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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.

What makes a good Easter cake?…we’ll give you the recipe!

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Hello and welcome back to our blog!

last week we were writing lists. Lists of ingredients etc. This week we have been writing instructions. We wrote how to make a sandwich. We wrote what we needed to make the sandwich, e.g., bread, butter, ham etc, and put all the steps in the correct order.

We also made Easter cakes using chocolate and rice crispies. We had pictures of all the things we needed to make the cakes and we put them in the correct order. Then we wrote a list of instructions on how to make the cakes.

We had great fun making our Easter cakes, but we really enjoyed eating them!!

We continued to learn about measure this week. We are still using non-standard units so we can get used to measuring properly. We need to remember to always start at the edge and not leave any gaps.

  

This week though we also went outside and built  snowmen and measured how tall our snowmen were!

Even though we haven’t seen much of the signs of spring this week we are continuing to look and we are ever hopeful that it will be getting warmer soon. So, hoping that spring is just around the corner,we planted sunflower seeds. We put soil into a pot and made a little hole in the middle of the soil with our finger. We popped the seed in the hole and covered it with more soil to keep the seed warm and dark. We watered it a little, not too much and put our pots on the window sill. We hope to see little shoots soon!

  

As we said earlier we made Easter cakes. We melted the chocolate and we poured rice crispies into a bowl. We all took a turn of stirring the crispie/chocolatey mixture. We then used a spoon to put some of the mixture into cake cases. Then finally we put two little eggs onto the cakes. They were extremely yummy! 

  

              

We have continued to learn more about the Easter story. Our teachers gave us some pictures and we had think hard about the story of Jesus beginning with him riding on a donkey into Jerusalem and the sequence of events that followed ending with him being nailed to a cross. We worked together and put all the pictures in the correct order.

  

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.

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.

Please check your child’s diary for show and tell.

The school will be closed on Friday 29th march (Good Friday) and for the following 2 weeks. It will re-open on Monday 15th April.

How Long is a Piece of String? P1 Will Measure it!

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Hello and welcome back to our blog! I hope it’s more like Spring where you are, it’s still very cold here and we had snow again last weekend!

We have continued to revise all our sounds and tricky words and have been practising writing CVC words and simple sentences. This week we have also been writing lists. We wrote all the things on Mr Bluman’s shopping list. We wrote all the things in Miss Bonnar’s suitcase. We also wrote a list of all the ingredients needed to make pancakes. Best of all, we all got to make the pancakes and then eat them! Yum!

  

  

We looked at measure this week and used the words longer and shorter. We measured with non standard units, e.g., cubes, paper clips, hands, feet and string. We also estimated the length of objects before we actually measured them. We know that estimating is guessing. We also learned that to measure accurately we had to start at the top or at the edge and not leave any gaps.

  

In topic this week we were talking about Spring. We learned what the signs of Spring are and we discussed what happens in Spring e.g., buds and flowers start to appear after the cold of  Winter and some animals are born – lambs and chicks.  Although it is still very cold here, when we walk to our local library on a Wednesday we can see the daffodils and crocuses starting to show through the grass. Every week we’re going to look to see if there are any flowers yet.

We made daffodils in our craft time. We drew around the petal template and cut them out. We then cut an egg box. This was quite tricky and we needed  all our strength to get the scissors through the cardboard. We then snipped the egg box and painted it yellow to make it look like the trumpet part of the daffodil.

              

As it will be Easter in a couple of weeks, we also started to learn about the Easter story. We know that Easter is a very important time for Christians. We learned that Jesus was betrayed and sentenced to death on the cross. We all found this very sad but in the next few weeks we will be learning that this wasn’t the end and Jesus rose again! This made us feel a lot better.

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.

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.

Please check your child’s diary for show and tell.