Yesterday, with Mr Cook, we learned how to use crayons and paint to create fantastic Hallowe’en pictures. We drew Hallowe’en themed objects, and sponged on black paint. They look fabulous.

Today, with Mrs Sutherland, we learned how to put shapes together to make pumpkin faces. They’ve brightened up our corridor.

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook

Dracula loved seeing all of your fantastic costumes at the Hallowe’en Disco tonight. I hope you all had a brilliant night!

Mr Cook

Primary 1 really enjoyed their visit to the cinema today. Mr Cook and Mrs Paul were so impressed at how the Primary 1 children were ambassadors for Lochardil Primary School whilst at Eden Court.

The storyline told us about two girls who had a new home and school. Combined with the magic and mystery of the forest, we saw a happy ending which brought a tear to the eye of Mr Cook. The themes of friendship, new beginnings and family were all explored. This has been a great link to our ‘Ourselves’ topic.

Check out the video below:

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See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook

We’ve another member of our P1 class who joined the 5 club last week. Happy Birthday, Harry!

P1C

What a quick two weeks the October break was! It was great to be back together on Tuesday – especially finding out we have some 5 year olds in our class now. We look forward to celebrating some more fifth birthdays this term.

PE
This term, we continue to have PE on a Monday and a Wednesday. If you’d prefer, they can wear their PE kit underneath their clothes on these days.

STAFFING
The management time within the school has changed this term. Instead of every second Friday, I will be out of class each Thursday on management. Mrs Sutherland will be teaching P1C on a Thursday.

LEO THE LION
Our class mascot, Leo the Lion, made a couple of home visits last term. He will continue to arrive home with one lucky P1 on a Friday afternoon to take part in your weekend adventures. It would be great if you could write a few sentences in their home/school diary about what Leo got up to. You could also include a photograph if you wished.

TRAVEL AGENTS
Thank you for all of the pictures and postcards that you provided for our Travel Agents last term. These will be returned this week within your child’s homework folder.

FANCY DRESS SHOP
We arrived back yesterday to a Fancy Dress Shop within our classroom – complete with dressing-up outfits, costume booklets and a REAL till. Through our mini-topic of ‘A Fancy Dress Shop’, your child will explore the adventures of Mr Benn that we will use for role-play activities. If you have any pictures of your child when they were dressed up (perhaps at Hallowe’en or a party), or any old clothes that you’d like to donate to our dressing up rail, these would be kindly accepted.

SHOWING
Your child, if they wish, can choose something to bring along and talk about with the class on the following date during our ‘Showing Time’:

Just a quick reminder, we are going to the cinema on Tuesday 29th October 2013. Please ensure your child has a snack with them for their visit. The permission slip and £2 should be handed in by this Friday, 25th October 2013, at the latest if you have not done so.

Mr Cook

Over the holidays, Mr Cook was busy finding things to put in our fantastic new Adventure Corner. We said goodbye to the Travel Agents before the holidays. When we came back to school today, there was a brand new FANCY DRESS SHOP. We have a REAL till with REAL money to use when we are customers and shop assistants.

We’re hoping to get some more dress-up clothes over the next few weeks.

Mr.Cook

Mr Cook arrived back in school today to find out that we had four FANTASTIC FIVES who had their fifth birthday over the holidays.

Happy 5th Birthday to Jayden.J, Emma, Mia and Lily!

Mr Cook and Primary 1C

We’ve arrived at the end of our first term in Primary 1 – I can’t believe how quick it has come around.

In Literacy we’ve learned the first 25 phonic sounds inside your child’s home/school diaries, we’ve begun learning our ‘Look and Say’ words, we’ve created stories through drawing and overwriting, we’ve been learning how to write the letters o, c, a and d, and started reading our Oxford Reading Tree stories with Biff, Chip and Kipper.

In Numeracy we’ve been counting objects within ten, learning how to write numbers within 5, and we’ve created sequences using objects and daily routines.

Through our topic ‘Ourselves’ we’ve learned and shared our likes and dislikes as well as exploring our new surroundings within the school.

We say goodbye to our Travel Agents which has provided us with many learning opportunities – there will be an exciting new role play corner after the holidays.

To continue to support your child’s development, over the October break, continue to practise:

• ‘Look and Say’ words within the Word Pouch
• Phonic sounds and actions (Sound Pouch now in folder)
• Writing letters ‘o’, ‘c’, ‘a’ and ‘d’
• Writing numbers ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’

I’ve popped a Sound Pouch with all of the sounds your child has done so far into their homework folder. These sounds can be used to help your child build words by blending sounds together. E.g. s-a-t or p-i-g. Please see the phonic leaflet for game suggestions.

I look forward to seeing you all back on Tuesday 22nd October at 9am,

Mr Cook

Pupil of the Month – September 

Max has been chosen as our Star Pupil as he has been a great friend to others in the playground. He likes to help others out in the classroom, being a great Helping Hand to Mr Cook.

Yesterday we tea-stained our pirate maps to make them look really old. Today we drew our pirate treasure maps, based on our school adventure that we went on last week.

One more day until the holidays . . .
Mr.Cook

Come to our Hallowe’en Disco – organised by the P6/7 pupils. Return your slip along with £2 by Friday

Check out our funky number 5s. We used tissue paper and glue to create them:

2 more days before the holidays . . .
Mr.Cook

We’re learning all about the Number 5 this week.

Tonight you should complete your ‘Number 5’ page within your homework booklet.

We liked this Numberjacks clip yesterday – it told us the story of the number 5:

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Numberjacks – NUMBER 5 – CLICK HERE!