Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

Good Morning Primary 3!

I hope everyone is enjoying their snow days! Below is a list of ideas/activities that you can do to help continue your learning while we are not in class.

• Build a snowman/igloo. Please feel free to send any pictures of your snow creations through class dojo. We can then share and discuss them in class when we get back.
• Search for different animal footprints in the snow and try and guess which animal they belong to.
• Happy World Book Day!! We were going to discuss our favourite books in class today. Why don’t you write your own book review or design a new front cover for your book.
• We have been learning how to divide by 2, 3, 4 and 5 this week so ask someone to write you some division sums and have a go at answering them.
• Access Sumdog and play a few games.
• Next week we will be researching and developing our understanding of Fairtrade so if you have access to the internet you could do your own research to help us with our learning in class.

Any learning/activities you do at home please send through class dojo. I would love to see any pictures!

Have a fun day in the snow and remember to wrap up warm!! Hopefully see you all tomorrow.

Mrs McVay

This week we have been learning the ‘ea’ sound and our new common words are ‘some’ and ‘come’. We wrote ‘ea’ words on leaves, practised reading ‘ea’ words playing Roll & Read and playing an ‘ea’ words memory game, wrote ‘ea’ words on our whiteboards, played ‘A Day by the Sea’ on Education City and wrote ‘ea’ words and sentences in our literacy jotters.

For writing this week we made posters for our own flying inventions! We looked at features of a poster and made sure that our posters included a title, a picture and a short sentence. We also tried to make our posters colourful.

In Numeracy & Maths we have been learning to order numbers to 20 and find numbers one more/one less with numbers to 20. We played ordering games on the laptops and smartboard, ordered our number pebbles from largest to smallest, played larger/smaller number games with dominoes, found numbers one more/one less than and worked with a partner to cut out numbers to 20 and put them in the correct order. Next we will be looking at finding two more/two less  than with numbers to 20.

We hope that everyone is enjoying the snow and keeping safe and warm.

P1A and Miss Harrison xxx

Here are some suggested activities for the children to do if the weather continues:

• Practise reading, saying & writing the ‘ea’ sound. Have a go at writing ‘ea’ words such as ‘read’, ‘seat’, ‘mean’ and ‘cheap’.

• Although we haven’t started learning the ‘igh’ sound in class, practise reading, saying & writing the ‘igh’ sound. Have a go at writing ‘igh’ words such as ‘light’, ‘night’ and ‘fright’.

• Practise reading common words in the sounds/words tubs. Have a go at writing the common words.

• Read your reading book. Draw a comic strip of the beginning, middle and end of your story.

• Practise ordering numbers to 20 and beyond. If you google ‘Topmarks’ and then type in ‘Caterpillar Ordering’ then you will find an online ordering game.

• Practise finding numbers one more/one less than with numbers to 20. You could use a number line for support. Although we haven’t started this in class, you could find numbers two more/two less than with numbers to 20.

• We will be learning about money after Easter so you could practise identifying coins to £2.

• Make a poster about a method of transport and try to include a title, picture and short sentence. Can you make your poster colourful?

• With adult help, use the internet to research about a method of transport. Put in key words to find information. You could also look for images of transport from the past