On Friday, the PSA and House and Vice Captains organised a coin trail for money week and to raise money for school funds.
Longest line winners:
Total raised:
Total: £492.69
A big thank you to the PSA for counting the coins!
We are learning to explore the use of coordinates to plot points and describe positions and movements on a grid.
Success Criteria:
Primary 7 have been learning to work with coordinates. We have been working on drawing grids accurately then plotting points for our partner to identify. We have also been identifying the coordinates of shapes and creating our own shapes. We will continue with our coordinate challenges this week.
We have had a busy week in our new nursery embedding numeracy in to our play activities. During snack the children have been paying attention to how many food items they have to take and during the preparation they have been discussing cutting things in half! Here are the grapes being cut in half.
“It makes one grape in to two grapes!”
We have been using our new Promethean board to play interactive games. We have been counting objects up to 10, but some of us can count much higher than that!!
On Thursday we went on a number hunt in the nursery. The numbers were hiding behind QR codes and we had to use the ipads to read the code and find the number. Once Mrs Murray had taught some of the children how to do it, they were able to teach their friends!!
Outside in the garden the children were ordering our number mats as they jumped. We have to check that we have 8 trikes parked at the end of the day and the children have been counting how many potatoes they had harvested and how many peas were in a pod! What a busy week!
To finish our focus on Maths Week Scotland the House and Vice Captains and PSA organise a coin trail competition for our Houses.
A big thank you to all who donated to this event, we will announce the results on Wednesday.
P2 have been very busy this week learning to gather, display and interpret information related to our IDL context of Dinosaurs.
Success Criteria
We discussed what question we wanted to ask, and how we could best gather the information.
We decided to find out what P2’s favourite dinosaur is. We thought that creating a Tally chart would be a good way to gather and display the information.
This is what we found –
We were then able to look at, and comment on the results.
In our Dino Discovery Teams, we were developing our research skills this week too.
As part of this, we began to learn about the size of different dinosaurs. We soon discovered that although some dinosaurs were quite small, some were huge! We were particularly interested in the length of them. We noticed that the lengths were given in metres, so we had a look at a metre stick that happened to be in the Maths area, and we used it very successfully to work out that a Stegosaurus would only just fit into our classroom!
We think we’ll have to find more metre sticks now, and go outside next week to measure the lengths of other longer dinosaurs!
We are learning to sort and display information in different ways
Success Criteria:
This week, Primary 3 have been learning how to sort and display different types of data linked to their IDL context, Dinosaurs.
We learned what tally marks, pictograms, block charts and frequency tables were and looked at how they could be used to show information about our favourite dinosaurs. We created a class tally chart which we then changed into a pictogram and asked each other questions about the ‘most popular,’ ‘least popular’ and ‘difference between’ the information displayed. We also created our own pictograms and tally charts.
Primary 3 also took part in Sumdog’s Maths Week Scotland contest, developing our mental maths skills while having fun playing all of the different games.
This week Primary 4 collected data using our IDL context of Dinosaurs. We decided that it would be fun to find out the favourite dinosaur at Mid Calder Primary School.
Each Dino Data Group visited a different class to collect and record their data. We then looked at the data as a class to interpret our findings.
The most popular dinosaur at Mid Calder Primary School was the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the least popular dinosaur was the Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus.
FIRST LEVEL INDICATORS:
LI: We are learning to sort, collect and display information.
We are learning about tally charts and pictographs.
SC: I can talk about my favourite toy and ask others about their favourite toy.
I can say what type of toy I have and record it in the form of a tally mark.
I can contrast and compare our favourite toy results with the P7’s favourite toys.
I can answer questions about the information that I have collected and displayed.
This week P1P have been learning how to gather and display information. During our Maths inputs we have developed an understanding of tally marks and have began to explore and use pictographs through a variety of practical, written and digital activities. We have also been able to use our new knowledge during our Toy Story IDL lessons to create a tally chart to show P1’s and P7’s favourite type of toy. It was really interesting to compare both the results and find out that both P1 and P7 had the same favourite… ‘cuddly toys’.
Maths has been our main focus this week in P5a. We have been learning all about position and direction. At the start of the week we got out our Atlases during IDL, where we had to locate where the Rainforests were in the world. We used our knowledge about using a non-fiction book to help us locate this information in the Atlas. One of the children spoke about co-ordinates and was able to explain to the others what a co-ordinate was, the other children were then challenged to find a main airport and provide the co-ordinate for it.
We then started to think about the language that we could use to give someone directions, what the children came up with was amazing, things such as; co-0rdinates, 360, 180 and 90 degrees, clockwise, anti-clockwise, full, 1/2 and 1/4 turn, left and right, backwards and forwards and the 8 compass points. We used our new language skills to write direction of how to get from one point of a map to another. We took our learning outside and we had to direct each other from different points in the playground using all the language that we had learned. We quickly learned that when blind folded we were unsure as to what direction N,E,S and W was and we had to change our language, we all had great fun.
We have also been learning how to ask good questions in maths. Miss Anderson and the children had to use their questioning skills to find out what the number was and the only answer could be yes or no. Some of the good questions that were asked were:
Is it an odd/even number?
Does it have 2/3/4 digits?
Is it a prime number?
Is it a multiple of?
The children were then given the opportunity to work with a partner and get them to ‘guess’ the number. This is a great game that can be played at home to improve questioning skills.
Hope you all have a fantastic September weekend.
Miss Anderson
