Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

This week, we learned two new sounds, ‘ou’ and ‘ow’. When learning the ‘ou’ sound, we played bingo with different ‘ou’ words and pictures, played ‘ou’ games on the computer, looked for ‘ou’ words in a word search and practised reading and writing the ‘ou’ sound and words containing ‘ou’. We also worked with a partner to write different ‘ou’ words on our whiteboards.

When learning the ‘ow’ sound, we made different ‘ow’ words with jewels, pebbles, Lego and small world people, worked with a partner to highlight ‘ow’ words in a text, drew pictures with the ‘ow’ sound in and practised writing ‘ow’ words and we used these in sentences. Our three new common words were ‘made’, ‘make’ and ‘like’.

This week we have been learning subtraction facts for 6-10. We have been playing dice games to practise our subtraction facts, playing Subtraction Bowling and Subtraction Smash, working with a partner to create and solve subtraction sums and we have been playing subtraction games on Education City.

On Thursday, we were learning to use non-standard units to measure length and height. We used our hands and feet to find objects which were longer/shorter than these body parts and then we used paper clips, cubes and counters to estimate and then measure the length and height of different objects.

On Monday afternoon some nursery children came to visit to see what it’s like in P1! Miss Harrison read us all a story and then we helped to look after the nursery children whilst they were playing. We were super buddies to the nursery children and made them feel very welcome.

On Friday morning, the buddies came to see us and help us learn on the laptops. They helped us to log on to the computers using a password, identify the Google Chrome icon and they supported us with using key words to find information on the internet.

The rest of our week was taken up with preparing and practising for our class assembly! On Friday we had lots of mums, dads, family and friends into school to present our assembly. We did an absolutely amazing job and we enjoyed sharing our learning, achievements and memories of P1 with everyone.  Miss Harrison was extremely proud of us and felt very emotional! We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped us to prepare for our assembly and to all the mums, dads, family and friends for coming along this morning to see our assembly.

As always, thank you very much for reading our blog post. We hope that you all have a lovely weekend.

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

Even though it’s been a short week, we have been very busy in P1A! This week we were revising the ‘ew’ sound and learning new common words. We have been looking for common words in our reading books, using common words in sentences, unscrambling sentences, writing common words on graffiti walls and playing games with our common words on the laptops. Next week we will be learning two new sounds (‘ou’ and ‘ow’) and three new common words (‘made’, ‘like’ and ‘make’).

During Number Talks, we have been looking at dot images and ten frames. We are really good at talking about our strategies and at using the Number Talks hand signals. This week we have also been learning subtraction facts for 6 and linking addition and subtraction facts for doubles to 10. On Wednesday, we used our play chalk to write subtraction facts for 6 in the playground. Next week we will be learning subtraction facts for 6-10.

On Wednesday, we started our Internet Safety lessons. We enjoyed watching Hector’s World and meeting all the characters. We learned that some information is precious and unique to each individual. This is called personal information. We discussed that you should only share personal information with adults that you know and trust.

This week we have been working very hard with practising for our assembly. We went into the hall today and had our first practice with the microphones! Miss Harrison said her words far too quickly and quietly so we made sure that we spoke clearly and at a good pace. Miss Harrison was very impressed! Our assembly is next Friday at 10.00am.

Due to technical issues on the blog last week, we were unable to post and we shared our photos of our learning and our trips to Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway and Linlithgow Loch on ClassDojo instead. However, here are a few more photos of our trip to Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway. In our writing lesson, we wrote reports on our school trip using words such as ‘first’, ‘next’, ‘then’ and ‘finally’ to order our ideas. We used capital letters, full stops and finger spaces and most of us were able to use our sounds to write words and sentences. Our trip was a big success and we enjoyed going on the steam train to Manuel, eating our lunch on the train, going through the dark tunnel and visiting the museum. Thank you very much to all of the parents who helped us on both of our trips. Here are some more photos…

We hope that you all have a lovely weekend. Thank you for reading our blog post,

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂