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Fairyland Restored!

Happy Easter to everyone from Mrs Lloyd and P1b.

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P1b were delighted to receive a letter from the dragon today thanking them for the wallpaper that they worked alongside P1a to design.  The children worked together in mixed teams to share ideas and resources and to design some fairytale wallpaper to brighten up the friendly dragons new castle.  The dragon loved the wallpaper and sneaked into school last night to collect it.  He has already hung it up in the castle and the gingerbread man has already popped by to have a peek!  Doesn’t it look fantastic?!

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Fantastic French in P1b

P1b had a special visitor today as Mrs Keegan came along from St. Ninians Primary to work on some French with us.  Mrs Keegan was impressed with the super listening skills and with the French speaking too.  The children managed to tell Mrs Keegan and Sophie the Elephant their name, how they were feeling, they sang some songs in French and even played a colour game!  Well done boys and girls you should all be super proud of yourselves!

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Beanstalk Success!

Well done to Nathan Campbell (and his family) who have tenderly been looking after the beanstalk which Nathan planted in school and then took home.  After hearing about how well it was growing at parents evening I couldn’t resist asking for a photo and have to say I am very impressed!  If anyone else is having success with their beanstalk then we would love to see it!  Well done!!

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Data Handling in P1b

P1b were learning all about graphs this week.  We discussed our favourite characters from some fairy tales and made our votes using our ‘voting sponges’.  This helped us to count up which character had the most votes and to talk about the most and least popular characters.  We worked out that most people preferred the friendly dragon over the gingerbread man and that Rapunzel was the favourite character over Golidlocks and Little Red Riding Hood.  We then used what we had learned to help us create our own Easter graphs.  Super results achieved – well done P1b!

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Marvellous Maths in P1b

P1b have been working hard today with drawing and counting objects to 20 and beyond.  Miss Dyet worked with the children and was very impressed with their accurate counting and number formation.  We tried out some tips on how to count large groups of objects and found that marking the objects that we had counted helped us to make sure we hadn’t counted any objects twice and hadn’t missed any out!

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Literacy in P1b

P1b were practising their group work skills today when they were working in teams to think of adjectives to describe the big, bad wolf.  The children worked together really well in their teams and thought of some super adjectives like mean, nasty, sneaky and evil!

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We have also been working on our rhyming skills and completed some super independent rhyme work.  Well done boys and girls!  Keep up the good work!

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Fairtrade Fortnight

As its Fairtrade Fortnight P1b have been learning all about Fairtrade.  We met Pablo the banana (on the smartboard!) who told us about banana farmers and how hard they work.  We were sad to hear that some farmers work very hard but don’t get a fair price for their goods.  We took part in some drama a
ctivities and pretended to be banana farmers.  Some farmers got a fair price and felt happy, other farmers only got a small amount of money and felt sad.  We also sorted some pictures on the smartboard and learned about what th fairtrade logo looks like.

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Watch out for the Big Bad Wolf!

P1b have been looking at the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ this week.  We have been practising our detailed line drawings on whiteboards before drawing pictures of the wolf with the black pens.  We used writing pencils to shade in our wolves and are very proud of the results!

We also used different colours of paper to produce some artistic pictures of Little Red Riding hood walking to granny’s house through the woods.  We had to cut the different shades of brown paper to make the trees, them assembled the triangles and cut some leg shapes to make Little Red Riding Hood and then finally we made the silhouette of the big bad wolf!

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Symmetry in P1b

Yesterday, during non-number maths P1b were learning all about symmetry.  We talked about what symmetry means and impressed Mrs Lloyd when we were putting spots onto a ladybird to make it symmetrical.  We also put a line of symmetry down our alphabet rug and had to position ourselves to make it symmetrical.  We were really good at it!

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World Book Day

P1b were looking good yesterday when lots of the children dressed up for world book day.  We have celebrated by reading some good stories in the library this week including ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and we have been writing wanted posters for Golidlocks and making pictures of her for our ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears Wall’ which we are very proud of.

Mrs Lloyd’s writing group have also been writing letters to the Three Bears from Golidlocks.  The quality of work produced was very high and the detail included was outstanding.  Well done boys and girls!

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