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I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down….

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We have been revising our sounds every day and we have also been practising writing CVC and CCVC words. Some of us are writing short sentences on our own and some of us are extending our writing and writing longer sentences. We have also been looking at capital letters and full stops. Very important when we write our sentences!

                        

We have continued to work on addition this week. Some of us who are confident in adding to 10 have been working with numbers to 20. This is much more tricky!

              

This week we all got a letter from the 3 Little Pigs. P1a received a letter from the third Little Pig. P1b received a letter from the first Little Pig and P1c got a letter from the second little pig. As a result of receiving the letters we are building a straw house, a brick house and a stick house in our class rooms.  

  

  

          

There is also the 3 Little Pigs building site in Mrs Lynch’s room. We have been building straw houses, stick houses and brick houses in here. The story of the Three Little Pigs has been hidden in the sand tray and we have had to find all the pieces of the story and put them in the correct order.

  

              

We have been reading different stories and versions of the traditional tale The Three Little Pigs and we have also been talking about a story having a beginning, a middle and an end. We looked at a video clip of the story and also read a rhyming book of the story and we compared the endings.  We then drew a picture of our favourite ending and wrote about our picture.

  

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.

The school will be closed for the May Day holiday on Monday 6th May.

Spring is in the air….every where I look around….

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Hello everyone and welcome back after our 2 week break!

We have come back to school ready to learn and work hard.

We have been revising and practising our sounds and CVC words, just to make sure we hadn’t forgotten anything during our 2 week Easter holiday.

We have also been writing short sentences, some of us have been trying to extend our writing by writing longer sentences.

  

We have had a quick revision of our numbers to 10 too. We have continued to work with addition to 10 but we have also been looking at odd and even numbers. Even Steven and Odd Bod. We have also been learning a song to help us remember.

“I’m a number cruncher and my name is Bod. I like numbers if they’re odd .

All odd numbers taste just fine, and they end in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.”

“I’m a number cruncher and my name is Steven. I like numbers if they’re even.

All even numbers taste just great, and they end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8.”                                                          

              

We had been looking at life cycles before the holidays and we continued this week by looking at the life cycle of a butterfly. We also painted our own butterfly.

  

To finish our Spring topic and now that the weather has improved a little bit, we went on our Spring walk to the local community allotments. We had a check list with us that we had to tick when we saw all the different signs of Spring, e.g., daffodils, buds, blossom, birds, green leaves, seedlings, nests etc.

There were also bee hives at the allotments and the gentleman there told us that it was dangerous to go looking in the hives. Only the bee keeper, wearing protective clothing and who also knows how to handle the bees can go to the hives to take the honey. It was a very interesting visit and we thank all those invloved at the allotments for allowing us to visit.

  

  

Our teachers have decided to read us a novel. They will be reading this novel to us a little every day and we will have discussion about the characters and we will try to predict what might happen in the stories. It makes us feel quite grown up to be reading a novel! We chose Roald Dahl as our author and P1A chose George’s Marvellous Medicine. P1B chose The BFG. P1C did choose The Witches but one or two of us found it a little frightening so we’re going to read George, the Pelly and Me instead!

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.

P6 are holding a table top sale at the school on Saturday 20th April from 10.00am to 12noon. As well as the tables there will be refreshments, face painting, raffle etc. Please come along and support P6 and Longhaugh Primary School.

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.