Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

Literacy: Week three and the summer holidays are beginning to become a distant memory. We had some time during literacy to reflect on our summer holiday. We had the opportunity to write a recount of our holiday. Before writing our recount, we discussed what important elements were needed, we discussed that our recount will be written in the first person, it will be in the past tense and most importantly we needed to remember to use interesting adjectives to describe our holiday. Mrs. Matos has really enjoyed reading our recounts, and through our feedback, we are going to concentrate on   interesting Openers, Connectives and the use of a variety of punctuation in our  future writing. Using a picture stimulus we got our creative juices flowing. Using the stimulus we wrote a creative story based on the picture which was taken in Brazil. Again it was important to use a range of interesting vocabulary that would keep our readers engaged. We definitely have some very creative writers in P7 and we are looking forward to seeing how everyone’s writing will progress throughout the year.

Numeracy: We have taken some time to focus on our number facts this week. We have recapped a little on place value and reading numbers up to 100 000. We have been practicing our number bonds, and together using all of this knowledge we practiced solving  subtraction and addition problems using the formal written methods. Next week we will be exploring the world of multiplication, please remember to practice your timetables daily, the more we practice the easier it becomes to recall them quickly and accurately.  It is Maths week next week, please remember to log onto Sumdog to take part in the competition.

PE: We have continued this week learning a range of different ball skills that we can use during a game of basketball.

IDL: Using the netbooks and class atlas we located Brazil on a map. We began to look at the geography of Brazil, the neighbouring countries and the cities in Brazil that we will be exploring a little later. To show our understanding, we drew our own map of Brazil, and labeled the map with its cities and neighbouring countries.

1+2: Spanish with Mrs. Matos we have been learning the Spanish Alphabet, we have been singing songs to help us to remember the alphabet better. We have also been learning to spell a range of different names, while our partners spell the names in Spanish.  French with Mrs. Gordon we have been playing a range of different games to continue to practice and use some of the vocabulary that we already know.

HWB: This week we discussed our school values, and what they meant to us. We discussed the importance and why we have values in our school. We created our own values posters, and wrote our own definitions for each value. Keep your eyes open as some posters will be displayed in our classroom.

P7b and Mrs.Matos

Hi everyone,

This week we did badminton for P.E. and then we learned to round numbers to the nearest 10 and 100 and we picked our topic- Philippines.

For literacy were writing a setting for a story.

Written by RP

Focus for each curriculum area are as follows;

• HWB- being resilient and having a growth mindset.  Children have been learning about the importance of “making mistakes” as part of individual person’s learning journey.
• Literacy- spelling words with -ass, -u-e and ch.  Children also learnt to peer assess written work and up level their own text.
• Reading- children have been learning to read between the lines/ making inference.
• RME- we discussed what  Christianity means as a belief system.
• ICT-  we used the world wide web as a tool to search for historical people from Linlithgow.
• Art- Children are currently working on creating a poster for the opening of the new museum here in Linlithgow.  The P4s are going to send their entries for the “Visiting the Museum” poster making competition.
• Numeracy- we focused on rounding numbers to the nearest 10 or 100, symmetry in shapes as well as identifying the line(s) of symmetry in various shapes.
• Mental math focus- adding 2 digit  and 1 digit number

Hope you have lovely weekend everyone!

We have had another fantastic week in P3A and we were delighted to find out today that we were the winners of the Peg Challenge once again!

In Numeracy and Mathematics this week, we have been continuing to look at place value. We explored how to put numbers into a place value chart and we used our knowledge of place value to order whole numbers. This week we also started learning about symmetry. We revised what we already knew about symmetry by looking at symmetrical pictures. Then we looked at lines of symmetry and using a mirror to find lines of symmetry. We looked at different shapes and used our mirrors to check whether or not they had lines of symmetry and we then drew the lines of symmetry on a variety of shapes and pictures. We also played some symmetry games on our Promethean board.

On Monday we looked at words with different spelling patterns. We practised our spelling words by completing lots of different active tasks such as rainbow words, spelling flowers, using letter magnets and creating a wordsearch using our spelling words. On Wednesday we revised our spelling words and we beat Miss Harrison at the spelling game ‘Word Workout’.

This week we continued to work on our punctuation. We played ‘Penguins on Ice’ and investigated whether each sentence needed a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark. We looked at when we use exclamation marks and then we corrected sentences by adding capital letters and exclamation marks.

This week we have been learning to summarise. On Monday, we looked at the role of a summariser and we found out that they write a short version of a story and that they only include the main points. In groups, we looked at an extract from Goldilocks and the Three Bears and we found the who, what, where, when and why for the text. Afterwards, Miss Harrison read us a chapter from James and the Giant Peach and we were able to use what we learned about summarising to write a short summary about the chapter.

We also used our summarising skills this week to write a summary about the tale of Peter Rabbit for Miss Baillie’s display in the infant area. We worked really hard with our writing and our presentation. In Art & Design this week, we looked at the visual elements; colour, shape, line and texture. We created Peter Rabbit drawings for Miss Baillie’s display. We looked at the shapes of different flowers and used oil pastels to create a colourful background. Then we used line to create a fur-like texture on our Peter Rabbits and cut them out and glued them onto our background. It created a really nice contrast and we think that our drawings look fantastic on the display!

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

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

P1a have had a very busy week full of learning and fun.

Literacy

In phonics this week we have learnt 2 new sounds “p” and “n”.  We played lots of games with our sounds and made the letters out of flour, sand, newspaper, popcorn and pasta…We also learned how to read a book from left to right, and what words and letters look like. We even learnt that a full stop is there to make us stop and pause when we read. Next week will will get our first reading book home and Mrs Gordon showed us the characters we will meet….Kipper, Biff, Chip and Floppy. We are very excited…

Numeracy

This week our focus was on 3, 4 and 5. These were quite tricky to write, especially the number 5, so we need lots of practice at home too. We sang the lovely “5 little ducks song” and are getting better at counting forwards and backwards. We also did some more work on 2D shape. Have a look at us making a circle, square, rectangle and triangle from people! We also then went outdoors and made those shapes with sticks, stones and leaves that we found in the outdoor classroom.

IDL/Fairyland

Our first topic was launched this week when a sad dragon sent us a letter telling us his castle had been destroyed and no one was believing in fairyland anymore. The dragon needs us to read more fairy tales and help them rebuild fairyland. We have already built a beanstalk for Jack and we will be busy doing more work next week….If anyone has any large bits of cardboard to help us make a castle we would be very grateful.

French

In French this week with Camembear we learnt about “ca va?” how are you. We were able to reply “ca va bien”, “comme ci comme ca” or “ca vas mal”. We also remembered how to count to 5.

HWB

In Health and Well being we worked on another our our school values – respect. We learnt about respecting others and belongings and also respecting ourselves. We also started to learn about the 5 point scale.  Every day we will move our photo on the scale depending on how we are feeling. This lets Mrs Gordon see any children who are upset or worried about anything. We talked about different scenarios like going to the dining hall, coming to school etc and about how everyone is different. For some people those things can make them nervous and for others not, it is ok to be nervous about things and to share those feelings.

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at meet the teacher on Tuesday.

Mrs Gordon and P1a