Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

What a wacky start to our week. Things were just not how they should of been….socks on rulers, posters upside down, fake clock on the wall, even Mrs Matos was slightly wacky. Our day was inspired by the Dr Suess book, Wacky Wednesday. The children were encouraged to write a journal entry about their wacky day. This was linked to our class novel Kensuke’s Kingdom, and how Michael kept  journal entries while sailing around the world.

The children have made fantastic silhouettes of Michael  and Stella (characters from our class novel), the children put in a lot of effort and they look amazing.

Using various materials the children created their own islander for their island.

In numeracy we have been continuing with number talks. The children have enjoyed using strings to help them solve more complex problems. We have also been concentrating on how to write and say numbers up to 100 000.

 

It has been a busy week, who knows what next week will have in store!!

We have had a fun filled week!

In Literacy we have been exploring the text, Kensuke’s Kingdom. We wrote ‘Messages in a Bottle’ and considered what important information we would need to put in our very own message if we were stranded on a desert Island. Callum visualised what Kensuke looked like and created a large version of his drawing for our wall display. We learned the importance of an effective story opener and played a game to see if we recognised familiar stories by their story openers- we were fantastic at this!

In Maths, we have been learning how to write number names for large numbers. We helped each other if we found it tricky and played lots of games on the netbooks to help us understand place value. We had good fun playing a place value game at home for homework.

We considered how we could use colour effectively to create a piece of art for Kensuke’s Kingdom with a sunset in the background, these were brilliant! Mrs McCartney thinks that we have lots of budding artists in P5A!We made large versions of the main characters in the story for our wall display- our favourite is Stella, the dog!

We designed our very own Islander that would live on our Island. We used a variety of material to do this task and had to consider gender, age, appearance and the use of similes to describe our interesting character.

Mrs McCartney was very impressed with our use of persuasive language when we delivered our Powerpoint presentations, we were certainly confident individuals!

Looking forward to our work for our ‘Pack for a Purpose’ project for Africa next week.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

P5A and Mrs McCartney x

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Primary 4B we have been learning about growth mindset. We have been challenging ourselves not to give up when we find things difficult and to ask for help.

In numeracy we have been learning the 3 and 4 times tables. We have been learning how to measure in centimetres. In Big Maths we have been challenging ourselves to beat our scores. We have been learning about maps and using a compass and we made maps of our local area. We learned how to do surveys and made a survey of Springfield’s favourite weather. We displayed the information on bar graphs.

In literacy we have been learning how to open a story, create settings and use punctuation. We have learned how to use paragraphs, use speech marks and question marks. We have used the BFG as a stimulus and have been writing stories and reading a play based on the BFG.

In French we have been learning to count to 30. We learned to say the days, months, colours and the French alphabet. We can now say French foods and we practised with fun activities with P4A including shopping and money. We also made French postcards.

In learning across the curriculum we have been learning about the BFG and Roahl Dahl stories. We have also been learning about the animals, landmarks and food in Australia and compared the weather to Scotland. We have been learning characterisation, acting and presentation skills through drama and art. In music we have been learning to play the Ukelele.

 

In health and wellbeing we have been learning to be good friends. We have been walking a mile most days. In PE we have been learning movement skills through gymnastics, football, basketball and we have played games to learn to work well together as a team. We have also been learning how to meditate so we are healthy body and mind!

This week in P4a we have been learning how to create bar graphs from the data we collected last week, all about our favourite weather. The graphs are now on display in our classroom. We also answered questions  about the information we collected.

We looked at compass points and worked out which direction north is in our classroom (it is towards the windows!) We used an atlas to find different places in the world using the index page, coordinates and grid references. We played games using North, South, East and West but in French (please ask us what these words are).

In French we learned about colours and then used this knowledge to play corners games during PE. We also had to move in a variety of ways, using different parts of our bodies- the best one was when we all had to be French Beans 🙂

In Big Writing we wrote our imaginative stories using our planning from last week. Then we peer and self assessed these using two stars and a wish.

Finally, giants have started to appear in our classroom- not sure how that has happened as we are supposed to be a giant free zone! If you happen to work out how they are getting in please let us know.

See you all at parents night next week- assuming the giants don’t eat us all first.

P4a and Mrs Newton

This week we have been doing lots of fun things in class, here are some of the things which we have enjoyed learning about:

Euan and Jessica – I enjoyed counting to 1000 in maths

Ruari and Rebecca – I enjoyed helping others in maths

James – I enjoyed counting one before/after numbers within 1000

Ava, Madeleine, Michael, Scott, Finlay and Hannah – I enjoyed science this week when we were researching about different animals from Scotland and Australia

Emma, Emma, Kristin, Mia, Cormac, Jemima, Scott, Ava, Hannah, Michael, Hollie, Eilidh, FInlay, Alexander, James, Lauren, Sean, Ben and Olivia – I enjoyed designing our islands for our junk modelling

Aston – I enjoyed circle time with Mrs Stewart

 

 

P1A have been learning all about Fairytales and are helping the friendly dragon to rebuild Fairyland. We used lots of paint and sponges to make bricks for our castle and we got a little messy! Today we added some flags and windows. We think that the dragon will love our castle!