St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Primary 1/2 used their creative skills once again to make these wonderful snowmen in art. We worked in cooperative groups again for this activity. Each person had an important job to do that would mean our activity went well and everyone tried hard. First we created our background, making it bright and patterned so that our snow men would stand out clearly.

After that, we waited for our backgrounds to dry and the following week we cut out our snowmen shapes. We glued them together and made them more individual by adding different craft materials.

Lee chose a cool shopping bag!

Marysa chose rose buttons.

Malinka chose a bright paper flower.

Aren’t they just wonderful. You can see them displayed on our class board in the man foyer.

It’s our most favourite time of year here in P4 and we’ve been getting right into the festive spirit. First of all, we started writing our Christmas Books last week! For the whole month of December we get to be authors of our very own lovely Christmas books. Two kind P7s showed us their Christmas Books from last year and we loved them…

Then it was down to business! First, we looked at pictures from the book that will be used as the inspiration for our own writing. We made predictions from the pictures…

After that we read the book and we started to look at the features of a book. We decided that we needed to write our own Blurbs. Then, we got cracking with the story. We learned how to open a story by describing the setting using amazing adjectives. Then it was time to begin adding the stories to our books and illustrating them…

As well as that, we worked hard to rehearse for the P4-7 Carol Concert and we were awesome on the day. We looked and sang like angels on stage…

Can you believe we managed to fit in maths on top of all that?? Well we did! We have been working on our number facts to 20 to help up with our strategies for addition and subtraction…

And finally, here are yesterday’s Star Writers…these girls wrote excellent story openers using amazing adjectives, super vocabulary and even exclamation marks and ellipsis! Well done!

In class today we were discussing the rights and responsibilities that we have within the school.

In the activity we were loking at what we felt were important rights and responsibilities in our school today and also looking at what we what our school to look like for our future.

We have been learning all about melody in music. We have been singing lots of songs and then finding out which notes to play for the tune. We now know that there are 8 notes in a scale. When we were using the keyboards we were able to find C on the keboard and were able to find all the notes we needed to play the tune for Do Re Me.

In Primary 1/2 over the past few weeks we have been working towards opening up our own postal service. It is now up and running and we are rushed off our little feet keeping the letters stamped and delivered on time. We had no idea working at the post office was so tiring!

Here are our very own Christmas stamps. If you post a letter in our post box at the hall, we will stamp it and post if free of charge!

Every day we collect, stamp, frank and sort the mail. Then we deliver it to each class.

We are making full use of our postal service and have written our letters to Santa – we are going to post them and hope we get a special reply.

Watch this space for more exciting Postal News from the Sparkly Snowman Post!