open Doors – Every Wednesday – 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – words and sounds every night.

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.