Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

This week has been another busy week for P3. In literacy we have been exploring the use of adjectives and how they can make our writing more interesting through describing animals from Madagascar. In addition we also looked at story writing, and the components which make a good story; the children enjoyed writing their stories about an animal from Madagascar coming to UK and Linlithgow!

P3 and P2/3 also had their first of six football lessons from an SFA coach as part of the Tesco Bank football challenge. On another sporty note, both classes are also looking forward to their benchball festival next Wednesday – wishing them all lots of luck!

On Wednesday our classroom turned into a junk yard when we finally got round to making our islands out of old junk from home; a huge thank you again for all your support in collecting these materials together. The children enjoyed working together to make their islands and are very excited to finish them off next week!

P7a

Another busy week in P1B.  We now have a castle in our classroom  – all the children worked hard to build it.  We put our name on the bricks so that everyone knows who made it!  We’ve been playing in it a lot – lots of role play going on with knights and baddies, kings and queens.

We have been reading the story of The Three Little Pigs this week.  We have been talking about and drawing the ‘setting’ of the story.  We have been writing some words from the story too, sounding out as we write. We all had a really good go and Mrs Kennedy is amazed at how well we are learning our sounds.  We also made puppets and worked in groups to put on shows, retelling the story.  We are very good at putting on different voices for different characters and using props.

Later in the week, some of us decided to be judges during the shows – we made notes and wrote down scores – great writing practise.

In maths we have been learning about gathering information and how to record it, using tally marks and pictographs.  We made a giant pictograph showing our favourite fruit.

We are a very creative bunch – during free play we have been really busy using lots of different materials to make signs and flags for the castle as well as masks, hats, bracelets and much more. Here we are with some of the things we’ve made. Mrs Kennedy is very pleased with all our problem solving, decision making and persistence 🙂

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.  P1B x

What a busy week we have had in P1A!

On Monday, we had gym. We were practising different movement skills such as jumping, throwing, catching, skipping and balancing. Look how smart we look in our gym kits!

Our sounds this week were ‘r’ and ‘m’. We have been learning to read, say and write our sounds. Some of us got covered in flour when Miss Harrison let us write ‘m’ in the flour trays! Next week our sounds will be ‘d’ and ‘e’.

In numeracy, we have been learning about tally marks and pictograms. We played a game on Education City and then we made our own pictograms. Some of the buddies came to see us on Wednesday and we played games using tally marks.

This week, we have been looking at the fairytale, ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We listened very carefully to the story and we were able to answer questions about it. On Wednesday, we made fantastic puppets. We worked well in our groups and made sure that everyone had a part to play. On Thursday, we retold the story using our puppets and put on a spectacular puppet show! Miss Harrison was very proud of us!

We had an exciting end to our week when we won Class of the Week! The trophy is in our classroom and we get to keep it until next Friday. Well done, P1A!

Thank you for reading our blog.

P1A 🙂

Hello,

It’s been another busy week in P7b, so we’ll use our summarising skills to give you a quick round up of the action.

In numeracy we have been consolidating our learning of decimals and money. We began by making the link to our previous work on fractions before ordering and sequencing them. As well as this, we have been adding, subtracting, multiplying and even dividing decimals which was very tricky at first. But after lots of practise, we think we’ve got the hang of it! We have been applying our knowledge of money across the curriculum by planning a trip to Rio as our homework task. Mr. Logan challenged us to calculate the total cost for him to travel to Rio for a week next summer, providing details of accommodation and interesting places to visit whilst there.

We have been reading Grandpa’s Great Escape by David Walliams as our class novel and focused on metalinguistics skills in reading on Tuesday. Whilst reading, we identified ambitious adjectives in the story and found synonyms and antonyms for these words using a thesaurus. Who would have known that similar words for elderly could be crinkly, wrinkly and senile! In writing we edited the first drafts of our Rio Olympics newspaper articles and typed up final drafts of these on the Netbooks. It was great to relive the moments when Murray, Farah and Kenny won gold medals for Team GB and tied in nicely with our IDL theme, Brazil.

Speaking of Brazil, we are now 2 weeks into our 6 week block of futsal (a South American variation of football) on a Wednesday. With our specialist coach Neil, we have been transferring what we have learnt with Mr. Logan in football to develop our futsal skills. Developed in Uruguay, futsals are slightly smaller and heavier than a size 5 football and encourage close control, passing and individual creativity. This week, we also split into groups to prepare presentations, acting as both the Scottish and Brazilian tourism boards. We then presented to the class, comparing and contrasting the two countries, in an attempt to persuade people to visit each country. You can see the Brazilian fact files that we created on our IDL wall in class, come and have a look! Did you know, for example, that a rhino once ran in a city council election in Brazil?

Mr. Logan may not be with us next week as his baby is due on Monday 10th October, however, we’ll be back and raring to go for another fun-filled week! Remember, parents’ evenings are on Wednesday and Thursday and the P7 House Leaders and Captains will be given duties each night.

Thanks for reading.

P7b and Mr. L