St Bartholomew's Class Blog

During our RE this week, we are learning more about the life of Jesus. In the past few weeks, we have learned about where Jesus lived as a boy and how he grew into a teacher. Today we heard the story of one of His miracles. After listening to and watching the story of The Loaves and Fish, we made sentences in our coop groups and read and wrote them.

Also this week, we are learning more about words in our Word Aware activities. This week, our word is terrified. We made up sentences about being terrified!

Our spinner helps us remember the word of the week and understand what it means. When we spin the spinner, we can get to do different tasks.

Everyone in the class is getting really smart at using capital letters. Some of the capitals are tricky to remember but we are doing lots of different activities to help us really learn them.

Making and writing words is a big part of our weekly tasks. We use lots of different resources to make words and here you can see us making CVCSpinner words with our Sea of Sounds fish!

In maths we are learning all about money and have realised that it is just like adding. We can use our knowledge of numbers and our numicon shapes to help us understand the values of the coins. We are now working on putting out amounts to 20p and are really pretty skilled at it.

Using numicon, we can makeup our own addiction numbers stories. We can see how many additions we can make in a minute!

Number Talks is part of our daily routine in maths. Here we are talking about what coins we can see and how we see them. When we talk about this, we might talk about the doubles we can add together, we might talk about how it is easy to add 1p as this is just like adding one more, we might also say that it is easy to add 2p as this isn’t the same as jumping on two more numbers. When we talk about numbers, everyone is involved and it helps us think about the strategies we use when using money.

This week we enjoyed writing some persuasive pieces. We debated the positive and negative aspects of wearing a school uniform. Some very interesting points were made!

Rhian said “I think it is certain that school uniforms are a great idea because they can stop bullying.”

Eva said “School uniforms are a good idea because they look very smart indeed!”

P5 are also very excited to announce that sometime in June we will be putting on a small performance, showcasing all of our fantastic musical skills that we have learned from our Kodaly time.

Molly said “we have even prepared some song mashups!”

We really hope you enjoy it when the time comes!

This morning we thoroughly enjoyed learning all about everyone’s art projects. P5 worked so hard to put together some incredible presentations. I was very impressed indeed! : )

An incredible Roman shield and spear was made by this fantastic girl!

Roman weapons at the ready!

Fantastic information all about the colosseum!

Look at what this great girl made! We really had fun with this art project!

P5 loved learning all about why this fantastic boy chose to focus on Roman mosaics for his art project!

Travel and Transport has been our theme for the last few months, learning about travel and transport now and in the past. This has helped us learn all about how transport has changed the way we live. Look at these wonderful sailboats!

Brilliant Boats using mixed media – paint, pastel and tissue paper.

If you come into our class in the morning, you can chose how you want to be greeted! You can choose a hug, a smile, a high five, a thumbs up or a wave! We love to be greeted so warmly in the morning. It means everyone comes in to the class feeling delighted and welcomed.

How would you like to be greeted in the morning?

In P1, we are using a new resource called “Word Aware”. Each week, we will learn new vocabulary that we may not have heard of before and by the end of the week, we will have a greater understanding of the word and be able to use it confidently. This will help our reading and writing skills.

Word Aware Working Word Wall – our word of the week is “astonished”.

Writing is a big priority in our class. Not only are we learning to form the letters correctly, write on the line and keep the letters the correct size, but we are also learning to write sentences on our own. Look at some of our Star Writers!

A super Star Writer – look at the neat handwriting!

Another super Star Writer – capital letters and full stops too.

Star Writers using their sight words to write a little story.

Star Writers using sounding out and blending to help write tricky words.

Here we are using our Word Aware word of the week to check our understanding of what it means and create some sentences using the word.

Word Aware – using our word of the week to make a sentence.

Word Aware – working together to build a sentence with our word of the week.

Word Aware – using our word of the week to make and read a sentence.

What a fantastic couple of weeks we have had! Last week we worked so hard preparing our class assembly. We had lots of fun practising and were so dedicated to learning our lines and all of the words to our songs.

After our performance we all set up our Roman and Celts museum outside our classroom which contained our fabulous art projects! We also enjoyed having some treats and snacks in the class that afternoon with our family and friends!

We really loved learning new and interesting facts about the Ancient Romans and the Celts.

Aimee said “I liked that after our assembly our parents and family got to come and have snacks and look at our projects!”

Lewis said “I like practising for our assembly. I liked being on stage and rehearsing my lines!”

Rhian said “I enjoyed singing the Boudicca song and really liked acting out all of the lyrics!”

For all of our hard work and dedication we even earned Cool Class Cup! We look forward to celebrating our win this Friday afternoon! We hope we can win again!

Yesterday we had fun making and designing Valentine’s Day cards! We hope you had an amazing day filled with love and happiness

This Thursday and Friday we worked hard at writing a set of instructions all about how to make your own slime.

Nathan said “I enjoyed writing the instructions and also watching a video clip showing me how to do it step by step.”

Malinka said “We all agreed that Miss Kirkland would take 3 random jotters and try to make slime by following exactly their step by step instructions. If the slime works out the people who wrote the instructions will get to keep their slime!”

We will let you know next week who the winners and star writers are! Fingers crossed.