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Fun in the Sun in Stanley!

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Hello and welcome to our penultimate blog of this school year. Where has the time gone?

We have been very busy this week. We thought it would be a good idea to put up a large wall display and decorate the outside area to welcome the new P1’s starting in August. We have been painting scenery, trees, flowers, the Three Little Pigs, the wolf. It’s looking rather good!

  

              

         

We’ve also been working on and revising patterns. We’ve been drawing patterns, making patterns with cubes, beads and pegs. We were also using active expressions.

  

              

Our most exciting thing though was our school trip! We went to Active Kids in Stanley. The P7’s came with us as part of their activity week. We had an absolute ball. We went on the trampolines,  the helter skelter, the flying fox, the fort, the crazy golf and the jelly belly. They also have animal paddocks and we saw all sorts of animals.

  

  

              

  

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. Friday the 21st of June will be the last open doors.

School term ends Friday 28th june at 12 noon. School re-starts Tuesday 13th August.


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.

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.

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Hello and a very warm welcome to our blog!

We have been revising all our sounds this week, singing the songs, doing the actions and reading the flash cards. We have learned another 2 sounds, they are ‘d’ and ‘g’.

     

The action for ‘d’ is to move our hands up and down as if we are playing a drum and say “d d d d d d.” The action for ‘g’ is to move our hand in a swirling action like water gurgling down the drain and say “g g g g g.” Here we are doing the actions for the sounds and also looking at the water ‘gurgling’ down the the drain!

     

We have looked at our Pattern Bear books this week, admiring all the pictures  of the patterns that the boys and girls have taken. We have also been making lots of patterns using cubes, beads and pegs.

   

We have been revising shape. We read a story all about shape and we made a rocket using squares, rectangles and triangles. We then had to think of something we wanted to make and make our own picture only using squares, rectangles, triangles and circles. Here are some of the pictures we made below, I’m sure you’ll agree we made a very good job! It was tricky cutting all the shapes out!

  

  

We learned number 10 this week! We read the number 10 story, sang 10 green bottles, put number 10 on our teddy bear washing line and practised writing number 10 and all our numbers on our white boards.

  

As part of our topic we have been talking and learning about all the people who help us at Longhaugh Primary School. Mrs Lynch took a group of children around the school to interview some members of staff. We had to think up some questions and we recorded our interviews on a microphone and a flip cam. We were very professional!

  

We then had to choose a member of staff from our school and draw them in our Thinking Books.

  

Our P7 boys and girls are holding a laughathon on our school playing fields on Saturday1st October to raise funds for our school. They will be running around the playing fields 15 times. If this is not difficult enough they will be running in fancy dress!! Please come along from 10.00 am to 12 noon and support our primary 7’s. Refreshments will be available.

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. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing.

Two children from each class have been chosen to be their class gardeners and help in our school garden. Please ensure your child brings in old clothes to school to wear whilst gardening.

P1A – Daniel Owler and Annalise Edwards

P1B – Brandon Ringsell and Courtney Keil

P1C – Robbie Gibb and Megan Wilson

End of term – 7th October 2011

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.