St Bartholomew's Class Blog

This week in primary 1 we learned two new sounds, ‘h’ and ‘w’. Some of us found it tricky to write ‘h’ but with lots of practice we are now amazing at it! Bridget pointed out that it looks just like the sound ‘n’ except taller! We choose our new sounds every week from our crocodile phoneme bin!

What sound will it be?!

Practicing writing

Amazing letters!

During maths time we were learning about symmetry with Mrs Wilson! We painted one half of our paper with a pattern then we folded it in half to create a symmetrical pattern! Check out the amazing results.

They’re the same on both sides!

Proud to show off our hard work

Symmetry

Working together as a group

Since we are super smart in primary 1 we also learned about the days of the week and the months of the year in maths. For the days of the week we learned a song to help us remember the order of them. We also know that when we get to the end of a week we just start a new one!

    The days of the week keep repeating

A silent walk to find the matching months!

A wonderful week for us! Miss Duffy is very proud as always.

Today Mrs McLean was treated once again to some outstanding homework projects and presentations. Here are today’s superstars…

We were a super audience again!

Mr Young heard about our wonderful work and stopped by too. Can you spot him?

We were treated to some free ICT time in the afternoon…

And a special treat for all our hard work. Exploring each other’s projects and eating cake!

Last week we made fruit salad and when we talked about our learning with Mrs Carlin at the end of the week we asked if we could make more healthy snacks with fruit. So this week Mrs Carlin showed us a great espresso module that guided us through the process of making fruit kebabs.  One morning this week we were all given 20p to spend in the class Greengrocer shop. P.1 had all 1p coins and P.2 had a mix of coins. Mrs Ruddy came and played the part of the shopkeeper !

I counted out my money and paid Mrs Ruddy.

I chose three bags of fruit and paid the shopkeeper. I even had change!

Then we got organised to make our fruit kebabs. We worked in cooperative groups and everyone had a job to do. Here is a quick snapshot…….

I make sure I don’t touch the sharp point on the kebab stick.

I’ thinking of a pattern while I design and make my fruit kebab.

My cooperative group job is photographer so I’ ll take photos of the finished kebabs for my group.

I’ve washed my hands, tied my hair back and made sure my work area is clean.

We invited Mr Young to our class and he came to see how we got on making fruit kebabs.

Mr Young spent some time talking to us about creating our healthy snacks . Everyone helped each other as we worked as a cooperative team.

Everyone helped each other as we created our healthy snacks.

Also this week as part of our St Andrew’s experiences, we started to learn some Scottish Country Dancing…..it was great fun but very tiring.

Here’s what we’ve been doing in literacy this week……

Here’ s what we have been doing in numeracy this week…..

Over the last couple of week primary 5/6 have been very busy. Here’s a little sample of all the things we’ve been up to.

In maths we’ve been looking at measure. Here’s a little selection of photos that show what we’ve covered so far.

We developed our skills of drawing and measuring lines to make a shape picture and challenged our partners to measure accurately.

We had to read scale to weigh different objects. We found reading the scale difficult so we used the interactive games on the smart board to help us. We also tried out hand at measuring the capacity of different shapes and sizes of containers.

Shape Problem Solving

We have been working with 3D and 2D shapes this week.

We were set a challenge of making a box for our square based pyramid. We worked in groups to figure out how to solve the problem and make the box. Then we had to present it to the class sharing the things we found easy and difficult. We identified how to improve our designs

Writing Music

We have been working as composers in music. We have worked together to write a short tune and then we were given the chance to practice it to hear what it sounded like.  We then had to perform it for the class. We found it difficult to play together so we had to practice a lot before the performance.

We are also working hard on learning our Scottish Song for our St Andrew’s Day assembly. Then its Christmas and our Christmas songs are really great.