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P1 Sporting Leaders!

June 7, 2013 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

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

Longhaugh P1…House Builders Extraordinaire

May 3, 2013 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

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.

Teddy Bear Topic

March 9, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

This week we have continued to revise all our sounds and to practise writing cvc words at our sounds stations. Our stations include word mats, sounds board games, ‘find the missing sound‘ games, lace cards, sounds and word games on the interactive white board etc. We all take turns then move around our stations. We really enjoy doing this.

We have been revising time this week. We worked with the time washing line, clock faces, time bingo games, time loop cards and our time bee bot. It’s important for us to keep revising so that we can remember and retain all the things we learn.

We started our new Teddy Bear topic this week. We started by reading the book ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. We also looked at the DVD and talked about all the different places they went to in the book. We painted the ‘thick, oozy mud’, the ‘big, dark forest’ and the ‘swirling, whirling snowstorm’ with Mrs Lynch ready for our wall display.

We looked at a 2012 bear and we also looked at Miss Simpsons Mum’s bear. We talked about their ages and compared how differently they looked. We are all getting a chance to take 2012 bear home with us. We will also take a camera to take pictures of our favourite bear at home and a picture of a favourite bear belonging to our parents or grandparents. We then have to write down the names and ages of the teddy bears so we can add the pictures to our Teddy Bear Timeline.

This week in art we looked at the artist Vincent Van Gogh. In particular we looked at one of his paintings, Starry Night. We looked at the way he swirled the paint to make the night sky. we painted our own starry night pictures using this technique.

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. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

Digital Time

March 2, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

This week in P1 we have continued to revise all our sounds and practised sounding out and writing cvc words. It’s quite tricky to make words but we are trying very hard and some of us are really getting quite good at it.

We have continued to look at time. This week we learned about digital time. We learned that in digital time the ‘o’clock’ has two zeros. We played time bingo games, loop card games and used our time beebot mats to help us with our analogue and digital times.

It is the last week of our water topic and we talked about freezing water. We put water into two trays. One we put outside overnight and the other we put into the freezer. We had to decide if we thought the water in the outside tray would freeze or not. What do you think happened? Do you think the water in both trays froze? We wrote a sentence in our thinking books.

We also put water inside a rubber glove. We discovered the glove was still soft and wobbly when the water was inside it, but when we put the glove into the freezer overnight when it came out the water inside was frozen, the glove and the frozen water had become very hard and solid indeed!

In art we made our own jelly fish. We finger painted them using a pattern of colour. We then made tentacles from coloured cellophane and stuck them onto the jelly fish. Don’t they look good?

The big boys and girls in P6 came down to our classroom and read different story books to us. They will be doing this over the next few weeks and we will then be voting on our favourite book.

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

100 Days At School

February 24, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

Hello, and a warm welcome back to P1’s blog!

We have continued this week to revise all our sounds and have been trying to blend and use our sound knowledge to make words. We have had “sounds” stations in our classrooms. we have been using the flip charts on the interactive white board, sorting sounds, playing sound games and playing “making word” games.

In number this week we have re-capped on time, we have been looking at o’clock again. We discussed the routines of the day and played sequencing card games. We have also discussed the months of the year, looked at which months our birthdays’ fall in and what things happen in certain months, e.g., Christmas, Easter, Halloween etc.

We have been continuing with our water topic and did another experiment. This time we looked at dissolving and not dissolving. We all had a tub each and put sand in some of the tubs, salt in some of the tubs and sugar in the rest. We then put water in them and gave them a good stir. We looked to see which of the substances dissolved in water and which did not. We recorded our findings in our experiment booklets.

In our art time we looked at the artist Georges Seurat. We looked at several of his paintings and we noticed they all looked dotty! We found out that this type of painting, using dots, is called “pointalism.” We painted our own sea scape pictures in the style of Seurat. We used cotton buds to make the dots.

Wow! We have completed 100 full days at school and we had our party on Friday! We read the book “How big is a Million” and we talked about “100” and how much is “100”. We all then went to the hall and one class laid out 100 pennies. Another class laid out 100 bricks and the other class laid out 100 straws and we looked to see which made the longest line. Which do you think?

We then made party hats with 100 on them and we made a centipede cake with 100 legs. We had 100 candles made into the shape of the number 100!

In the afternoon we had our party. We hopped 100 hops to music, we skipped 100 skips to music and we jumped 100 jumps to music. We clapped 100 claps and to cool down we walked 100 steps around the school. After all that exercise we sat down and ate a piece of the centipede cake we made. We are all very pleased we have been at school full time for 100 days!

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

Valentine’s Week

February 17, 2012 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

This week we have been revising all our sounds. We have been practising using flashcards and playing sounds games. We have also been writing all our sounds on our whiteboards.

This week in number we have started to learn about time. We talked about why we tell the time and we looked at all the clocks and watches in the classroom. We looked at the hour hand, the minute hand and o’clock. We then made our own clock. We wrote the numbers on small squares and made the hour hand and the minute hand and put them on our own clocks.

This week we didn’t just make a sandwich for Mr Gringling, we made our very own real sandwich! We talked about healthy fillings and what would be good to put inside a sandwich. We chose our own fillings, made our sandwich and then tasted it. We then recorded our thoughts. We also wrote instructions on how to make a healthy sandwich.

As Valentine’s day was this week, we made cards. We painted our hand and put in on a pink heart. We wrote a special message inside to someone we love.

We also made hanging hearts from pipe cleaners decorated with beads.

Notices for parents:

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.

Clock Hunt

March 4, 2011 Mrs Lynch 3 Comments

Welcome back to P1’s blog!

Our new sounds this week are ‘th‘ and ‘ng‘.

The action for ‘th‘ is to pretend to be the cheeky clown and stick your tongue out. The action for ‘ng‘ is to put your arms in the air as if you were lifting a very heavy dumb bell.

In maths this week we continued to work on addition. We used cubes and divided circles to practice our adding sums.

To continue with our time work, Miss Bonnar took us on a clock hunt through the school. As you can see we found lots of different types of clocks and watches.

Later on this month we’re taking a trip on a train to Montrose Basin. Miss Simpson has set up an area in her class room. It tells us about all the things we will be doing when we arrive at Montrose Basin and all the things we need to bring in to school prior to our trip. We have a check list that we will tick when we bring in to school all the things we need. We also read a story about a train journey and made a graph showing all the boys and girls that had been on a train and the boys and girls who had not.

we continued to practice writing short sentences in our thinking books. This time we wrote “I like” sentences.

Mr Robertson and P6 came down to our class rooms and read us stories. We enjoyed this very much and the P6 boys and girls gave us stickers if we sat nicely and listened well to the stories!

The young footballers from Dundee United came back to our school this week. They were teaching us ball skills.

Notices for parents

Gym – Every Monday and Friday – Please ensure you child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Homework – Words and sounds every night. Please see ‘my school trip list’ in blue reading packet and ensure all items are in school by 24th March.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday – 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Our new friends, Luke and Ruby Bear

February 25, 2011 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

Hello and welcome and again to our blog. Primary 1 have learned 2 more sounds. This week’s new sounds are ‘oi‘ and ‘ue‘.

The action for for the ‘oi’ sound is to put yours hands on either side of your mouth and shout ‘OI’. The action for the ‘ue‘ sound is to point your finger towards someone and say ‘UE’.

We met Ruby Bear this week. We found out that she is a special bear and we read about all the things that make her different. We drew a picture of Ruby and wrote a sentence about her.

This week we also met Luke and the lily pads. We put the numbers in order and Luke helped us to jump up the number line, find the number before, the number after and the number inbetween. We then recorded our numbers in our thinking books!

Later on in the week we also met Mummy Frog. Mummy Frog is very clever and helps us to count in 2’s. We talked about even numbers and recorded our answers in our thinking books.

We also used our frog flip flop books. We worked in pairs and these very clever books help us with our number stories to 10.

We are very lucky and some young footballers from Dundee United are coming to help us over the next few weeks learn football skills etc. This week they concentrated on fitness and we played games and were very energetic running around in our Assembly hall!

We continued with our Under the Sea project and learned more about an octopus. Miss Simpson made a playdough octopus and put it in a large glass bowl filled with water. We learned that if a preditor such as a shark came near to the octopus it would get frightened. To protect itself the octopus would squirt black ink so the shark couldn’t see it, then it would escape into the ocean. To let us see what a real octopus would do in the sea, Miss Simpson put black ink into the bowl so the octopus would be hidden. We recorded what we learned in our thinking books.

We also made origami whales for our ‘under the sea’ wall. This was a very tricky job and we had to concentrate hard. We had to fold the paper carefully and press very firmly to make sure the whale shape was perfect. we then finger painted spots onto our whales.

On Thursday afternoon we had the pleasure of the ‘play on Wheels’ bus. We had fantastic fun playing with all sorts of different outdoor toys and using our imaginations to make simple objects transform into exciting things to play with. I think you’ll agree the photographs show what a wonderful afternoon we had!

Notices for parents:

Gym – Monday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday – 3.00pm – 3.15pm

Homework – words and sounds every night.

Telling the Time

February 18, 2011 Mrs Lynch 1 Comment

This week we have learned out 35th sound! Wow! It was the sound ‘ou‘.

The action for this sound is to use the pointing finger of one hand and pretend it is a needle and jab your other hand and say ‘ou!’

We have been doing a lot of time work this week. We have also started to look at digital time. We used the time washing line and matched analogue clocks to digital clocks. We played time bingo games and used the Bee Bot and time Bee Bot mats.

We made another sea creature to add to our Under the Sea wall. This time we made an octopus. We covered a plastic cup in strips of blue and green paper. Then we curled strips of blue paper to make its’ tenticles. This was very tricky and we had to concentrate hard!

Finally, we glued the tenticles on to the octopus body and drew a face with black pen.

We were very lucky and the school was gifted apple and pear trees from Morrisons for our community garden. On Thursday ‘gardeners‘ from every stage went out and helped Miss Simpson plant the trees. Lets hope they grow strong and we get fruit to eat!

Notices for Parents :

Gym – Every Monday and Friday. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school on these days.

Homework – Words and sounds every night.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday, 3.00pm – 3.15pm.

Robert Burns

January 28, 2011 Mrs Lynch Leave a comment

This week we learned the sounds ‘ee’ and ‘or’. To do the action we put our hands on our head as if they were donkey’s ears for the ‘ee’ sound and fold our fingers down to make shorter ears for the ‘or’ sound.

We learn our sounds and words every night at home. In room 6 we ‘fish‘ for words in the fishing pool when we are pretending to be Polar Explorers in the North Pole. We have to read the fish we catch and if we are especially clever we make short sentences.

Catching fish! Look how many we have caught!

We are continuing to work on our addition this week. We used addition buses to make our own number stories. We also used coat hangers and pegs this week. We moved the pegs form one side of the coat hanger to the other to make different number stories.

Working in pairs to make our number stories.

We also started to learn about time this week. We looked at clocks and talked about the big hand, small hand, numbers and the face. We made ‘o’clock’ by moving the big hand to the 12 and the small hand to the hour. We made our own clocks and practised moving the hands.

Tuesday was Robert Burns birthday. To help celebrate the anniversary of his birth we held a Scottish themed party. We danced the Bluebell Polka and the Shoemaker. We listened to bagpipe music and we recited our scottish poems to Mrs Gallacher. Bradley Williamson and Kara Milne were chosen as the winners. Well done! Miss Simpson read us a scottish counting story, ‘A wee Moose in the Hoose.’ We looked at the scottish display table and saw haggis, neeps and tatties. Best of all we got to taste shortbread!

The winners!

For our ‘Under the Sea’ topic we looked at shells. We looked at their shape, texture and patterns. We made our own shells by drawing our own pattern with wax resist crayons and painting an ink wash on the top.

Notices for parents:

Gym – Monday and Friday. Please ensure your child has full gym kit on these days.

Open Doors – every Wednesday from 3.00pm to 3.15pm

Homework – Words and sounds every night .

To reinforce learning encourage your child to collect shells, pebbles etc., from the beach. Your child could bring these in to show the class.

Please also return any outstanding Library books as soon as possible.