St Bartholomew's Class Blog

In Primary 5/6 the children created some fantastic personal projects on our topic on Space. They presented them to the class through a 2 minute talk. Well done!

Today we celebrated World Book Day a week later! The children dressed up as their favourite book character. Our class winner was the scarecrow from the book Wizard of Oz.

Here we are looking at materials in science. We are making our own paper. Everyone tore up the paper from our paper bin into tiny pieces, then we  added them to a pot of warm water and mushed the paper up. It turned into pulp. We then made our own paper and we are going to use it as a painting canvas when it isn’t dry…..we will photograph our final results.

Zoo lab came to visit us this week. Some very interesting creatures were introduced to us… we loved it!

At library time, we read a book by one of our favourite authors,  Nick Sharratt. It was very, very funny and we were all giggling and laughing. We read it again it was so much fun. You might have seen our tweet about it, Nick Sharratt did and he sen5 us a reply! We loooove books. We are all still borrowing books from our class library and everyone has their favourites.

In science we have been exploring materials. We made clay bowls to see how the clay could be changed by using a force, we painted them and gave them to our mum for Valentine’s Day.

We also used a variety of materials to create a house. We thought they were brilliant, but would not keep the wind or rain out!

We’ve had a very busy few weeks in Primary 5/6.

We have been learning to write explanations during story writing.

We made pictures of Ed of the solar system using chalk pastels.

We have been using our problem solving skills in The Stem Zone this week.

This week we have been learning about using our skills and talents to help others. This is us doing God’s work on earth. We made a beautiful tree with our hand prints to show how we can use our hands to do God’s work.  

Here are some of the book covers we designed at home for part of our January homework challenge. We talked about the books we have read and some people in our class would like to read them too.

At literacy time, we are learning to write a dictated sentence and to use our new phonemes. We are getting quite confident with this.

At paired reading time, we took part in the reading challenge with our buddies. We can look at our reading challenge sheet and try to find a particular book, like a book with a one word title or a book about space.  

For science day this week, we looked at different materials and what they would be used for. We worked in a team to create a shelter that was warm, dry and safe. We used a variety of materials. Also we had to design a raft that would sail in our water tray. It had to be waterproof! We worked with a partner and made some interesting boats.

In ICT, we are learning to use WORD to type and change a sentence. In maths, we are learning to take away 2. This means 2 less. We can jump back on a number trakc to take away 2.

Here we are making and playing with our rainbow sticks. We made them when learning the colours in Spanish and Sign Language. We are also practicing our take away skills in many different ways – using spinners and creating our own take away stories, doing word problems on the ipads and using the number cards to practice taking away 1.

We love the play area, we like to make and be creative. this week we also made our own snow and we played with the oobleck which acts like a solid and a liquid.

In ICT, we learned more about everything being made of atoms by looking at pointillism. We created our own dotty pictures, practicing our click and drag skills too. You can also see our ice balloons where we explored freezing and melting and how we did a quiz to show how much we had learned.

In literacy time, we have lots of different activities going on in our quiet working class. We do some spelling and story tasks on the ipads, our favourite is Read Me because we get to listen to and read along with new books. We also play sound games and are learning to use a dictionary too. You can also see our Star Writers.