On Saturday night, some of the pupils from Primary 1-3 braved the weather to come and sing some of their nativity songs at the Kirk of Calder Parish Church. They sounded fantastic and there was a real sense of community spirit shown by the number of people who came along to attend the service and to support them.
This morning P1-7 enjoyed a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk from Hopscotch Theatre.
This week MCPS had their Christmas Lunch. We were lucky enough to have a team of Primary 7s serve us our lunch, and our teachers joined us wearing their Christmas jumper. Some children commented that is was ‘The best lunch ever!’. A big thank you to Mrs Ritchie in the office and all the dinner ladies for organising our Christmas lunch.
LI: We are learning about primary sources of evidence.
SC: I can describe some ways that we find out about life in the past.
LI: We are learning to compare toys in the past to toys in the present.
SC: I can identify things which are the same and things which are different about toys in the past compared to toys in the present using primary sources.
Today, both Primary 1 classes enjoyed a visit from a member of West Lothian’s Museum Services. She brought a range of old baby and children’s toys for us to analyse, including a teddy bear, a humming top, a whip and peerie and a rolling hoop. As we learned about the old toys, we compared them to the toys which we like to play with today in order to identify similarities and differences. For example, we identified that some of the very old toys were made from metal, wood and paper mache, and weren’t very colourful. However, most of our toys are made from colourful plastic. One similarity that we all agreed on was that all of the old toys and our own toys are great fun! We especially enjoyed playing with the cup and ball, whizzer and wooden acrobat.
This week we have been shopping in the Toyshop.
LI We are learning to use coins to buy things
SC I can say how much each item costs I can choose the correct coins to pay for the things I buy
There are lots of things to buy in the toyshop. We choose what we would like and put it into our
shopping basket.
The shopkeeper checks the price and tells us how much we need to pay. We look in the purse and choose the coins we need. The shopkeeper puts the money in the till. We are using real coins to do our shopping!
Einartas – ‘You need money to buy the car. That’s my favourite.’
Aidan – ‘At the shop I bought an aeroplane and a car. The shopkeeper said it was 6p, so I counted out six 1p coins.’
Naomi – ‘You need 10p to buy the doll and the dinosaur.’
Daisy – ‘I went to the shop and I bought a dolly and a toy giraffe. It cost 2p and 3p, so that was 5p altogether.’
LI: We are learning how to display information on a bar graph.
SC: I can identify the title, x axis, y axis and labels on a bar graph.
LI: We are learning a how to interpret information on a bar graph.
SC: I can analyse information on a bar graph using the y axis to help me.
Through the context of our Toys topic, Primary 1b have been learning about different ways to collect, sort and display information.
We have:
– Carried out surveys, recording our results with tally marks;
– Sorted our toys and other information on Venn Diagrams using our own and given criteria; and
– Displayed information about our favourite toys on a block graph.
On Friday, we learned about bar graphs. We created a copy of the block graph which we made on Monday, to allow us to transform it into a bar graph. First we drew around the outline of each tower of blocks, and imagined that we were melting blocks of chocolate into long bars of chocolate.
Then we realised that we could no longer count how many people voted for each toy. After some brainstorming, Oscar suggested that we needed to put numbers on our graph. That’s when we learned about the purpose of the y axis.
We used our bar graph to answer interpretation questions. Amorie analysed the bar graph and told everyone that dolls were the most popular toy, and Isla MacKinnon told everyone that construction toys were the least popular.
Finally we applied what we had learned in order to interpret a variety of other bar graphs online.
Today Linhouse celebrated winning the Term 1 house cup by organising a movie themed party. Everyone in the house dressed up as a character from the movie and had a celebration in the hall, which included games, dancing, a chocolate fountain and crushed ice drinks. A big well done to Callum and Romany for organising the party, and to the P7 helpers who helped served the food and organise the games. Also a big thank you to Mrs Bokhari who helped serve the food tidy up after.
Congratulations to Linhouse!
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