Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

What a busy Fitness Week we have had in P1A!

On Monday morning we had a golf session from The Stephen Gallacher Foundation. We learned how to hold the golf club correctly and practised swinging the club to hit the ball. We worked well together in our teams to get the ball into the target. On Tuesday morning we had a football session from Jordan. We played different games to practise our dribbling skills and then we had turns at trying to kick the ball into the net. We really enjoyed our golf and football sessions!

This week we were revising the digraphs ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. We looked for ‘oy’ words with magnifying glasses, made ‘oi’ words with play dough, wrote ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sentences on our whiteboards, played games to revise our digraphs on Education City and practised writing ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ words to match pictures.

For writing this week we looked at writing instructions. Since it was Fitness Week, we focused on Food and Health and we wrote instructions on how to wash our hands. We watched a video about hand washing and we washed our own hands and discussed the main steps. Miss Harrison showed us how to use numbers to order our steps. Our instructions were very clear and easy to follow.

In Numeracy and Mathematics this week we learned subtraction facts for the number 6. We played Subtraction Smash and Subtraction Bowling, made our own subtraction facts for 6 on our whiteboards and played Subtraction Snakes and Ladders. We also completed an activity in our workbooks on subtraction facts for 6.

This week we also started to learn about fractions. We looked at sharing a pizza into halves and quarters and we talked about how the smaller parts had to be equal. We made pizzas with different toppings on each half, used our play dough to make the last half or quarter of cakes, found and coloured different fractions of shapes and played ‘Half Your Cake and Eat It’ on Education City.

As part of Fitness Week, we looked at the main food groups. We learned that the main food groups are Fruit and Vegetables, Carbohydrates, Protein, Milk and Dairy Products and Fats and Sugars. We looked at photographs of each food group and identified foods that belonged in each group. We played ‘Make a balanced plate’ where you had to put the food in the right food group, made our own healthy eating plates and drew pictures of our favourite food in each food group.

On Thursday this week we made smoothies. We had lots of ingredients to pick from such as pineapple, mango, blueberries, bananas, oranges, apples, raspberries and apple and orange juice. We picked the ingredients we wanted in our smoothies and then Miss Harrison blended them together. We got to try our smoothies and we thought that they were delicious!

The highlight of our week was Sports Day. We took part in Potted Sports in the morning and completed activities such as hurdles, javelin throw, space hoppers, football, running, cheerleading and an obstacle course. Then we had class races in the afternoon.  We showed excellent teamwork and we were also kind, resilient and respectful.

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

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂