St Bartholomew's Class Blog

We have moved on from our learning about the Moon this week and our ‘Puffy Moons’ display is now complete!

This week in P4, there has been a big focus on working co-operatively in small groups. We have been learning about the planets of the Solar System, working together to deepen our knowledge. First, we took notes as we watched and listened to some videos about the the planets…

Then, we worked in small groups to add our notes to a group visualiser…

We then had ten minutes to prepare a short group presentation about the Solar System. We had to think about eye contact, projecting our voices and making our presentation interesting. Some of us included short dramas in our presentation and Mrs McLean was really impressed…

The next day, we had to apply what we had learned about the Solar System to create a group model showing the order of the planets from the Sun. We were give a set amount of materials and we had to problem solve in order to create our models…

We now have to observe what the planets look like from space in order to add detail to our models. We started adding detail to our mini-Earths using shaving foam (it has many uses!) and paint…

We have been working co-operatively in Maths too. We are learning about Data Handling and how to interpret and create Pictograms with keys. We decided to create a class pictogram…

We also carried out a class survey called ‘Which Planet would you most like to visit?’ and will be creating our own Pictograms to display our results. We have been trying hard to talk about our Maths learning too this week. Here are two brave children who took the ‘1 minute plenary challenge’…

Another hard working week in P4. Well done boys and girls!

We have just finished week 2 of our jewellery making club and the children are already impressing me! Beautiful pearl link bracelets made today. Someone is going to be delighted this Christmas!

This week we have been learning more fascinating facts about the Moon during our study of different non-fiction texts. We have been learning how to take clear, concise notes as we watch and listen…

We have also been learning about the features of non-fiction texts in our co-operative learning groups to help us write our own wonderful non-chronological reports…

We watched a video and did some reading about the Moon Landings. We found out that if you drop a feather and hammer on the Moon at the same time, they both hit the ground at the same time! This is because of a force called gravity. We decided to test the gravity on Planet Earth…

We talked about the things that we had to keep the same in order to make sure that our experiments were fair. These were the height (that the balls were dropped from) and the timing (of the balls being dropped). After that we wrote down our hypotheses and finally conducted our fair tests, recording our results on a table as we went. We found that, if the test was fair, the size and weight of the ball made no difference! All of the balls hit the ground at the same time. That’s gravity for you!

In maths we have been learning about a new fraction called hundredths. Here we are playing a class game…

And these super boys have been learning how to order numbers on a number line…

Finally, today we were learning some Scottish songs in music. We decided that we needed to add more ‘Scottishness’ to the classroom. This pair were more than happy to help out…

Pretty!

Over the past few weeks we have been super busy! We did some drama and had to use our facial expressions and bOkies to show how we would be feeling carrying a large and heavy sack of potatoes!!! We got really into it.

During maths time we have been exploring money. We replaced our numbers with coins and notes on our washing line. We have been counting in 1p’s and buying things from Miss Duffy’s shop!

The rights respecting schools pupil voice group asked us to complete a task sorting items into things we need and things we want. Some were easy to sort and some caused a bit of discussion.

Things we need included clean water, medicine and clothes. Things we want included toys, crisps and coloured pens.

Primary 5/6 had lots of fun today learning facial features in Spanish. This is our Spanish version of heads, shoulders, knees and toes!