St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Primary 2/3 were soo excited to visit the Stem zone :D!!

Firstly, we began working in our pairs or trios to look at what different materials were inside our box. We then began to organise our materials by size, shape and colour.

After this we began to create a lot of different models. Sometimes we worked individually to create a model and other times we worked together as a team.

The models we created were fantastic! Some of them had lots of different movements – they could, spin, roll and even sway side to side like a seesaw.

We really enjoyed our time at the Stem zone using our super skills to create lots of different models.

We can’t wait to go back!!

This week, we really enjoyed paired reading with primary 6, it was great to have the big children helping us with our reading skills and the new books are beautiful!

If if you pass by our classroom, you will see our wall display of the work we have done looking at old and new teddy bears. We are very proud of our skills.

In the Digital Learning zone this week, we worked on Glow, next week our teacher will have some new activities for us so we are looking forward to that.

Some of us were writing our own stories during literacy time this week using a word mat. Our teacher was sooooo impressed with us. We wrote these without any adult help at all. Amazing!

You can also see how well we are doing when we are practicing our spelling.

On Thursday our teacher was thrilled when we knew all of these words!

We are also trying very hard to make our capital letters the correct size……we think we’ve got it.

Finally, this week we have been reading The great pet sale, and doing some money work from it. Here we are ordering the coins.

Here is the primary 1 wall display for the library. We read the book “The owl who was afraid of the dark” then we wrote a book review.  It is a great book to read. Our teacher also downloaded a link to our dojo site and we were able to watch and listen to the story at home! Fantastic. Then, afterwards at art time, we worked with a partner to create a collage owl using torn strips of paper. This was a tricky skill but working as a team helped us finish with fabulous results.

Each week, we like to talk about what we have learned and what we would like to know. We record this on our 3,2,1, poster on our smart board.

This helps our teacher plan our next set of learning experiences. Our teacher also asks our opinion….what helped us learn, what could she have done differently to help us with tricky work and we are always trying to think of ways to learn and achieve.

This week we also looked at our Learning Journey folders and shared what we had been leaning with our classmates. We also looked back at some work from August and we were surprised by how much we have learned.

Our new topic is now in full flow and this week we were learning about the wax seals used by nobles when sending letters.  We have now began to create our own personal wax seal. We began by looking at examples of wax seals before discussing some of the features these had.  The next stage was to create our own design based on what we had discussed in our lesson. We did this by designing it in our jotters which we then used when creating our clay moulds.

We did this by rolling out a piece of clay and used bottle lids to create the round shape we required. After this we used cocktail sticks to add our design to the clay. Once the clay moulds are dry we will use these to create our own wax seals in class.

In other news the homework projects were due in this week and I am pleased to say they all look fantastic and I cannot wait to hear the pupil’s talks next week. Have a great couple of days off and we will see you back on Thursday.

Mr Walsh

What an exciting start to the week for Primary 2/3 as our class pets arrived yesterday!

Firstly the fish were kept in their bag and placed into the tank to allow them to climatise to their new environment.

But it wasn’t long until they were swimming around and exploring their new home :D!!