Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

This week we had a revision week! We were practising all of the sounds we have learnt so far and doing lots of word building with these sounds. We played an initial sound game and had a box full of different items. When the music stopped, we had to pull out an object and identify the initial sound. We worked in pairs to play with the phonics dice and jigsaws. We played a memory game to match up our sounds and did lots of sensory activities to practise forming out letters. We had a graffiti wall this week and loved using all of the pens to try some writing. We also played teachers and had to use the phonics fans to test our friend. Some of the children have started to learn how to write short phrases. We learnt how to use finger spaces between our words and how to sit our letters on the line.

In Numeracy we were developing lots of different skills with our numbers to 10 and then 20. We were counting backwards, sequencing and ordering.  We played lots of games to recognise our numbers to 20. We had to deliver the letters to the correct doors and played number bingo. On Wednesday we had an introduction to 3D shape and started to learn some of the names of the different shapes. We learnt the difference between 2D and 3D shapes and did lots of sorting activities.

In PE this week we decided to have some time to relax as we are all feeling very tired! We did some cosmic yoga to the story of the hungry caterpillar. We talked about how important it is to stretch our muscles and how we can use this to keep calm.

In HWB we read a story called ‘Hands are not for Hitting’. We talked about the message in the story and linked this to our school values. Mrs McAulay gave us lots of different scenarios and we had to come up with ideas of what we could do instead of using unkind hands. We then drew around our hands and came up with lots of ideas of how our hands can help us in a positive way!

Our tuff tray this week was the story of the 3 little pigs. We had some puppets and story stones to retell the story. We also had a challenge to build a house for the pigs. We had some straw, bricks and sticks. We talked about how the bricks are stronger and more sturdy.

Thank you to Mrs Philpot for helping us paint our Fairyland castle. We are hoping to have this up for the dragon next week.

Hoping you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McAulay and P1b x

Numeracy

We revised on symmetry in 2D shapes as well as place value.

We were learning to order and compare numbers.  We also used greater/ lesser than symbol to compare numbers.

Literacy

We were learning to identify verbs in a sentence, we were making inferences (while  reading) and we learnt to create a fact file about Philippines.

IDL and ICT

We used our netbook time to research about Scotland landscape, food and climate.

RME

We were learning about what it means to be a Christian and what Christianity means.

HWB

For PE, we had Quiditch in addition to badminton our badminton practice.

We also learnt about what friendships require in order to maintain  it.

We have had a busy 8 days in P3A!

Last week we were the peg challenge winners again and we were also Class of the Week! Miss Harrison was extremely proud of us and we are going to continue to work hard to ensure that we win them again!

Last week we created newspaper reports on James and the Giant Peach. We were writing reports about when the peach landed on the Empire State Building! Firstly, we looked at features of a newspaper report and we created our own interesting headlines! Then we looked at the key facts and wrote these down on our planning sheets. We also used our planning sheets to take notes on the introduction, main story and conclusion. Afterwards we created our first copy of our newspaper reports in our jotters. We had to make sure that we used capital letters and full stops, put the events in the correct sequence and included who, what, when and where. Miss Harrison looked at all of our reports and checked our spelling. Finally we created final copies of our reports and made sure that our writing was neat and that we included a picture. Our newspaper reports are absolutely fantastic and we have displayed them inside and outside of our classroom.

This week we have been continuing to look at different reading skills. We have already looked at summarising and question writing and this week, we looked at illustrating. We looked the job of an illustrator and looked at some examples of famous illustrators and their work. Miss Harrison read us the last two chapters of James and the Giant Peach and we had to use our visualising skills and information from the text to create illustrations for those chapters. On Tuesday, we used our summarising and illustrating skills to create alternative blurbs and front covers for James and the Giant Peach. When we were writing our blurbs, we worked hard to summarise the story and not give too much away to the reader. We also tried to use interesting words. We definitely have authors and illustrators in the making!

This week it was European Day of Languages.  On Friday, we learned different colours in French. We listened to a song about French colours, we played some different games on the Promethean Board and we played a French colours game in our classroom. Miss Harrison will be using different French words and phrases that we learn throughout the week to help us to develop our language.

Over the last fortnight, we have continued to look at symmetry. Last week we reflected shapes and pictures in mirror lines to make them symmetrical. We also created our own symmetrical patterns. This week we concluded our learning on symmetry and we used our knowledge of lines of symmetry to create our own symmetrical designs on squared paper. We had to check if our designs were symmetrical by comparing both halves to check if they were a reflection of each other.

This week we have been learning to find 1 and 2 more or less than and 100 more or less than with numbers to 1000. We have also been learning to count on in twos and threes. When we were revising odd and even numbers, we played a game called ‘Popcorn’. Miss Harrison called out different numbers and if the number was even, we had to ‘pop’ up and if the number was odd then we had to ‘pop’ down!

On Thursday after break we arrived back into our classroom to discover boarding passes to Australia on our seats! Miss Harrison had a suitcase filled with sun cream, a sun hat, sunglasses, a story book called ‘What’s in Your Pocket?’, a weather map of Australia and photographs of Ayres Rock, Sydney Opera House, coral, kangaroos, koala bears, the Australian flag and Australian rugby players.  We discussed what we already knew about Australia and then we wrote down what we want to learn. We are going to be exploring the natural environment of Australia and by comparing the weather in Scotland and Australia, looking at how climate affects living things.

This week we had a very special party in P3A. A member of our class has been undergoing treatment for the last two years and this week, it was the end of her treatment. We are all very proud of how brave, strong and resilient she is and we wanted to celebrate! Miss Harrison also wanted to celebrate how kind, supportive and understanding we are in P3A. We ate lots of party food, listened and danced to music and had lots of fun!

Thank you very much for reading our blog post.

We hope that you have a lovely weekend,

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

Our Science this week included an investigation into weight. We decided that the variable in our fair test would be the weight of the ball. We are looking forward to exploring this further.

In maths we have been formally recording addition, along with doubling numbers.

In writing we wrote a description of our alien for our alien stories.

In music we have explored some Indian music known as ravi shankar.

In PE, Kieran gave us a taster session for Quidditch and some of us have joined the after school club for this. We also started to look at the skills involved in playing hockey.

Our Assembly this week celebrated Jessie’s retirement and European Day of Languages.

Have a lovely weekend

Primary 5