Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

We have had a fun and busy week in P3A. On Tuesday afternoon, we went to the PTA Halloween Disco. Aren’t we a scary bunch?!

In music with Mrs Bain, we chose appropriate instruments to create atmospheric sounds to tell the story of The Witch’s Magic Potion. We followed conducting signals to control the volume. In fact we even learned Italian because we now know about crescendo and diminuendo!

In reading this week, we have been looking at giving a personal response to a text. We started by looking at pictures of different items and used emotion cards to show whether we liked, disliked, loved or hated the items in the pictures. Next we played a board game called ‘Likes and Dislikes’ where we selected a topic and moved round the board expressing our likes and dislikes. Finally, Miss Harrison read us a story called ‘Castle Adventure’ and we discussed what we liked and disliked about the story with our learning partners, giving reasons for our answers. Individually, we wrote what we liked and disliked about Castle Adventure, giving reasons why.

In writing this week we have been looking at writing letters. We wrote letters to children in a school in Australia! We used our planning time to write a paragraph about ourselves and to write down questions that we wanted to ask the children in Australia. In our writing lesson, we looked at features of a letter and we used our planning sheets to write our letters to our Australian pen pals. We ensured that we included an address, a greeting and a closing farewell. We worked really hard with our letters and we are looking forward to receiving our replies!

In Numeracy and Maths this week, we have been continuing to look at different strategies to help us with addition. We have been playing different ICT games to revise our number bonds to 20 and to practise adding two 2-digit numbers. We have been using our number bonds to 10 to help us to add a single digit to any 2-digit number. For example, we have been using addition facts such as 5+4=9 to solve 85+4. Miss Harrison also showed some of us how to partition 2-digit and 3-digit numbers and then re-combine the answers to solve different addition problems. We have also been using 100 Squares, Numicon and ten frames to help us with our addition.

This week we have been continuing to learn how to use technologies to share information with others. We worked in our groups to finish creating our PowerPoints on Australian landmarks and we were able to successfully add text, images and animations. Next week we will share our presentations with the rest of the class and we will learn lots of facts about The Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock and Fremantle Prison!

Thank you for reading our blog post,

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

 

 

 

P1 really enjoyed their Halloween themes this week. Mrs Gordon made a Halloween tray to explore. We all enjoyed making witch craft and potions . This helped us learn about colour mixing. We even wrote a spooky sentence using one of our new tricky words “The red bat”. Our Halloween party on Tuesday was a lot of fun and T won the best girl costume with her fabulous spiky costume.

In numeracy we continued to work on addition, this week we added in the symbols + and = and started to write some number sentences, eg 2+1=3. We also did some work on time and focused on days of the week. We have a few songs to help us and will need lots of practice to remember which day comes where….

In literacy we learned 2 more sounds “u” and “b”, we also started our common or tricky words, we learned all about I, the and to. We need to practice these a lot so we can read them and remember how to write them.

In HWB we thought about what makes a good friend and made our own potion with ingredients like kindess, respect etc …..they are a lot like our values….

In French we added rose (pink) and violet (purple) to our colour repertoire, and can now sing a rainbow (literally) in French.

In PE we were working on balance, we learnt that it is quite tricky to balance a beanbag and bounce a ball when you are doing a balance.

Happy weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a

Literacy

We liked a a book review, we learnt to identify nouns and adjectives in a sentence.  We also learnt to proofread and correct our peer’s written work.

We listened to Chapter 1 and 2 of our book study and took notes of the important events.

We learnt about the history of Halloween- AL

Numeracy

We were doing 2 digit and 3 digit addition using a number line.  We also played a math game to practice our partitioning strategy ( in addition).

” I learnt to properly use a number line” CM.

French

We learnt the names of some fruit in French.  We played a  guessing game and used the phrase mon fruit préféré est… (my favorite fruit is)

Science

We looked at skeletons and parts of the body.

PE

We learnt to do basketball with Mrs. Reid.

 

 

We have had an exciting week this week with the Halloween Disco and our special Halloween day.   In Phonics we have been learning the ‘b’ and ‘u’ sounds and in Numeracy we have worked on addition. We learnt all about the symbols we use in sums eg. +  and =.

On Tuesday afternoon we were very excited as we got to dress up in our fabulous costumes and went to the hall with the rest of the infant department for our party. We danced, played games and enjoyed our snacks too. A huge thank you to the PTA for organising this for us.

On Wednesday we had a Halloween day and all of our activities had a spooky theme. We had green slime to write in, we made potions, we wrote spells and we read spooky stories. In PE we were moving around the hall like zombies, witches and monsters. We were working with a partner on our ball skills and practised rolling the ball accurately.

 

Reminders:

• The Primary 3 classes are organising the shoebox appeal this year so if anyone has any small donations to put in the boxes or a finished box to help them please send them in next week.
• Next week is a revision week for phonics so please practise the sounds we have learnt. No new sounds will be sent home. We will also be learning about vowels.

Hoping you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs McAulay and P1B x