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!

The Parent Council have prepared a tea towel for Lochardil Primary School. The school opened for it’s first session in August 1964. So, after all the hard work from the children, teachers and staff at the school we are delighted to offer for sale two different Lochardil Primary School Tea Towels. One towel is for P1 – P3 and the second is for P4 – P7.

Whilst the towels will be available to buy later in the year, you can pre-order your towels now to ensure that you are able to get one (or 2 or 3!) which will make great Christmas presents.

Order forms will be available from the school from Monday 30th September.

Please follow the links to view the towels and access the order form.

Lochardil Primary P1-3
Lochardil Primary P4-7
Tea Towel Order Form

This week we’re working on writing the letter ‘d’. Its very similar to our ‘a’ from last week.

Tonight you should complete your letter ‘d’ formation page in your homework book.

Mr.Cook

As promised, here’s a few of our ‘A’ – Apple Prints. The washing line is fixed back onto the wall – thanks to a bit of help from Miss Shimmield this afternoon.

Lots of you went home with a bag of cakes today from the Coffee Afternoon – I hope you don’t eat them all at once.

Have a wonderful weekend,
Mr.Cook

A reminder that the Macmillan Coffee Afternoon, organised by the P6/7s, is tomorrow, Friday 27th September 1.45pm – 2.45pm. There are 3 ways in which you can support the event:

1. Provide baking for the Coffee Afternoon – to be handed in Friday morning
2. Attend the Coffee Afternoon – Friday 27th September – 1.45pm – 2.45pm
3. Allow your child to purchase a cake by providing them with a donation of £1

Thank you for your support with the event!

Today in Art we developed the skill of printing, creating pictures of the letter A, using apples.

The pictures are still drying, so we’ll get some photographs up by the end of the week – once they’ve been hung up.

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook

This week, we’re learning how to write the number 4.

Tonight you should complete the Number 4 page within your Number Formation Homework Booklet.

Remember to keep practising your numbers 1, 2 and 3.

Mr.Cook

This afternoon, we had a message delivered from Captain Crusader. He’d delivered us a treasure map that ‘x’ marked the spot.

We went out on our journey to the field to find the ‘x’. When we got there, we found another clue. Our journey took us to the willow structure, the back gate, the climbing wall, and finally to the P6/7 garden.

When we arrived in the P6/7 garden, we found a treaure box, marked with a skull and crossbones. Inside there were eye-patches, gold coins and stickers.

We came back to the classroom and sung some pirate songs.

Shiver me’ timbers . . .

Mr.Cook

Today we learned how to form an ‘a’. We start off the ‘a’ like the ‘c’, but we have to remember the back and the tail.

The ‘a’ formation page in your letter homework should be completed tonight, along with your reading.

Mr.Cook

This week we went on an adventure. We explored the willow structure in the field, and the garden which has been created by the P6/7s.

We were looking at all the wonderful colours of the Autumn leaves – red, orange, yellow, and brown . . .

We’ve created some fantastic leaf rubbings which we’ve put up in the classroom.

Have a great weekend!
Mr.Cook

We’ve been very busy the past two days practising the letter c and the number 3.

Please keep practising at home over the weekend. You could do this with a pencil and paper, maybe with a paintbrush and water or with the plasticine. All of these are good ways of practising your letters and numbers.

Today’s sound was ‘f’ – this was a little bit tricky. Here’s Geraldine to help!

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Until tomorrow amigos!
Mr.Cook

This term we’ve begun our ‘Ourselves’ topic in Primary 1. So far we’ve settled into our new classroom, we’ve found out a bit about what we get up to at home through our writing, and we’ve learned  the names for the different parts of our body.

We have some more questions which we’d like to ask:

• What makes us all different?
• Why do we need a nose?
• What do we like to do around the place we live?
• What are our favourite things?

If anyone at home as any other questions they’d like us to investigate, please comment these on our blog. We did some self-portraits on Monday. Check the pictures out below:

Today we went on an adventure around the school. Ask your child to tell you about the leaf adventure!

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook

This week, we’ve been learning how to write the number 3. In school we are practising using the white boards, in the air, and on paper.

You should complete the second page of your ‘Number Formation Booklet’ for ‘Number 3’ tonight.

Please continue to practise the numbers 1, 2 and 3 at home!

Mr.Cook

This week we are practising the formation of the letter ‘c’ in class. The children need to complete the second page of their letter formation homework booklet (‘c’ formation) and return to school.

Continue to work on the letter ‘c’ this week at home. Your child also has a reading book home with them tonight.

Let’s get writing the letter ‘c’!
Mr.Cook

Well Done to Jayden who got our Pupil of the Month for September!

Jayden enters the classroom every morning with a massive smile. She has been a great Helping Hand in the classroom, showing off her skill as a super tidier. Well done Jayden!

I hope everyone has a great weekend! I look forward to seeing any of you that can make it to the school fete tomorrow. I’ll be at the jam jar stall – even though some P7s have said that I’m at ‘Sponge The Teacher’.

Mr.Cook

We’d love to hear some feedback about Meet The Teacher today. Click on the link below to leave a comment about your visit to Lochardil.

Meet the Teacher Feedback – CLICK HERE!

It was great to see all of the visitors in our classroom today for Meet The Teacher. We hope you enjoyed seeing our art work, our new classroom and some of the activities we do in P1.

If you really enjoyed Geraldine – why don’t you watch it again to help learn the ‘g’ sound?

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See you in the morning,
Mr.Cook

Today, we had a special visitor in Primary 1. Her name was Susanne, and she was from a charity called Headway Highland.

She showed us a DVD about a boy who was silly and didn’t wear a helmet when he was on his bike.

We then got to do an experiment with an egg. In the first experiment the egg had a helmet on. When it was dropped to the floor, it was protected by the helmet. In the second experiment, the egg was in a plastic bag – we watched it go SPLAT on the floor.
Susanne reminded us that we HAVE to wear a helmet when we are on our bikes as it keeps our head safe!

Thank you for our special visit Susanne!

This week, we’ve been learning how to write the number 2. In school we are practising using the white boards, in the air, on paper, and we’re hoping to use plasticine as well.

You should complete the first page of your ‘Number Formation Booklet’ for ‘Number 2’.

We like watching El Nombre – he shows us how to write our numbers properly.

Enjoy practising writing the number 2 at home!
Mr.Cook

This week we are practising the formation of the letter ‘o’ in class. The children need to complete the first page of their ‘o’ homework booklet and return to school.

Why not practise ‘o’ at home? – in the air, when the bathroom mirror is steamy, in a sink of water when washing your hands.

Let’s get writing the letter ‘o’!
Mr.Cook

In Art this week, we learned how to make a type of picture called a mosaic. We used lots of little bits paper and material to stick onto our people. We think that all of the fantastic colours brighten up the corridor. We can’t wait for you to see them next week at Meet The Teacher.

Have a fantastic weekend,

Mrs Sutherland will be in on Monday and Tuesday next week.

Mr.Cook

Lochardil Primary School Fete is on:

Saturday 14th September 11.30am – 1.30pm

LOCHARDIL PRIMARY SCHOOL

We’re looking for your help in the way of donations:

Filled Jam Jars for the Tombola & Home Baking

We look forward to seeing you there –
The Parent Council

After two days away in the Education Office, Mr Cook was really looking forward to getting back to Primary 1 today.

As Mrs Caddell said in the letter sent home today, tomorrow is our BIG MOVE from our classroom next to the Nursery into another classroom in the school.

It’s really exciting as we’ll be next to the other P1 and P2 children, and it will make break-time, lunch-time, and going to the toilet much easier.

Mr Cook is really looking forward to the new classroom – and we will hopefully be in it by tomorrow afternoon!

Miss Shimmield will meet you in the line tomorrow!

Mr.Cook

What a busy day today was. Mr Cook will not be in class the next two days, Mrs Sutherland will be in class instead.

ART

This term, it’s time to get arty. To save our school clothes from getting paint on them, we’re wondering if you could bring in an old t-shirt/shirt which can be put on when we’re painting (Adult’s shirts/t-shirts can be great for this also, as they act as a painting apron). Our first art lesson will be tomorrow, Tuesday 27th August 2013.Thank you!

SHOWING

Each Friday afternoon, before assembly, we’ll be doing ‘showing’. This is where your child can bring along something – maybe a toy or a photograph – and talk about it in-front of the class for 1 minute. Here is this term’s ‘Showing Rota’. Instead of bringing an item, they might just want to talk about something they like to do. We use showing to build your child’s confidence when talking within the classroom.

READING

Reading homework begins this week. Please look inside the front cover of your child’s book, you will find questions which you can discuss. The purpose of reading the wordless books is for your child to re-tell you the story they’ve heard in school. This should be returned to school tomorrow.

See you all Thursday,
Mr.Cook

What a quick week this week was – Mr Cook can’t believe that it’s Friday evening already. By the looks of things, all of the boys and girls had a great day with Miss Shimmield.

We’ve got PE first thing on Monday morning. Remember, you can wear your school uniform under your clothes. It might make it a bit easier for getting changed in the morning.

We’ve been very busy learning our sounds – this weekend – remember to practise ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘t’ and ‘i’.

Click the picture of the ducks to hear the ‘5 Little Ducks’ song – it’s been our favourite so far!

Look forward to seeing you all on Monday!
Mr.Cook

Today we got our home/school diary home. We have to practise the ‘s’ and the ‘a’ sounds and actions at home.

Look at the pictures of our classroom:

See you tomorrow!
Mr.Cook

Hello P1! What a fantastic day we had today.

We really enjoyed learning about the ‘s’ sound. Geraldine the Giraffe helped us find words using the ‘s’ sound, and we learned a song and actions too. Maybe the boys and girls would like to show mums and dads at home.

Mr Cook is looking forward to another super day tomorrow!

Mr.Cook

Bear with us whilst the NEW blogs are being updated for next session.

We look forward to seeing everyone back on:

Tuesday 20th August 2013

P4 – P7 – 8.50am – 3.00pm
P1 – P3 – 9.00am – 2.45pm
AM nursery – 9.00am – 11.30am
PM nursery – 12.25pm – 2.55pm

Have a great holiday!