Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

Our week started off with a bang! Mr Wells and Miss Baillie joined our classroom during a Literacy lesson. We were learning about the importance of adjectives in our writing and how important it is to use creative adjectives to help our readers create a clear picture of what we are writing. Things got rather strange, one minute Mrs Matos was there, and the next…poof! She was gone, MISSING!! She had just been teaching us about adjectives and we all got to work using creative adjectives to describe our missing teacher. We used a missing person’s poster layout to help us describe her….and after all the adjectives that were used, and creative posters that were created, Mrs Matos was found!! Do ask us about our lesson, as we now know how to add more detail to our stories for you to get a clearer picture of went happened during our lesson.

BINGO!! We played some rounding bingo for numeracy this week.  The game helped us to use our knowledge on rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100’s. We also learned to use rounding in calculations for addition and subtraction, as it is easier to calculate numbers which are in 10’s or 100’s. We even managed to use the rounding strategy during number talks which we realised was a very efficient strategy to use. Try asking us some calculations at home and we can practice using the rounding strategy.

We continued to  practice some ball skills in PE this week. As our  focus is on basket ball, we practiced some dribbling and some different passes.

Bonjour! We’ve been practising our greetings this week in 1+2. We word together with a partner . In speech bubbles we wrote down the dialogue that we spoke to each other.  Keep your eye out for our dialogue on  our French wall display in our classroom. This activity helped us to practice our pronunciation  and extend our writing in French. Next week we will focus on feelings, how to ask how someone is feeling and the  appropriate responds to being asked how we feel.

We’ve been using the class atlas and netbooks to research key facts and features of the River Forth. We created our own representation of the River Forth and added in some key features to our representations. We have been using the netbooks to research different rivers around the world, and we voted for the river that we would like to compare the river Forth to. The Amazon river was the winning river. In the next few weeks, we will be comparing the features of the two rives.

Last week Friday Miss Baillie set the school a writing challenge, and as we are fond of challenges and competitions, we were keen to show Miss Baillie what  star writers we are. We wrote poems about Autumn in Linlithgow, our poems described what Autumn looks like, feels like, and smells like in Linlithgow to us. We spent some time planning our poems, some poems were acrostic poems and some were poems that rhymed.  After our planning we used the netbooks to type our poems, we were creative with using a range of fonts, and page borders.  Mrs Matos is so pleased with our efforts that she is very sure that we will have a few winners from our class.

On Friday, it was the first of our various committee meetings. remember to ask us about our chosen committee and what we have planned for this session!

Lastly a massive well done to all P6A learners, Miss Baillie awarded the class with Class of the week in assembly on Friday. Mrs Matos is very proud of all the boys and girls in P6A.