Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

We have had another very busy week in Primary 1.

In French we revised our numbers to 5, and now count up to 10. We also learnt “Jacques a dit” Simon Says in French. That was a fun game.

We got a surprise today to receive a letter all the way from France. It had “Bonne Annee” “Happy New Year” cards, from our French penpals. They live in Fontenay Le Fleury which is near Paris. They are P2 children who enjoy learning English. Listen to us singing a song to them in French.

In Numeracy this week we started our subtraction journey. We have learnt that there are lots of ways to say subtraction like minus and take away. We know that when we subtract the number gets smaller. Our favourite part was probably when we had to subtract marshmallows from 10…by eating them…we may need some more practise at home !

We also enjoyed playing some subtraction games like subtraction 4 in a row and subtraction smash with the play doh.

We really loved playing this smoothie game which helps us practise our subtraction within 10. When playing this select “subtraction facts for 10”.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/smoothie/index.html

We also did a little bit more on time by learning how to tell o’clock times. Mrs Gordon couldn’t believe how quickly we picked this up, we didn’t even get tricked with 6 o’clock. Show us a clock or a watch and see if we can tell you an o’clock time.

In Literacy this week we learnt about digraphs. A digraph is when 2 letters join to make one sound. This week that sound was sh. We learnt about words like ship, shut, mash and fish. We read a story about Sharon the shark and when Mrs Gordon said sh we had to put our fingers to our lips…there were a lot of sh sounds in that story! Our new common words this week are “go” and “we”, look out for them in our reading books.

Happy weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a

 

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

Thank you for all of the well wishes following the babybell news. The children have all been very sweet and have given me lots of baby advice.

In Literacy we have been practising sounding out words and writing a sentence. We listened to the story ‘Snow Bear’ and shared all the facts we know about polar bears. Then we used the internet to find out more. We each picked one fact to write as a sentence. We are working hard to remember finger spaces, capital letter at the beginning and a full stop at the end. Here is our super work:

In Numeracy we did some revision of addition to 10. We are very good at finding out the answer by counting how many altogether and using cubes. We need more practise at counting on in our heads. For example, 5+2, some of us are counting 1 2 3 4 5. We know that we can solve the sum quicker if we keep 5 in our head and count on. This is something we could work on verbally at home.

Here’s a video we sing along to that helps us to remember our number bonds to 10:

In Health and well-being we looked at what it means to be resilient. We talked about the things we can do (because we’ve practised them lots) and the things we can’t do…YET. We discussed that everyone has things that they can’t do…yet. Even grown-ups!

New homework and reading books will go home on Monday. As we have learned all our initial sounds, we are getting more confident at sounding out words when we read. Don’t forget to say the word after sounding it out to ensure understanding. Eg, I saw a b-i-g big c-a-t cat. We know that we don’t need to sound out tricky words because we just know them (I, saw, the, to, etc). Any questions about how best to support your child with reading please just ask 🙂

Some photos of our free play fun this week:

Admin/reminders for this term:

• PE is on Tuesday and Wednesdays – please make sure long hair is tied back
• Music with Ms Bain on Thursdays
• Show and Tell (optional) on Thursdays
• Special toy (optional) on Fridays

Date for the diary:

Friday 6th March at 10am – our class assembly

Have a lovely weekend!

Love P1B and Mrs Bell x

In the last week before we break for the Christmas holidays we have been keeping ourselves very busy in P3B.  We have been using our numeracy skills to complete Christmas Maths challenges using our knowledge of place value, addition, the one hundred square and symmetry.  We also took part in a Christmas maths challenge where we worked in teams to solve problems which were written in a context.  We found some of the questions very challenging!

In Technology we took part in a team building challenge where we had to use newspaper, glue and cello tape to build the tallest tower we could.  The tower had to stand on its own for at least 12 seconds and support the weight of a small tigger toy.  We had to work together as a team, listen to each other and work efficiently as the challenge was set against the clock.  We had 15 minutes to complete the challenge.  Some of the towers were not strong enough but the winning tower managed to stand on its own to support the tigger toy and was 22cm tall.  We then discussed how well we performed as a team, what went well and what we would do differently the next time.  One of the most important lessons we learned was not to rush into the task but to come up with a plan before starting the challenge.  We then put these ideas into practice when we took part in the second challenge to design and make a pair of shoes for the class Christmas elf.  The shoes had to fit a member of the team and be able to come off and on.  The shoes had to be strong enough to walk around the classroom without falling apart and meet the design brief written by the elf.  We all had great fun designing, making the shoes and learning valuable team skills.

On Tuesday we had our Christmas party with the P4’s.  We all had a great time dancing, singing and taking part in all the different games.  Mr Wells was the DJ and he kept us all amused with his singing and jokes.   We were all quite exhausted after the party!

This week we also learned how to plant bulbs which were kindly donated to the school.  We put three bulbs in our pots and have taken them home to look after them.  We hope they will grow and produce a beautiful display in the spring.

Today we performed our song “Frosty the Snowman” at the Carols around the Christmas tree concert.  We gave a tiggerrific performance and also showed off some of our amazing snowmen designs during the performance.

We are now all looking forward to our holidays and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

From Mr Ritchie and the tiggerrific P3B’s.