St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Primary 4 have been very busy over the last few weeks.

We enjoyed building bridges in STEM and testing to see how strong they were.

We have been applying our skills in PE to play different ball games like netball.

In maths we continued to learn about shapes and identified the names of 3D shapes and looked at their properties.

As part of maths week this week, we enjoyed playing sumdog, applying our knowledge and skills and doing challenges. Yesterday we worked in teams to complete different problem solving challenges to unlock the problem solving box. It was tricky but we enjoyed the challenge!

It has been another busy week in Primary 1! Look at how much fun we had learning new skills with the Problem Solving Company at maths week. Here we are working as a team to solve different problems.

We covered the big triangle with little triangles

We are trying to make a square with these shapes.

We did it, we made a square with the shapes.

We also, managed to make a square with the shapes.

Can we fit the hexagons around the centre one so that the colours match?

Everyone worked together to solve the problem.

Team work helped solve this problem.

Using trapeziums and triangles to cover the shape.

Also this week, our buddies came down to read with us on Thursday afternoon. It was really nice to have them back from Kilbowie.

Reading for enjoyment with our budddies.

Sharing one of our favourite books with our buddies.

When we are learning to write a story, we need to learn to say what we want to write. Here we are making up stories using the story stones. We have some interesting sentence openers and some good joining words too.

Using our openers and connectives to make up stories .

After reading our autumn stories this week, we wrote our own poems.

Another autumn poem.

Look at us! Aren’t we very clever to have painted these wonderful pictures of ourselves!

Look at these amazing P1 paintings. Aren’t we amazing!

A wonderful painting of a happy P1.

Look at the detail in his painting.

A beautiful jumper pattern on this painting.

How cheery is this P1!

This week we have had great fun celebrating Maths Week. We have been busy on Sumdog and doing active tasks in class. Today we were joined by The Problem Solving Company and had a great afternoon problem solving through fun activities!

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We had a lovely time last week carrying out more topic work. We have started reading ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark” and we have created some fabulous pieces of writing based on the book. We have displayed our work for everyone to see.

We also made the most of the sunshine last week and had great fun doing our P.E. outside. 

Here we are, taking part in Number Talks! We are using the sign to let the teacher know we have an answer for the problem. this is when we explore numbers and talk through our strategies for solving the number problems.

We know what capital letters match to the small sounds. We are learning to use these sounds in our reading and writing and we are learning to use the capital letters at the start of a sentence.

Look at how clever we are – we an make words with the sounds that we know. We can sound them out, blend them and read them.

Everyone has their House badge on and this lets everyone in the school know which house we belong to. We can win points when we work hard and behave well. Then, the winning house gets an extra play on Friday.

In maths, we are learning to put out pairs patterns for numbers up to 10. When we do this, we can see which numbers are odd and which are even. It also helps us recognise the numbers very quickly.

You can see, that we are also using money to put out amounts. Sometimes we use 1p and sometimes we use £1 coins.

Look at these wonderful line drawings of us! These will be added to our busy street wall display. Can you spot who is who???

Would you like to live in a house like this? Everyone designed a house for our Busy Street. We used different materials and they all look amazing!

Lots of learning going on in Primary 1 again this week. Let’s see what we learn next week.

On Friday, we had another successful Stay and Read session with our parents and carers.

In the computer room, we are all learning to log into the computers by ourselves. We are getting quite good at it already. Also, we are learning to use the mouse and move the cursor around the screen to point to the right things on the desktop. Splosh is a useful way for us to improve our mouse skills.

In PE on Friday’s we are taking part in some Active Health activiteis and work our way around some circuits to keep fit and learn new skills.

Look out for our new art on the walls soon! Here we are exploring colour and learning to sue the paintbrush carefully to make different shapes for our picture….what will it be?

We had some prayer time in the Oratory this wee again. It is a quiet and peaceful place to pray as a class. Everyone loves the Oratory.

Let’s hope you enjoyed reading about some of the things we have been doing this week. What will our blog bring next week…..