waterproof | Longhaugh Primary 1

Hello and welcome everyone! A short week at school this week as we are closed to pupils on Thursday for staff in-service training and also on Friday and Monday for the mid term holiday!

We learned our last sound this week, we have learned 40 sounds in total! Wow! This week’s sound was ‘ar’.

The action for ‘ar’ is to open your mouth as if the doctor is checking your throat and say ‘ar,ar,ar,ar’.

This week in our number work we have continued to practise recognising and writing our numbers to 10, ordering them and finding the number before, after and in between. We have, however, also been learning our number doubles and near doubles.

In our water topic this week we did a “waterproof and not waterproof” experiment. We had an object each and we tested it in the water to see if it was waterproof or not waterproof. We found out that a raincoat was waterproof as the water just ran off but woolly socks, although they would keep us warm, were not waterproof and they soaked up the water. We recorded our findings on a sheet.

We also looked at another sea creature this week. We read a factual book about an octopus. We found out they have 8 legs called tentacles and they squirt ink when they feel threatened. They do this to scare off other creatures that want to attack them. Miss simpson made a playdough octopus and put it into a glass bowl filled with water. She then squirted ink into the water just as an octopus would do if it got scared. The ink transformed the water and the octopus was completely hidden!

We made our own Octopus by tearing and sticking pieces of paper on to a plastic cup, then curling paper strips and gluing them on to make the 8 legs.

We read the Lighthouse Keeper’s Picnic and added this to our storybook chain. We drew a picture about this story and wrote a sentence in our thinking books.

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.

The school will be closed on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Monday 13th of February for in service training and the mid term holiday.

Hello again and welcome to Longhaugh Primary’s P1 blog!

We have learned 2 new sounds this week. They are ‘oo’ and ‘ch‘.

To do the action for the ‘oo’ sound we pretend to be the cuckoo in the cuckoo clock and move our head backwards and forwards. For the ‘ch‘ sound we pretend to be a steam engine and our hands move round like the pistons .

We are still continuing with addition this week and we have been using hoops and cubes to see how many ways we can make 7 .

To add to our ‘Under the Sea’ wall we made star fish. We scrunched up yellow and orange tissue paper and stuck the pieces on using a pattern. Don’t they look effective?

We have continued to look at water this week and conducted 2 experiments. For the first experiment we worked in groups of 3 and had a tub each. We put sand in one, salt in the second and sugar in the third.

We added water and gave it a big stir.

We noticed the salt and the sugar dissolved but the sand didn’t. We recorded our findings.

We have left the tubs on the window sill of our classrooms and we’re going to see if any thing happens to the salty, sugary and sandy water.

We also wanted to discover which items were waterproof and which weren’t waterproof. Miss Simpson and Mrs Adams put different things in a bag. We put them into our water tray to see if they absorbed all the water or if the water just ran off the top. We found out that woollen things like hats and socks weren’t waterproof but plastic things like bath toys and hard hats were!