Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School
Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
For Numeracy, we focused our attention to giving change and buying goods using our knowledge on addition and subtraction while using money. This will be concentrating on this for the next few days/ weeks.
In Literacy, we have been learning to write opinions which will help us persuade our reader.
Primary 3/4
Dear All
This week in literacy we did a book review. The p3’s met an author and illustrator.
In numeracy we did money and what we had to do was give money and change.
In health and wellbeing we did walk a mile. We went to NYCOS and music. In NYCOS we did beats and rhythm. In music we made a Viking song.
In learning across the curriculum we finished our Viking boats and did more of How to train a Dragon.
Hope you have a good weekend!
Typed by Charley Eilidh Sarah and Sofia
Dear All
We won class of the week!
This week in literacy we learned about adverbs and verbs. We did dictation and spelling on ‘ie’ words. We listened to our ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ class novel.
In French we learned about different food and drink including ice-cream and pizza!
In numeracy we used concrete maths materials to see links between subtraction and addition. We played fact families on the smartboard for addition and subtraction and then used Heinemann textbooks to write out our facts in numbers and symbols.
In health and wellbeing we were talking about who we trusted. We also played Gaelic football.
In learning across the curriculum we learned about the Vikings and made longboats. For Chinese New Year we made fortune tellers. In music we were learning a song in Gaelic. In NYCOS we listed to claps of a song and guessed where the claps stopped.
Lily says “we love school!” and Mark says “it was a great week!”
Hope you have a good long weekend!
It has been such an inspiring week for P4 children as they got to hear ” Tom, the Piper” play some traditional Scottish music. His visit in the P3/4 and P4 classroom paved the way to question and answer opportunities. What a great way for children to practice their question making skills.
Our Viking focus is starting to become quite exciting. Children were able to produce imaginative writing pieces of work. Revision on VCOP strategies took place during this task.
Reading and Art-The P4s harnessed their comprehension skills during their longboat making activity (they had to follow written instructions). This also gave children a chance to practice their teamwork skills.
In Numeracy, we continued learning to calculate sums using mental subtraction method. The children used the numberline to help them get their answers. Revision work on symmetry was also done this week. The children created their own tartan pattern. They also had to apply their skills in estimation and measurement by using rulers to create the shape of a kilt.
For Music (NYCOS) the children explored the rhythm- how to make and follow it.
Dear All
Thanks to everyone who managed to come along to the children’s assembly today and for all your lovely comments. We really appreciated them!
Next Week’s home learning is:
Reading
Pages covered in class from reading books
Choose literacy task from Viking Home Learning Grid:
(• Write a Viking saga.• Write a fact file about a Viking god or goddess.• Read a novel about Vikings and tell a friend or family member about it.)
As recommended on dojo, these are not tasks that need to be all completed in a week. It is an independent project for the children to choose and work on over this term (to be completed by 12th March).
Spelling
Learn words written out from sheet. These are the last of the Level 2 words. I will be assessing the children again to see what improvement they have made.
| -ed | -ed |
| dented | melted |
| dusted | mended |
| ended | planted |
| funded | rusted |
| grunted | tested |
| handed | |
| hunted | |
| landed | |
| lifted | |
| listed |
Numeracy
Play number bonds games on Sumdog or Education City:
Bond the multiples of 5 with 100 e.g. 65 and 35, 55 and 45, 45
Optional
Choose an additional task from Viking home learning grid (not literacy or numeracy).
We have a few events coming up:
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Kind Regards
Louise
Dear All
This week in literacy we learned when to use proper nouns. We learned the soft ‘g’, ‘ee’ and ‘ea’ spelling words. We started reading ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ which is about a Viking. We designed badges about Vikings. We described the main character ‘Hiccup’ and drew a picture of him. We researched Vikings on the netbook and typed the facts up and wrote in our literacy jotters.
In French we learned how to say different fruits using High Five French. We found out that the French say “I have an apple red instead of a red apple”.
In numeracy we used ‘Freddie’s pocket’ to practice counting money subtraction on a number line. We played number games on the smartboard.
In health and wellbeing we learned about Growth Mindset and did our assembly on it. Hope you enjoyed it!
In learning across the curriculum we had Piper Tommy in to play the bagpipes as we have been learning about Scottish crafts and music. He played The Flower of Scotland, The Skye Boat song and the Flight of the Bumble Bee. He showed us how the bagpipes worked. It was loud and he played them very fast. He was wearing the Couper tartan kilt and a hat. It was green and purple. He wore a sporran on his kilt. He had a traditional Scottish knife in his long green sock. He had holes in his shoes as the original shoes were like Roman sandals to let water out. In music we played instruments to Katie Bairdie and we recorded it. We learned rhythms in NYCOS using a rhyming song. In Science we learned where we would find water and made plants representing worlds.
Hope you have a good weekend!
This year’s P6 and P7 school show, The Lion King, takes place on Tuesday 6th March and Wednesday 7th March at Linlithgow Academy from 7.30-9pm. Tickets will be on sale next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday outside P7b’s classroom from 3.15-3.30pm for ALL parents, carers and families of Springfield.
Please come along if you would like to purchase tickets, they are priced at £5 for adults and £3 for children. You’ll need to get them fast though as they’re selling out quickly!
Thank you
P6 and P7 x
Dear All
This Week’s home learning is:
Reading
Pages covered in class from reading books
Please try to borrow a book on Vikings or look on the internet for 3 facts. Write them in home learning jotter or type and print out or send to me.
Spelling
Learn words written out from sheet
Numeracy
Number line subtraction (choice of sheets)Home Learning WB 29.1.18
Optional
Choose a task from Viking home learning grid (but not literacy or numeracy). Thank you to everyone who have already chosen a task. It wasn’t requested for this week but great to see the enthusiasm for our new interdisciplinary learning on the Vikings. We have a Viking coming in to visit on Thursday 8th March!
Piper
We have a piper coming in on Thursday at 11am. (Thank you Mrs Couper) The children can wear something tartan if they have it.
Assembly
As advised previously, assembly is this Friday. Children should wear their school uniform as usual.
This week’s blog is written by some of the P4 children.
Literacy
OL- We have been learning about homophone mix ups. Like, there/ their and are/ our.
LL- We have been learning to write in full sentences. (This meant that children have also been revising on turning questions into statements).
ICT
JC- We were looking for information about the “Flower of Scotland”song.
The children did some digging around for the history behind the song.
IDL-
FM- We have been learning about where the Vikings lived.
SD- We danced to Scottish folk song. We sung and we wrote a review of the song “Ally, Bally Bee”
Numeracy
MS- We’ve been learning to read and use grids.
E0- We’ve been learning to find things by using or finding the coordinates
Health and Well- being
JP- We did fixed mindset and growth mindset.
EM- I learnt that I should “Never say I can’t. Say, I can’t do it yet!!-
Dear All
This week in literacy we did a spelling test on the soft g and the hard g sound. We also did the mp, nd and ng sounds. We learned about common nouns and proper nouns.
In French we made a mind map of ourselves, the people who are important to us, our pets and our hobbies, then we wrote the French words.
In numeracy we did grid references using battleships, zoos, maps and a giant floor map of Scotland. We also learned double and near doubles playing a dinosaur game. We practised our times tables and got up to our 7 times table in 5 minutes.
In health and wellbeing we played Gaelic football in the wing. We had lots of visitors in to see our learning and they said we were very focused and amazing!
In learning across the curriculum we researched different tartans and made up our own tartans. We practised for our assembly next week. We started thinking about what we would like to know about the Vikings as we are starting our new topic next week.
Typed by Daniel Wilson and Mark Linton
Hope you have a good weekend!
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