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P1 Sporting Leaders!

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Hello there and welcome back to Longhaugh Primary 1 in sunny Dundee!

We have been finishing our 4th Little Pig stories. We have finished the middle part of our story and have been working on the ending. We have completed our pictures and added our sentences.

  

In maths this week we have been recapping time and looking at digital time. We have been playing lots of time games and activities on the interactive white board. We even made a ‘human clock’ outside.

                                                 

As we have such a busy week next week we have been practising most afternoons for our piggy sports with the nursery. We are going to be leading the sports and we have been taking turns at being leaders. We have been learning the best way to explain the different activities to the nursery boys and girls and we have been practising explaining them to each other. We have also become very good at encouraging each other when we are participating in our team games!

  

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

Wednesday 12th June – Green school trip to Camperdown Park

Friday 14th June – piggy sports with Longhaugh Nursery

Hip to be Fit!

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Hello and welcome to our blog!

We’ve had a very active week this week and been busy doing all sorts of exercise. P1 at Longhaugh know it’s hip to be fit! We thought, wouldn’t it be a good idea not only to have a day where we all participated in lots of physical activities but we asked our family and friends to sponsor us. So we exercised to keep ourselves fit and healthy and raised funds for our school at the same time! Genius!!

We started to write our stories about the 4th Little Pig. We drew a picture for the beginning and the middle of our stories. We had to think of something that was different to the traditional tale. Some of us thought that the wolf could go on holiday with the pigs. Some of us thought that it could be the wolf’s birthday. We had lots of ideas.

We also participated in a fantastic drama lesson. We had super props to make the Three Little Pigs story come to life!

  

We also finished our paper mache pigs. We put eyes and ears on them and gave them a curly tail. Don’t they look fantastic?

              

We have been looking at money this week and using games on the interactive white board to help us. We have also been playing bingo games and completing sheets using different amounts of coins.

We also did some “active” maths as we were being fit and healthy this week. We were making patterns with tops and cones. We worked in groups and made shapes on the ground. We did circuits of jumps, hops, shuttle runs, throwing and catching a bean bag. We had to count how many times we did this in a minute. In groups we had to run in a clock wise direction. We had to pretend we were coins and join with other “coins” to make a price tag! Four corners were given a number, our teachers set us a question (an adding or subtraction question) and we had to run to the corner that had the correct answer. Who knew maths could be such fun!!

  

We are having a piggy sports day with all the boys and girls from the nursery. We are going to be leading the sports and showing the Nursery boys and girls how grown up and responsible we are in P1, so we have been practising all the races!

On Friday we had our Hip to be Fit day. We participated in all sorts of physical activities during the day. We had our “active” maths lessons and our drama lessons in the first half of the morning. We then did aerobics in the hall with Mrs Quinton.

              

 In the afternoon we had a zumba class with Sarah and then we danced with “Just Dance“. In between all that, we were outside practicing our races and activities for the Piggy Sports! Phew!!

              

As if this week wasn’t funfilled enough, we had a visit from M & M Productions who put on their version of The Little Princess. We all loved it! Even Mrs Jenkins got to go on the stage!

  

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

Longhaugh P1…House Builders Extraordinaire

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Hello there! Welcome to our P1 blog.

We have been working on our literacy skills through our transition topic, The Three Little Pigs. We have been writing about our favourite part of the story and also discussing the three different houses. Which of the three houses would be the strongest? Which one would take the longest to build? We wrote about our straw house. How it looks, what shape it is, what colour it is and what might be inside it.

  

We have started to look at  time this week. We have looked at the clock and talked about hands, the clock face, minute, hour and o’clock. We have learned that when the big hand (the hour hand) is at the 12 it is o’clock. We have to keep our eye on the clock in the classroom and each time the hand of the clock reaches the 12, the first boy or girl to say the correct time gets a sticker! We made our own clocks making sure we put all the numbers on in the correct order and we also put on an hour hand and a minute hand.

                

We used our drama lesson this week to fuel our imagination about our topic The Three Little Pigs. This helps us in our imaginative writing. We all had to pretend we were The First Little Pig. We had to gather straw and build our house. We then had to tell the others all about our house. How tall it was, how many windows and doors it had, what it was like inside. We then worked in pairs and told our partner all about the straw house we had built. At the end of the lesson, we then had to swap character and become the Big, Bad Wolf and we had to huff and puff and blow all the straw houses down!

  

We have also continued to build the three different houses for our classrooms. We were painting a brick pattern on to paper to make the brick house role play area.

              

We have also been building houses using straws, sticks and bricks and then finding out which of the materials used made the strongest house.

              

         

              

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.

 

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

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Hello there and welcome to our blog!

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.