St Bartholomew's Class Blog

This week, we have been reading more fairy tales. We enjoyed “The three billy goats gruff.” Also we have been writing about he fairy tales too. We have not had a letter from our friendly dragon this week and we are hoping to get one on Tuesday after the break. You will see that we have been continuing with our growing topic too and have spent time looking at flowers in art and exploring the shapes and colours. We created these beautiful colour wheel flowers for our wall.

We made magic wands to cast spells! We’ve been reading lots of fairy tales.

Finger rosary beads that we made with Mrs Wilson.

Can you guess what we are painting ?

Our finished colour wheel flowers!

Adding the final touches….

Science , Art and Literacy in primary 1! We have been reading lots of Fairy Tales and recently enjoyed “Jack and the Beanstalk”. If you have anything to do with P1, you will know by now that we have a friendly Dragon from Fairy land that comes and visits us regularly, this Dragon also leaves us “D-mail” most mornings! So….last week in our post box, was the story of Jack and the magic beans. The dragon also left us some magic beans to plant and some sunflowers! We are hoping to grow a beanstalk to the clouds.

We have been looking after the seeds so well that most of them have sprouted now. Some are pretty tall!

As well as learning how plants grow, we wanted to paint some sunflowers using the warm and bright colours of the sun. This was great fun and we spent some time researching what the sunflowers might look like when they are fully grown.

Watch this space and we will post a picture of the completed sunflowers soon!

What do you think of our wonderful writing? We are just about ready for Primary 2 and our teacher is super proud of the work we have been doing to improve our writing skills. Wow!!

We are all working rally hard at improving our reading skills and learning to look for information in the books we are reading. Here we are reading a tricky book about Animal Feet, we need to use the contents page to find out about different animals.

At task time, we are writing by ourselves. We use lots of different things to help us and to give us ideas. You can see some of the characters from the Story Bag that we can write about.

In our maths, we are working on measure and are learning to measure the area of different shapes. As well as this we are doing Number Talks – a strategy which helps us talk about out mathematical thinking and explain how we got the answer.

If you walk into our lovely school, you will see the wall displays from each class – here is our term three display when we were exploring different ways to travel.

As part of our PE sessions we are working on improving our coordination and our fine motor skills, this means improving our muscles in our fingers and hands, which helps us with lots of other activities in class including writing neatly.

Last week, we visited the school kitchen and made our healthy fruit kebabs. We prepared and shared these with our Primary 2 and Primary 3 friends in the afternoon. Everyone loved the fruit kebabs and there was not a single piece of healthy food left over at the end of our buffet!

Primary 1 made 90 kebab sticks to share with the P2’s and P3’s!