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Christmas is coming!

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We have had an extremely busy week catching up on the things we missed due to the school being closed. We are back working hard but our playground is still very, very snowy!

We learned one more sound this week, the ‘x’ sound. We all had great fun pretending to take an ‘x-ray picture’, the action for this sound.

Santa’s workshop has come to P1 and Santa left us a letter asking us to design lots of toys to help him out at Christmas. He also told us we were all on the ‘nice’ list. Phew!!

In room 6 we’ve been decorating Santa’s tree but we must remember to put the decorations on using a pattern. We’ve also been practicing setting Santa’s Christmas table. It’s tricky to remember where everything goes!

We’ve also been very busy making lots of craft to sell at our Christmas fayre. P1A have been making tree decorations and P1B have been making Christmas stockings.

  

We made angel cards to take home.

 

As the playground and streets are still very snowy and icy, it makes it too difficult for us to walk and visit the community. So we had a very,very special visitor this week. Santa came to Longhaugh Primary School! It was lovely to see him and we all promised we would try and be especially well behaved and he gave us a gift.

  

Even though we have been so busy making all our Christmas craft and rehearsing for our show, ‘The Grumpy Sheep’, every day, we have also been using our Ladybird maths box. This week we have been working hard making 5 and making 6.

Dates for your diary:

Open doors – The last open doors for this term was Wednesday 8th Dec. Open doors will resume on Wednesday 17th January 2011.

P1 Christmas Party – Tuesday 21st December at 1.15pm. Children can go home at lunch time to get changed or send party clothes in a named carrier bag and we will help them get changed.

Christmas Fayre –   Saturday 11th December  –  10.00 am –  12 noon.

Grumpy Sheep production – Wednesday 16th December at 9.30am and Wednesday 16th December at 1.45pm. There will be opportunities next week to buy more tickets.

Working Hard in P1

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Hello and welcome again to P1’s Blog. We have had another very busy week. We have learned a further 2 sounds, ‘w’ and ‘y’. We practise saying the sounds, doing the actions and singing the songs every day. We now know 22 sounds!

 

 We also discovered the ladybird maths box this week and talked about addition. We have become number detectives and use the bingo, lotto and domino games inside the box. We used the ladybird number lines to discuss the number before, the number after and the number in between. Next week we are going to put playdough spots on the ladybirds to help us to add. We have been using the dice in room 6 to help us to count and add 2 numbers together. We try to remember to start with the biggest number first!

    

We’ve also been continuing to work hard on our patterns as these pictures clearly show. We can even write out our numbers 0-10 in a pattern!

  

We read a story this week about St. Andrew and learned that he is the patron saint of Scotland. We hope to celebrate St. Andrew’s day next week by having a party with P2 and P3. We made our very own Saltires and we’re planning to wave them at our party next week. We used blue card and we ripped up small pieces of white tissue paper and glued them to make the St. Andrew’s cross.

  

Our rehearsals for The Grumpy Sheep are going well and we have started to get all the actors and chorus upon the stage. Keep singing the songs and learning those lines!

Dates for your diary:

Gym – Every Monday and Friday – Please ensure children have gym kits in school on these days.

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

St Andrew’s Day Party – Tuesday 30th November

Christmas Fayre – Saturday 4th December 10.00am – 12 noon. Please hand in donations for the cake and candy, priced and wrapped, on Friday 3rd December.

A busy week in P1!

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P1 have had another busy week!  

We have learned 2 more sounds this week, ‘z’ and ‘v’ and we have been practising hard learning the Jolly Phonics songs and actions that go along with our sounds.  

the 'z' sound
the 'v' sound
The action for 'v'. Can you tell we're driving vans?

We have also been searching for sounds and numbers hidden in the sand tray and we have been recording what we find onto a grid. 

look how many sounds and numbers we found!

We have also been very clever and used our knowledge of sounds to make words! How smart are we?  

 

In our number work this week we have been learning to count on 2 more using cubes and we have been writing what we learned in our thinking books. Counting Ted has also been helping us to remember the number after and the number before on the number washing line. 

 

Counting Ted is helping us!

We are still working hard on looking for patterns with Pattern Ted and making our own patterns.  

We have also been learning that in Autumn, food starts to become scarce for the birds and we made our own bird feeders using fir cones, peanut butter and bird seed. Birds won’t go hungry in our gardens.  

We are practising hard with the P2’s and the P3’s for our Christmas production of “The Grumpy Sheep.” I’m sure you’re hearing the songs at home! We had a competition to draw a design for the stage back drop. Keep your fingers crossed it’s someone in P1 who wins!

Important Dates

Gym – Mondays and Fridays

Please ensure gym kit is in school for these days

Open Doors – there will be no open doors this week, Wed. 24th Nov.