Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

This week started our class novel ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. We used our predicting skills and became book detectives to try and look for clues as to what the story may be about. We were introduced to the character of ‘Grandma’ and came up with a list of fabulous describing words. We then put these into sentences and drew some detailed pictures of Grandma. We also created our own Marvellous Medicines. We made a list of some rather disgusting and unusual ingredients then created a revolting recipe for other people to follow.

In phonics this week we have been revising some of our digraphs from last year. Miss Mudd’s group were looking at the wh and ai sounds and Mrs Burton’s group were looking at the oo and ew sounds.

In Maths we have been learning our numbers to 100. We have learnt to recognise them, read them, write them and order them. Miss Mudd gave us a team challenge and we had to help her piece together the 100 square as it was all in a muddle. We had to race to put it back together and we had to work as a team. We also revised 3D shape and talked about the different properties of shapes. We looked at the faces, edges and corners. We used the shapes to create models and identified the shapes we had used.

Our P2 Pals came to say hello and helped us with our ICT skills. We practised how to log on and even created our own wild characters online.

We got a little surprise in P2A this week. Paddington Bear was away on his holidays so he sent us a postcard telling us what he has been doing. We looked at lots of examples of postcards and came up with a list of things we would need to include when we wrote one. We practised using interesting describing words in our sentences to help us describe different places.

This week we started our new IDL topic ‘From Front Door to Sea Shore’. We planned the topic together by looking at what we already know, what we would like to know and wrote down questions we would like to answer. We used google maps to look at where we live and compared Springfield to seaside resorts that we have visited. We talked about what was similar and what was different about these environments. Mairi even showed us a beach she used to visit when she lived in Australia.

Formation Friday has returned! We have been pracisiting our number formation as Miss Mudd noticed some of us have been writing our numbers backwards. We worked around the active stations to make sure we were getting our numbers perfect!

Another busy week for us.  Miss Mudd wanted to thank you all for coming and showing your support at our ‘Meet the Teacher’ evening. She is really excited to work with you all this year and always appreciates your support.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Mudd and P2A x

Being inspired by last weeks visit to the Edinburgh book festival, we had spent a lot of time this week writing our own monster stories. Although the author Dave Rudden explained the writing process to us, we have been surprised how much hard work goes into writing an extraordinary story.  Mrs Matos has taught us about the three parts of writing. First we need to write all our ideas and thoughts down, we did this by making a story map, the next step is using the story map to help us write our first draft, during and after the first draft we practised our editing skills. We learnt the importance of proof reading as we managed to identify errors with our spelling and punctuation, and finally we could write our final draft, we used our edited first draft to up level our final draft of our monster stories. Mrs Matos is looking forward to reading our creative stories which we have worked so hard to complete.

This week in Numeracy we’ve been learning about different ways to collect data, and the reasons why and how we collect data in the world around us. We worked together to complete a survey on the classes, favourite sports, subject, food etc. Using the information we had gathered we drew up a tally chart. Using the tally chart we compiled all the information onto a bar chart. We have also spent some time this week learning to interpret bar graphs, we quickly learnt how deceiving some graphs may look.

Have you ever been worried before? This was a question that Mrs Matos asked us, Mrs Matos read or should we say dramatized the story of a Huge bag of worries. Mrs Matos had her own bag of worries that she was carrying around to, and showed us that if we don’t share our worries with someone how big the bag of worries can become. We confidently shared some of our worries with each other. Mrs Matos also showed us her special box on her table, that if ever we were worried about anything big or small that we can write it on a piece of paper and put it her worry box, Mrs Matos will then read our worry, and will try her best to help us.  We created our own bag of worries which we wrote down some of the worries in the bag.

Skipping, Hula hooping, balancing are just a few things we did in PE this week. Stations were set up around the hall, and we had to rotate through all the stations focusing on balancing, jumping, skipping and eye hand co-ordination. Miss Hardie even showed off some of her skipping skills too.

In 1 + 2 this week we practised some vocabulary, such as Salut, Au revoir, Bojour , Bonsoir etc. We focused not just knowing the English translation for each, but how to correctly pronounce the words.

From monsters to French words that sums up our learning, and we eager for it to all happen again next week.

P6A and Mrs MatosA